Who is Camille Noûs?
French researcher Camille Noûs has published over 180 highly cited research papers. Camille does not exist, so what is the real story here?
journals
Big win for Open Access
Major university has refused to renew journal subscriptions with Elsevier. They are pushing for Open Access, will no longer pay excessive fees
Scientific Pirates – rebels with a cause
Now here is an interesting twist on things, and yet if you think about it, not really a surprise. There now exist websites that provides free access to scientific articles that normally reside behind paywalls, and so the official publisher, Elsevier, has responded by filing a complaint at a New York district court against Library Genesis (LibGen) and Sci-Hub.org(currently at this URL http://www.sci-hub.club, but … Read more
“Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List” has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication
Indeed yes, a scientific paper entitled “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List” has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication. So the story here is that back in 2005 the authors, David Mazières and Eddie Kohler, wrote this “paper” as a joke reply to the gazillions of emails they get from vanity journals. When solicited for a submission … Read more