The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee has just announced the launch of an inquiry into peer review, and is inviting evidence on “the operation and effectiveness of the peer review process used to examine and validate scient…
11 October: The future of scholarly publishing – where do we go from here? This event has now taken place; a report from the meeting can be found below. An informative blog from Christina Costa (University of Salford) can also be found here.…
Anyone reading this blog is likely to agree that we are at the beginning of potentially the most exciting, creative and fruitful period in the history of science.…
I’m a fan of peer review. There, I’ve said it. And I’m not saying it in the way that Sir Winston Churchill famously spoke of democracy; “the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.”…
This new guide provides researchers with an understanding of how peer review works and highlights some of the issues surround the current debates about the peer review process.…
Peer review is both a principle and a set of mechanisms at the heart of the arrangements for evaluating and assuring the quality of research.…
Interactive publications are cool, really cool.…
Sense About Science held a workshop on peer review in collaboration with the Research Information Network, Vitae, Elsevier and the Voice of Young Science.…
One of the most interesting presentations at the Wiley-Blackwell executive seminar last Friday was one from Tracey Brown, the Director of Sense About Science, an independent charitable trust promoting good science and evidence in public debates.…
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