Reality Remains Stubborn
Money remains a concern for arXiv, while ACS finds a way to make some green from Green
Kent Anderson
Einstein, Preprints, & the Press
Einstein cut off a collaborator for releasing information early to the press
Friday Song: “It’s My Life”
Bon Jovi delivers joy and rebellion in a minor key, with talk box and references aplenty.
A Pseudoscience Pseudo-Preprint
PsyRxiv fails to screen out the most basic qualification for a preprint.
“Fair” Pricing Is a Euphemism
cOAlition S spends more to get a lousy Excel spreadsheet and euphemisms concealing an elitist program of top-down uniformity
Octopus Is Ridiculous
Spending £650,000 of taxpayer funds to generate 3 research results? Misleading users about authorship? Disabling scraping and copy/paste? Yes, Octopus is ridiculous.
Friday Song: “Dear Insecurity”
A haunting song first heard live in one of the greatest concert venues on Earth? Yes, please!
cOAlition S Keeps Spending
With rampant spending increases, cOAlition S still believes it can lecture the world on what publishing costs
Ignorance of Nature Isn't Evidence
Invoking brands to argue they don't matter is nonsensical, and remaining ignorant of evidence is even worse
Self-citation at MDPI and Frontiers
Are MDPI and Frontiers using "special issues" to load citations into their portfolios?