By Alex Jackson on 17 Oct 2014
Guest Post by Martin Fenner. Martin Fenner is the technical lead for the PLOS Article-Level Metrics project. Before taking this position in 2012 he worked as a medical oncologist at the Hannover Medical School Cancer Center in Germany. He has served on the ORCID Board from 2010 to 2012 and is a member of the ORCID Outreach Steering Group. Read more
Posted in Events, Featured, Science festivals, SpotOn London (SoLo) | Tagged London, policy, science, science communication, spot_on, technology, tools
By Grace Baynes on 28 Mar 2014
We would like to clarify NPG’s support for open access, and our position of the moral rights of authors, following some concerns raised by Kevin Smith, Duke University’s Scholarly Communications Officer. Read more
Posted in Featured, Science policy, Uncategorized | Tagged Communities Happenings, open access, policy |
By nature.com Communities Team on 09 Jun 2011
On Wednesday evening, we hosted the third installment of the monthly Science Online NYC (SoNYC) discussion series. The topic for debate this month was “Science and the Law” and the panel featured Nadim Shohdy, Matt Berntsen Simon Singh (who kindly stayed up late in the UK so that he could join us via Skype) and Dan Vorhaus. Read more
Posted in Events, SpotOn NYC (SoNYC) | Tagged #SoNYC, law, policy, politics