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Recently, I had the pleasure of finally meeting Cameron Neylon , probably the leading - and certainly most articulate - exponent of open sci...

Another splendid piece from Cameron Neylon calling into question the value of traditional peer review: Whatever value it might have we larg...

If this participation thing is so great, why don't we apply it to something really important, like medicine? Why not, indeed ? Welcome ...

One of the more laughable reasons that traditional science publishers cite in their attempts to rubbish open access is that it's somehow...

One of the most eloquent proponents of the idea of open science is Cameron Neylon. Here's an interesting post about bringing peer revi...

I've written before about Rice University's Connexions platform and programme, which aims to make courseware freely available for a...

Here's a paradigmatic tale : The editors who were fired or resigned over the editorial-independence controversy at the Canadian Medical ...

One door opens , another door closes: Nature has decided to bin its open peer review experiment: Despite the significant interest in the tr...

One of the things that continues to amaze me about blogs is the quality of some of the writing. A case in point is this fantastic essay by...

User-generated sites are becoming increasingly accepted as a viable way of creating information and even money. But there's a huge prob...

I almost had to pinch myself for this one: the US Patent and Trademark Office has apparently created a partnership with academia and the pri...

Last week, Wendy Grossman wrote a wise article about how all those making a fuss over Wikipedia's inaccuracies and lack of accountabili...

A piece that writes very positively about open access's future quotes a survey from the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evalua...