Science Commons presentation on PLoS ONE and Article-Level Metrics

On Feb 20th, Microsoft hosted a “Science Commons Symposium” at their HQ in Redmond, WA. It was a great line up of speakers, and I was honored to be among them with an invitation to talk about PLoS ONE and our article-level metrics program.
Several people blogged about the meeting, and Brian Glanz provided an excellent [...]

Article Level Metrics presentation to Berkeley and UCSF

A few weeks ago I had the chance to present the PLoS Article Level Metrics program to audiences at both Berkeley and UCSF (via a simulcast). The organisers allowed me to devote a full hour to our program, and as a result this is the most detailed presentation that we have made on ALMs to [...]

Let’s Have An Awesome Time Publishing Science

On Friday last week I had the opportunity to present PLoS ONE (and, to some extent, PLoS) to a conference at UCSF called “Let’s Have an Awesome Time Doing Science”. The conference was an interesting blend of ‘regular’ conference and unconference, and from what I saw it worked out very well.
The powerpoint and synced audio [...]

Re-engineering the Scientific Journal

The inaugural meeting of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) was held in Lund University a couple of weeks ago. Audio, video and slides were recorded for all presentations and the entire conference is now freely available at the OASPA Web Site.
Of particular relevance to PLoS ONE is the presentation by Mark Patterson [...]

PLoS on Internet TV – Open Access and Scientific Publishing

Last week I had the opportunity to appear, with Jason Hoyt of Mendeley, in episode 14 of The Science Hour with Kirsten Sanford (Dr Kiki) and Leo Laporte (on Leo’s twit.tv site).
The discussion lasted about an hour and tackled various aspects of academic publishing in the internet era, open science, open access, how academics are [...]

The Future of Online Publishing (Presentation to ISMTE)

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to give a presentation entitled “The Future of Online Publishing” to the ISMTE (a professional body for Managing Editors of academic journals).
The talk is directed at an audience of people who think about journals from the publishing side of the business, but I think it will [...]