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Jacob, This is a known thing in other circles - see e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6590 "Extending ArXiv.org to Achieve Open Peer Review and Publishing Axel Boldt (Submitted on 23 Nov 2010) Today's peer review process for scientific articles is unnecessarily opaque and

Re: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

I don't fully understand the cynicism in the response, unless it is simply the outpouring from years of painstaking review work for no monetary reward in a very broken publication system. Everybody I have talked to thinks the system is terrible, and various solutions have been proposed. One of

[ccp4bb] Postdoc position at University of Oxford: structural biology of unconventional kinetochore proteins in trypanosomes

A postdoc position is available in my group at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. We are seeking to appoint an outstanding individual with PhD training in structural biology to reveal the function of unconventional kinetochore proteins in Trypanosoma brucei, the causative

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...that some papers get waived through isn't all that uncommon already, especially with Nature. j Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Im Auftrag von Vellieux Frédéric Gesendet: Samstag, 30. Juni 2018 12:23 An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb]

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

sorry about the typing error. 2 x 200 = 400, i know. j -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Im Auftrag von Hughes, Jon Gesendet: Samstag, 30. Juni 2018 12:13 An: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Betreff: [ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] Oxford University

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"how to get grants without papers in Nature. anyone have a solution to that one?" Simple: Once all of us have reviewed enough papers (with the money placed in a common pot) we simply buy the Nature Publishing Group. All those having taken part get a Nature paper every 4 years to ensure grant

[ccp4bb] AW: [ccp4bb] [ccp4bb] Oxford University Press

great idea! 2 hours at €200 per hour makes €1000 - sounds like an eminently reasonable starting point for negotiations. if the publishers don't like our price, they can do the reviewing themselves - and after a while no one will bother to buy the resulting rubbish anyhow! in the mean time we