Stephen Curry on Statistical Illiteracy
This is a slide from Ian Mulvany's slide deck on 'publishing and funding', which made me smile. You can find the entire deck here.
Tag Archives: Stephen Curry
This is a slide from Ian Mulvany's slide deck on 'publishing and funding', which made me smile. You can find the entire deck here.
Open access: MPs slam research policy
Academia's best bet is a green open access route to a gold future, says Stephen Curry, in his digest of latest BIS (UK Department of Business, Innovation and Skills) report.The Guardian Blog: The Higher Education. See Stephen Curry's Blog here and an Euroscientists-Interview with Stephen Curry here.
Debating Open Access
By now, this blog post by Stephen Curry has become a vivid discussion area. Look up all the comments and you get a glimps into the up-to-date field of pros and cons on open access.Impact Factors — the revised RCUK open access guidelines
Stephen Curry on the revised RCUK open access guidelines.Open access for the people
From April 1st this year anyone in receipt of public funding from one of the UK research councils will be required to publish their findings by an open access route. The new policy is causing an almighty row, with researchers complaining about the cost, humanities scholars railing against an agenda set by scientists, publishers and learned societies fretting about lost of income and the House of Lords criticising the haste with which the new rules have been brought into play.Stephen Curry for The Guardian.
Impact Factors — Letter to RCUK
Following my post of last week asking RCUK to include in the guidelines on their new open access policy a statement disavowing the use of impact factors in assessing funding applications, I wanted to thank everyone who registered their support. I also wanted to provide the text of the letter that was sent yesterday to Alexandra Saxon, RCUK’s Head of Communications. All the signatories are listed below.Stephen Curry’s Blog.
Royal Society Meeting on Open Access in the UK: What Willetts Wants
Stephen Curry on the last meeting of the Royal Society on open access. Follow also the discussion.IT WAS A VERY BIG YEAR, I THINK, FOR OPEN ACCESS
Stephen Curry, professor for biophysics at Imperial College, London and open access advocate, in an interview with Katherine Powell, currently studying an MSc in Science Communication and one of the editors of Refractive Index, a bog on science communication, Imperial College London.Open access and editorial quality – National Union of Journalists (NUJ) event
An invitation to an open panel discussion organised by the National Union of Journalists and hosted by The Wellcome Trust.The event will take place on Wednesday 6 February at 7pm in London.The venue is The Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
Announced speakers are amongst others Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Professor Stephen Curry, Imperial College and open access blogger.
We need to talk about open access
We need to talk about open accessBut the duty of implementation falls not only to librarians. Researchers are just as responsible for making OA work but, unfortunately, many have yet to pick up this issue with serious intent. They are too busy and too inured to traditional modes of operation (and impact factors). But we need to talk to more of them so that this issue can break out of library committees and out of the blogosphere. Ideas for how to do that are most welcome.
Stephen Curry.
Open Access: Where are we going?
Open Access: Where are we going?Stephen Curry, professor at the Imperial College, London, on the future steps towards open access during a talk at the Research Libraries (RLUK) Conference, Newcastle, UK.
See also the video.
Open-Science Roller Coaster Accelerates
Open-Science Roller Coaster AcceleratesDavid Dobbs, author and writer, supports Stephen Curry’s assessment published in the Guardian (see post below) on how open access is speeding up.
Sick of impact factors
Sick of impact factorsThis blog post by Stephen Curry reveals the difficulties that still remain for publishing in open access due to the impact factor.
UK plan for open access to research is a golden opportunity, not a cost
UK plan for open access to research is a golden opportunity, not a costStephen Curry on the costs of research referring to all reports recently published on opening up science.
Expanding access to research publications
Expanding access to research publicationsUK: Further steps towards full open access environment.
The report of the Working Group chaired by Dame Janet Finch published on 18 June recommends a programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research. Better, faster communication of research results will bring benefits for public services and for economic growth.
See also articles by The Guardian and Reuters and comments by Cameron Neylon and Stephen Curry.
An Open Letter on Open Access to UK Research Councils
An Open Letter on Open Access to UK Research CouncilsHere is an open letter on open access by Stephen Curry.