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Yet even the author publishes regularly in closed-access journals such as Nature http://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=z2foFg4AAAAJ&vie

Yet even the author publishes regularly in closed-access journals such as Nature http://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=z2foFg4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works http://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en...

synparb 15y ago
I would only say that the vast majority of his publications in the last couple of years when he was the corresponding author (i.e. the one making the executive decision), were in open access journals.
- rflrob 15y ago
  As a member of his lab, it's actually a point of pride that everything where he is the corresponding author is now published in OA journals. When collaborating with other labs, we strongly lobby for OA publication as well, but not all other PIs can be convinced that the long-term benefit to the science ecosystem is worth the short-term loss of prestige in not publishing in Science, Nature, or Cell.
SeanLuke 15y ago
I fail to see how that is supposed to be hypocritical. Nature etc. are at present important venues for publication, particularly in this researcher's area. Is it hypocritical to agitate strenuously for electric cars while driving a gas one if it's not realistic to drive all electric in your situation? This would only be hypocritical if he were criticizing other researchers for publishing in non-open journals. But he's not, at least to my reading. He's urging that they consider other venues. He's only criticizing the government.
- zerostar07 15y ago
  I didn't call him a hypocrite. Just saying that even the most courageous supporters of science openness cannot escape the tangles of old publishers. Btw his latest nature comment is pretty funny: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7314/full/467401d.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7314/full/467401d...
- cyrus_ 15y ago
  Some open science advocates continue to publish in the top journals out of necessity but refuse to do free peer review for them.

synparb 15y ago

I would only say that the vast majority of his publications in the last couple of years when he was the corresponding author (i.e. the one making the executive decision), were in open access journals.

rflrob 15y ago
As a member of his lab, it's actually a point of pride that everything where he is the corresponding author is now published in OA journals. When collaborating with other labs, we strongly lobby for OA publication as well, but not all other PIs can be convinced that the long-term benefit to the science ecosystem is worth the short-term loss of prestige in not publishing in Science, Nature, or Cell.

SeanLuke 15y ago

I fail to see how that is supposed to be hypocritical. Nature etc. are at present important venues for publication, particularly in this researcher's area. Is it hypocritical to agitate strenuously for electric cars while driving a gas one if it's not realistic to drive all electric in your situation? This would only be hypocritical if he were criticizing other researchers for publishing in non-open journals. But he's not, at least to my reading. He's urging that they consider other venues. He's only criticizing the government.

zerostar07 15y ago
I didn't call him a hypocrite. Just saying that even the most courageous supporters of science openness cannot escape the tangles of old publishers. Btw his latest nature comment is pretty funny: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7314/full/467401d.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7314/full/467401d...
cyrus_ 15y ago
Some open science advocates continue to publish in the top journals out of necessity but refuse to do free peer review for them.