[Open-access] science quality

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:

> I'd not heard of Richard Smith either until a week ago when he wrote
> this blog at the BMJ:
>
> http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/06/28/richard-smith-a-bad-bad-week-for-access/
> and then this one:
>
> http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2012/07/03/richard-smith-medical-journals-a-gaggle-of-golden-geese/
>
> Some excellent, hard-hitting stuff.
>
>
I had heard of him but don't come across him regularly so it had faded. I
think he has been brave and is some years ahead of his time and it's clear
that he needs promoting. Maybe  a Panton Discussion .

P.


> -- Mike.
>
>
>
> On 14 July 2012 06:58, Tom Olijhoek <tom.olijhoek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Peter and other list members,
> >
> > I just happened to find very interesting info on quality of medical
> > journals, new forms for peer review, patient-doctor interactions to
> improve
> > science and treatments, journal of participatory medicine to aid the
> former,
> > Ovations initiative for combating chronic diseases in developed and
> > developing world.
> > All this because I read an article on scientific quality mentioning
> Richard
> > Smith and started looking:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Smith_(editor)
> >
> > I am amazed that I haven't come across this before,since he is one of the
> > early proponents of open access publishing. But some of you may know him
> and
> > his work?
> > Definitely worth following up in my opinion
> >
> > TOM
> >
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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