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I was working in academia back in 2002 and I remember talking about this crazy open access thing, and blogs, and wikis, with the folks on the tenure committee t
by blakesterz 11y ago
I was working in academia back in 2002 and I remember talking about this crazy open access thing, and blogs, and wikis, with the folks on the tenure committee then. I remember thinking how fast this tenure/publishing thing will change in the next few years. And here it is 13 years later and there's a headline about a HANDFUL of biologists going rouge and daring to publish a PREPRINT!? I know there's been quite a bit of progress, but I'm still surprised at just how little things have changed.
- dave2000 11y ago"HANDFUL of biologists going rouge" Rouge? They're positively crimson, darling.
- stuxnet79 11y agoWhy is everybody down-voting this? The unintentional double entendre is pretty hilarious :) But to stay on topic, I'd say that the impact of blogs and wikis have been felt, it is just up to the gatekeepers, the powers-that-be to accept this as relevant. Like somebody said here, "publications" and Nature/Science papers shouldn't be nearly as influential (wrt career trajectory) as they were in 1986.
- michaelhoffman 11y ago3000 manuscripts posted to bioRxiv since 2013. More than a handful.
- yitchelle 11y agoThe HANDFUL is referring to the number of biologist, not the number of manuscripts. However, compared to the number of potential biologists or manuscripts that could be published, it is just a HANDFUL.