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Let's help academic publishers in their quest to put themselves out of business!
These past few years, scholarly publishing has seen some remarkably self-destructive moves by corporate publishers. Spear-heading the self-destructive campaign is, of course, Elsevier (aka....
View ArticlePublishers successfully lobbying UK Lords committee?
Today, the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Committee released their report on the new RCUK open access policy. Commenting on the report, the chairman of the committee, Lord Krebs, said: The...
View ArticleTwo awesome videos on fly neuroscience
The first one is a TED talk by Michael Dickinson on how flies fly:and the second one is on recording from fly visual neurons during flight and non-flight. This one was done in CalTech where Michael...
View ArticleHow scholarly publishers could save themselves (but likely won't)
Scholarly publishers feel the heat, frantically struggling to preserve their threatened business model. More and more it seems they may be going the way of the music industry into irrelevance, when it...
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Libraries band together to take over scholarly publishing
Well, at least this is what I'd like to read into this latest development, the formation of the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC). Given my frequent arguments on how libraries should take over...
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Elsevier changes strategy and buys Mendeley instead of shutting it down
The recent acquisition of popular reference manager Mendeley (I'm a Mendeley user myself) apparently only was a consequential step for publishing giant Elsevier, according to Mendeley insider Jason...
View ArticleWhat will Elsevier do with Mendeley's usage data?
There is a flood of commentary covering the sale of Mendeley to Elsevieer. However, only a few posts have bemoaned the sale of Mendeley's usage data to Elsevier. So perhaps now is a good time to...
View ArticlePostdoctoral opportunity in our lab
The successful candidate will conduct research on the neurobiology of spontaneous behavior and operant learning using Drosophila as a neurogenetic model organism. Methods will include...
View ArticleJournal rank alive and well at DFG site visit
I spent the past two days in Cologne on a site visit for a a large collaborative research center. I sat on a panel of 10 reviewers who reviewed a total of 18 grant proposals. The DFG asked us to not...
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Time to pack up and move
Mike Taylor kept complaining about this wonderful e107 content management system that I have used for over ten years on various sites. Now, I've finally done it: I've moved to a new host, copied the...
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