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Humanizing Scholarship Visualising, Violating, and
Three weeks ago, COPE published new guidance for how to handle retractions of published articles - highlighting just how pressing the problem is becoming.
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On Making Research Pay For Itself
Governments award money (take), research is produced (make), which - unless a patent facilitates private ownership for a short time - becomes part of the scientific commons (waste).
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On Living For Scholarship
It does not confuse the appearance of a scientific article, with its hypotheses, tests, and conclusions, all neatly laid out, with the ways in which the research was actually carried out.
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