Future of Research Conference - Remarkable Opening Session
Type
Blog Post
Published
Oct. 7, 2014, 3 p.m.
...Jessica Polka from Harvard Medical School and a long list of supporters from all of the research centers in...problems resulting from past practices and mores. His list is dire: The current system is unsustainable, hypercompetition...be radically overhauled. Finally, the science publishing system needs to be changed. Dr. Bourne charged...training excellence to begin effecting change.
Panelists call for action
Each of the speakers in the panel...applause when he talked about how he boycotts publishing in all but open access journals. Dr. David Glass...astounding lack of reproducibility being recognized in published work even in the “best” journals. He pushed for...