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FILTER RESULTS ►Re-inventing Academic Publishing: 'Diamond' Open Access Titles That Are Free To Read And Free To Publish
As Techdirt has been reporting, the idea of providing open access to publicly-funded research is steadily gaining ground. One of the key moments occurred almost exactly a year ago, when the British mathematician Tim Gowers announced that he would no longer have anything to do with the major academic publisher Elsevier. Show More Summary
Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma
For the past few months, Cambridge University Press (in consultation with a number of mathematicians, including Tim Gowers and myself) has been preparing to launch a new open access journal (or more precisely, a complex of journals – see below) in mathematics, under the title “Forum of Mathematics“, as an experiment in moving away from [...]
2012 Abel Prize
The 2012 Abel Prize was awarded this morning to Endre Szemerédi. I know nothing about him or his work, but there’s a webcast going on right now with Tim Gowers providing explanation.
New at Times Higher Education: “Open, moral and pragmatic”
In the middle of February, Times Higher Education ran a piece by Elsevier boycott originator Tim Gowers, entitled Occupy publishing. A week ago, they published a letter in response, written by Elsevier Senior VP David Clark, under the title If it ain’t broke, don’t bin it, in which he argued that “there is little merit [...]
A forum on mathematical publishing
There’s been lots of great discussion on the future of mathematical publishing in recent weeks, largely inspired by the boycott of Elsevier (1) (2) (3). Mostly this has been happening on blogs, particularly Tim Gower’s, but also here and a number of other places. There’s a nice index of this discussion in a wiki page [...]
More on Elsevier
I keep feeling I should comment on the kerfuffle around Tim Gowers and Elsevier. I had some similar thoughts way back when, though I found that I actually did not have the necessary chutzpah to respond to referee requests as I suggested therein. At the moment, I really find myself just wishing I understood the [...]
The cost of knowledge
A few days ago, inspired by this recent post of Tim Gowers, a web page entitled “the cost of knowledge” has been set up as a location for mathematicians and other academics to declare a protest against the academic publishing practices of Reed Elsevier, in particular with regard to their exceptionally high journal prices, their [...]
The cost of knowledge
Following a blog post by fields medalist Tim Gowers, there is now a website for signing an academic boycott declaration against the worst of the big anti-science publishers, Elsevier. I have signed.
The cost of knowledge
Tim Gowers has put up a new pledge website against Elsevier. For many years, academics have protested against the business practices of Elsevier. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically … Continue reading ?
MyNotes - Networked Science
Source: http://www.ima.umn.edu/2008-2009/PUB4.28.09/ALB_Network%20Image.jpg
This is an article I enjoyed, sharing the story of Tim Gowers to run an experiment in a way that his PLN could help him solve. Although the article states that...Show More Summary
A message from our sponsors
Tim Gowers’ brilliant deconstruction of EPSRC’s Newspeak — a must read for every mathematician in Britain.
Open Science
Talk by Michael Nielsen: Tim Gowers’s blog post Polymath Wiki Doesn’t always work
Tim Roth Joins 'Arbitrage' Cast
Tim Roth has closed a deal to costar in Arbitrage, the Nicholas Jarecki-directed drama that begins shooting shortly in New York. Richard Gere, Eva Green and Susan Sarandon star. Roth will play Michael Gower, a detective investigating a murder. Show More Summary
Economic impact of mathematics?
Tim Gowers wrote in The Importance of Mathematics: If you were to work out what mathematical research has cost the world in the last 100 years, and then work out what the world has gained, in crude economic terms, then you would discover that the world has received an extraordinary return on a very small investment. Show More Summary
New polymath blog, and comment ratings
In view of the sustained interest in new polymath projects, Tim Gowers, Gil Kalai, and I have set up a new blog to propose, plan, and run these projects. This blog is not intended to hold a “monopoly” on the polymath enterprise, but to merely be a convenient central location for discussing and running such [...]
Structure and randomness in the prime numbers
This week I am in Bremen, where the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad is being held. A number of former Olympians (Béla Bollobás, Tim Gowers, Laci Lovasz, Stas Smirnov, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, and myself) were invited to give a short talk (20 minutes in length) at the celebratory event for this anniversary. I chose to talk on [...]
Google Wave
As readers of this blog are no doubt aware, I (in conjunction with Tim Gowers and many others) have been working collaboratively on a mathematical project. To do this, we have been jury-rigging together a wide variety of online tools for this, including at least two blogs, a wiki, some online spreadsheets, and good old-fashioned [...]
Is massively collaborative mathematics scalable?
I’ve been watching, though not particularly intently, Tim Gowers’s attempt massively collaborative mathematics. I’m not sure if I’ve looked hard enough to judge, but it certainly looks as though it were quite successful. This of course, answers Tim’s original question “is massively collaborative mathematics possible?” positively, but I still have to wonder if [...]
Tricki now live
From Tim Gowers’ blog comes the announcement that the Tricki - a wiki for various tricks and strategies for proving mathematical results - is now live. (My own articles for the Tricki are also on this blog; also Ben Green has written up an article on using finite fields to prove results about infinite fields [...]
Tricki
As most readers have probably learnt now, Tim Gowers’s “Tricki” is now accessible on the internet. In particular, my earlier article on Smoothing sums can be found there now, and consequently the older page I had will not be updated anymore with new material or corrections (but I have added a link to the other [...]
