[Open-access] science quality

Sat Jul 14 15:02:35 UTC 2012

Hmmm. What about nominating him for a knighthood...? Been around enough and contributed enough to deserve one IMO.

On 14 Jul 2012, at 10:35, Mike Taylor 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.
> 
> -- 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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