Colper Science

We just released a new podcast episode on research in the open with Monica Granados:
http://blog.colperscience.com/2017/07/13/mganados-open-science-projects/

Working in the open and using it to do public good with Monica Granados In this episode we interviewed Monica Granados, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph & Wildlife Conservation Society Canada. Monica explained how she was introduced to open science and how practicing in the open helped her advance her projects. She is developing a mobile app with Ja...

We had an interview with K.Jane Burpee on Open Access and New Methods of Scholarly Communications. Here is a part of the interview where Jane explains how researchers can help the movement by making their articles accessible to the public (Green Open Access).

How Researchers Can Help the Open Access Movement - Interview with Jane Burpee Colper Science had an interview with Jane Burpee, associate librarian at McGill University, on the subject of "Open Access and Non-Traditional Scholarly Comm...

Working on the sound editing of Bastian Greshake interview on his project. The episode will be out on Thursday 15 June on our podcast channel (blog.colperscience.com). I miss Adobe Audition interface but Audacity is powerful and .

We just released the second episode of our podcast on open science. In this episode, Jane Burpee, an associate librarian at McGill University, talks about open access publishing and also an article she co-authored on non-traditional scholarly communications:
http://blog.colperscience.com/

Colper Science A podcast about science and open science.

Transparent/open peer review might be the solution!
What do you think?

https://qz.com/978037/china-publishes-more-science-research-with-fabricated-peer-review-than-everyone-else-put-together/

China publishes more science research with fabricated peer-review than everyone else put together It's hard to believe how "far ahead" China is on this front until you see it with your own eyes.

The university of Montreal refused to pay the Big Deal proposed by Taylor & Francis Group.
http://www.bib.umontreal.ca/communiques/20170504-DC-annulation-taylor-francis-va.htm #.WQwZgYZv65c.twitter

Communiqué - UdeM Libraries cancel Big Deal subscription to 2,231 periodical titles published by Taylor & Francis Group - Bibliothèques - Université de Montréal , Université de Montréal Libraries have been forced to unbundle the “Big Deal” periodicals package with the publisher, as its usefulness is not worth the approximately US $500,000 per year demanded to access it. Our consultation of the UdeM community has shown only a fifth of the package (480 titles...

Unpaywall finds the version of the articles. It doesn't work for all the articles but can be handy!

https://www.nature.com/news/unpaywall-finds-free-versions-of-paywalled-papers-1.21765

Unpaywall finds free versions of paywalled papers New tool joins a growing collection of software for accessing fee-for-view scientific literature.

Maybe it's the time to go towards open and transparent peer review.

How to Fix Peer Review It's often accused of being slow (sometimes taking months), inefficient, biased and open to abuse

On how scientific news in media can be misleading. Very funny and straight to the point!

Scientific Studies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscri...

Our webinar on the scientific publishing issues and an introduction to the Colper Science project.
https://youtu.be/GfpAkE52dpA