Category Archives: mathematical publishing

The Rule of 135

Posted on 29 May 2017 by

From SingingBanana.

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“Holy crap – an actual book!”

Posted on 10 August 2016 by

Originally posted on mathbabe:
Yo, everyone! The final version of my book now exists, and I have exactly one copy! Here’s my editor, Amanda Cook, holding it yesterday when we met for beers: Here’s my son holding it: He’s offered…

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open access for everything

Posted on 19 December 2014 by

In addition to Larry Wasserman’s article, and the power of arXiv.org, there are these two interesting YouTube interviews with Jack Andraka.

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“A pause or not a pause, that is the question.”

Posted on 4 December 2014 by

Originally posted on Open Mind:
One day, a new data set is released. The rumor runs rampant that it’s annual average global temperature since 1980. Climate scientist “A” states that there is clearly a warming trend (shown by the red…

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testing how one might do bibliographic references on Wordpress without plugins

Posted on 26 April 2014 by

References Shotton D. (2013). Open citations. Nature 502: 295–297. http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-open-citations-1.13937. doi:10.1038/502295a. Peroni S and Shotton D (2012). FaBiO and CiTO: ontologies for describing bibliographic resources and citations. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. 17: 33-34. … Continue reading →

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