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Copyright: promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts by preventing...
In my recent preprint on the incompleteness and distortion of sauropod neck specimens, I discuss three well-known sauropod specimens in detail, and show that they are not as well known as we think they...
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What exactly is the problem with Elsevier and co?
For a long while, there has been a lot of anger among researchers and academic librarians towards the legacy publishers: the big corporations that control access to most of the world’s scholarly...
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Tutorial 32: How to ensure that no-one will ever use your PhyloPic silhouettes
Step 1: Include the Share-Alike provision in your Creative Commons license, as in the mysteriously popular CC BY-SA and CC BY-NC-SA. Step 2: Listen to the crickets. You’re done. Congratulations! No-one...
View ArticleGreen open-access does NOT mean delayed or non-commercial
Open-access journalist Richard Poynder posted a really good interview today with the Gates Foundation’s Associate Officer of Knowledge & Research Services, Ashley Farley. I feel bad about picking...
View ArticleThe Past, Present and Future of Jensen’s “Big Three” sauropods
My talk (Taylor and Wedel 2019) from this year’s SVPCA is up! The talks were not recorded live (at least, if they were, it’s a closely guarded secret). But while it was fresh in my mind, I did a...
View ArticleTutorial 19g: Open Access definitions and clarifications, part 7: why your...
Matt and I are about to submit a paper. One of the journals we considered — and would have really liked in many respects — turned out to use the CC By-NC-SA license. This is a a very well-intentioned...
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Matt’s Brachiosaurus in the wild
No, not his new Brachiosaurus humerus — his photograph of the Chicago Brachiosaurus mount, which he cut out and cleaned up seven years ago: This image has been on quite a journey. Since Matt published...
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Please review our new paper on pneumatic variation in sauropod vertebrae!
We’ve noted many times over the years how inconsistent pneumatic features are in sauropod vertebra. Fossae and formamina vary between individuals of the same species, and along the spinal column, and...
View ArticleThe untold story of the Carnegie Diplodocus
My talk (Taylor et al. 2023) from this year’s SVPCA is up! The talks were not recorded live. But while it was fresh in my mind, I did a screencast of my own, and posted it on YouTube (CC By). For the...
View ArticleOn the tragic fate of PeerJ
I said last time that Jisc’s feeble transition-to-open-access report was the first of two disapointing scholarly-communication announcements that week. The second was of course the announcement that...
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