A flurry of great tweets today from Prof. Ewan Birney are worthy of a quick post.
(1) Use ORCids (@ORCID_Org) for both authors and reviewers removing inane instutition etc duplication
— Ewan Birney (@ewanbirney) July 6, 2014
(2) Stop with the harvesting of people information for your marketing department (in particular with reviewers!)
— Ewan Birney (@ewanbirney) July 6, 2014
(3) Journal specific formatting details on acceptance, not submission (@elife has the right idea here)
— Ewan Birney (@ewanbirney) July 6, 2014
(4) Embrace the movement towards pre-print servers and post-submission peer review. Physics and Maths can’t be so wrong.
— Ewan Birney (@ewanbirney) July 6, 2014
(5) Get rid of the “could do better/sexier” in this paper in reviews (I am sometimes guilty of this) and focus just on “is this sound?”
— Ewan Birney (@ewanbirney) July 6, 2014
UPDATE
.@ewanbirney Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. #6: Open data: release your lab books + raw data when you publish.
— Matthew Todd (@MatToddChem) July 6, 2014
@MatToddChem I have always considered data release as inherent part of publication
— Ewan Birney (@ewanbirney) July 6, 2014
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Also worthy of inclusion is this video about Open Access
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