Friday Song: "The Muppet Show Theme"
A fount of musical joy, the show was pure fun from start to finish
Kent Anderson
Data Missing, Study May Be Useless
Claiming journals do nothing to preprints, researchers don't find, keep key data
A Board Seat, Then a Top Donor
Exploiting a conflict-of-interest at SPARC seems to have paid dividends
Citation Loss At Major Medical Journals
A consistent finding — it accelerates after publication of the peer-reviewed paper
An Undisclosed Conflict of Interest
SPARC's Executive Director may have participated in philanthropic funding decisions
OA.Works, SPARC, and More Questions
Misleading and confusing claims seem designed to appeal to funders
SPARC, PACs, and Paychecks
Dark money, hidden influence, and selective secrecy fan the flames at SPARC
Song: "Justice and Independence 85"
A John Cougar Mellencamp song with a heavy metaphor now seems pitched right
PLOS-Deposited Preprints Are Different
Highlighting that not all papers are created equal, PLOS may have hit on a signal
Journals Lose Citations to Preprints
Even after publication, unreviewed versions divert citations at PLOS