publishing

I received a few of these emails, from scholars’ press and others, offering me a chance to publish my thesis (which anyone can find online for free in its entirety, if …

Prologue: I have been working on this blog post about failure for months and kept cutting bits out of it because it was so long and boring. This is actually …

When I was in undergrad, I still visited the library once in a while to get an article. Many were online, but especially older editions had not yet been scanned …

Yesterday Nature launched a debate on peer review, which is open for everyone’s reactions on the accompanying blog. There are currently five articles on the web focus site, each highlighting …

Hundreds of scientific articles are published every week. Most of them are so specific that only someone working in the same field can understand them. Breakthrough articles that are expected …