by jordicabot | Aug 14, 2013 | doing research, presenting, publishing, Research Rants
As a researcher you want to reach as many people as possible. For sure, open access would help by making sure everybody that wants to read of your papers can, but before anybody tries to read one of your papers s/he has to find it first. This is not a problem for your...
by jordicabot | Jul 5, 2013 | publishing, Research Rants
I have my own personal list of fake conferences (or cleary “for profit” conferences, i.e. conferences where the organizers have as primary goal to make money regardless of the scientific aspect). I do my best to educate my team about how to identify these...
by jordicabot | Jun 14, 2013 | doing research, publishing, Research Rants
These last days I’ve been following the twitter campaign #negativeresults to promote the publication of negative results. In the end, negative results are also results and could save the time of many other fellow researchers wasting their lives doing experiments...
by jordicabot | May 22, 2013 | doing research, publishing, Research Rants, tools
The push for open access publications should not deviate our attention from an even (IMHO) bigger problem: open science. We can easily skip paywalls by making the pdfs of all our publications available for free in our home page (and now most of our journals grant you...
by jordicabot | Nov 14, 2012 | publishing, Research Rants, teaching, writing
When I complained about the economics of the book business (see Selling my own book: my royalties are less than what I get with the Amazon Affiliate program ) the most common comment I got that we should have self-published our book instead of using in a well-known...
by jordicabot | Sep 27, 2012 | publishing, Research Rants, writing
What does a camera has to do with this? And who is the author of this blog post? Well, just keep reading and you’ll understand. If you have developed an academic career, you have probably heard that signing of research papers is usually a controversial issue....