There is a fun paper in this months Physical Review E (that’s the one that covers “Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics”)…

A very quick post to let you know that I will be speaking on a panel discussion at the Euroscience Open Forum…

I cycle to work, which is no great surprise since I’m based in the Cambridge office, and it takes me about half…

Every day the UK newspaper The Guardian does a quirky little third editorial entitled “In praise of…” Previous subjects have been Tintin…

This is a bit more on the ongoing interest of Nature in PLoS’s finances. Peter Suber posted this snippet from the CEO…

If any of you have been wondering why commenting on Nature’s NewsBlog concerning PLoS’s finances came to an abrupt halt recently we…

Open Access isn’t just about making the literature free to read but also making it available for reuse. That’s why all PLoS…

I’m a great fan of JD ‘Illiad’ Fraser’s strip cartoon “User Friendly”. It charts the trials and tribulations of the workers at…

I’d like to draw some attention to a couple of papers that form a Debate on Open Access in the Journal of…

I’ve been a bit slow noticing this article, but two weeks ago PLoS Biology published a piece on its community page entitled…

It’s been a hard week this week and I’m clearly going a bit stir crazy. So you can put this post down…

Sorry for the slight hiatus in blog posts. Things have been a bit lively in the office the last couple of days…