Comments on: The threat to science publishing http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2009/08/24/the-threat-to-science-publishing/ Our aim is to promote accurate, evidence-based reporting on science and technology by helping the media work more closely with the scientific community. Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:19:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: On electric fish, molecules and behaviour | Building Blogs of Science http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2009/08/24/the-threat-to-science-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-17052 On electric fish, molecules and behaviour | Building Blogs of Science Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:19:24 +0000 http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/?p=3663#comment-17052 [...] Stod­dard and Zakon that was pub­lished in PLoS Biol­ogy 7(9): e1000203 thanks to the magic of Open Access. (Or you can read the briefer com­men­tary by For­tune and Chacron [...] [...] Stod­dard and Zakon that was pub­lished in PLoS Biol­ogy 7(9): e1000203 thanks to the magic of Open Access. (Or you can read the briefer com­men­tary by For­tune and Chacron [...]

]]> By: On electric fish, molecules and behaviour « Building Blogs of Science http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2009/08/24/the-threat-to-science-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-16926 On electric fish, molecules and behaviour « Building Blogs of Science Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:19:34 +0000 http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/?p=3663#comment-16926 [...] Stoddard and Zakon that was published in PLoS Biology 7(9): e1000203 thanks to the magic of Open Access. (Or you can read the briefer commentary by Fortune and Chacron [...] [...] Stoddard and Zakon that was published in PLoS Biology 7(9): e1000203 thanks to the magic of Open Access. (Or you can read the briefer commentary by Fortune and Chacron [...]

]]> By: Fabiana Kubke http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2009/08/24/the-threat-to-science-publishing/comment-page-1/#comment-12756 Fabiana Kubke Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:14:29 +0000 http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/?p=3663#comment-12756 This is a great post, thank you for providing such a well balanced view of the issue. A list of OA mandates for different countries can be found here: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/. The list is interesting in that NZ has a single open access mandate associated with theses at the University of Canterbury, and no mandates from the Funding bodies. (directed to this by Peter Suber) As for the role of impact factor in career development, a recent statement was made by the International Respiratory Journal Editors (behind a paywall: http://ajrcmb.atsjournals.org/cgi/content/full/41/2/127) that "the impact factor calculated for individual journals should not be used as a basis for evaluating the significance of an individual scientist's past performance or scientific potential". (link via Peter Binfield /Bora Zivkovic) This is a great post, thank you for providing such a well balanced view of the issue.

A list of OA mandates for different countries can be found here: http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/. The list is interesting in that NZ has a single open access mandate associated with theses at the University of Canterbury, and no mandates from the Funding bodies. (directed to this by Peter Suber)

As for the role of impact factor in career development, a recent statement was made by the International Respiratory Journal Editors (behind a paywall: http://ajrcmb.atsjournals.org/cgi/content/full/41/2/127) that “the impact factor calculated for individual journals should not be used as a basis for evaluating the significance of an individual scientist’s past performance or scientific potential”. (link via Peter Binfield /Bora Zivkovic)

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