deskthority

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013 ... CMP=twt_fd

Easier when you already have a Nobel prize XD

Everyone gets one of those. My dog has a nobel peace prize.

I had to laugh when I heard Obama got one shortly after being elected American President. He hadn't done anything yet! I guess the idea was to honour Martin Luther King's legacy, but with the speed it came, it felt a bit like an award for being anyone but George W.

Why not release everything in the web?

Seriously, we have 2013 and don't want to walk into the library to dig out the latest sci-fy papers!

7bit wrote:Why not release everything in the web?

Seriously, we have 2013 and don't want to walk into the library to dig out the latest sci-fy papers!

I believe the problem is the peer-reviewing aspect.

For instance, we have arxiv for 'exact sciences' papers, but which ones are actually good?

In my opinion it should be mandatory to publish every result / paper which comes from a publicly funded research project under a bsd style license. And make it freely available.
This of course doesn't hinder anyone to publish it in journal as well.

Yes, but then journals would not want to publish. They make a *lot* of money. The system is all wrong.

As I understand, Dr Schekman's point has in fact not a lot to do with the open access movement. What he says is that these journals basically pick their articles too much by popularity instead of scientific value.

webwit wrote:Everyone gets one of those. My dog has a nobel peace prize.

But does it have a Nobel prize in physiology or medicine? Because that's what the man in question has been awarded, contrary to some early reports.

Who cares? The Nobel prize is corrupted and kaput. They did it all to themselves.

I bet your dog got the Nobel prize for promising to stop biting at children, within the next 4 years, or so.

He got it for killing other dogs, which he does when he suspects there is a bad dog in the vicinity. He's a peacemaker.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mid ... story.html

Ah, I see. Killing the 13, for one and all times, should be worth a Nobel price.

"Pre-emptive Peacemaking." They changed the name after Bush and Blair gave "Liberal Interventionism" a bad rep.

This is why I left academics to work for the industry. It's just bullshit which is paid worse on top of it.