by Richard Easther | Jan 13, 2015 | Bad Science
In the last few years the number of “open access” journals has burgeoned. Open access journals are free to read, which limits their ability to raise money from subscriptions, and they typically charge authors a fee for publication. This may sound a...
by Richard Easther | Apr 17, 2014 | Cosmology, Physics
A month ago the BICEP2 team announced that our universe is apparently awash with gravitational waves, pointing to the existence of an inflationary phase moments after the Big Bang. This was front page news all over the world, and cosmologists...
by Richard Easther | Mar 15, 2013 | Academia
Earlier this week I posted a paper on the Arxiv (which is described here). The next morning I woke up to an email asking if my co-authors and I were interested in submitting our paper in a new, open...
by Richard Easther | Feb 5, 2013 | Academia
There is an “Open Research” meeting here in Auckland this week and I am registered for the “unconference” on the second day (I am also headed to Kiwi Foo on the weekend, which means I will attend more unconferences in a week than I managed in the...
