Category Archives: Open Access publishing

GSA’s single article access scam

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

Note: I am not using the word scam in a legal sense here, but as an everyday language term. Maybe a case could be made that GSA’s behavior is in fact fraudulent, but I believe such a case would fail … Continue reading →

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Direct PDF download link for Mallison and Wings 2014

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

I keep getting emails requesting a PDF of the paper I wrote with Oliver Wings (link to blog post) on how to do photography for photogrammetry. That’s because the download link on the journal’s web page of the article is … Continue reading →

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PHOTOGRAMMETRY IN PALEONTOLOGY – A PRACTICAL GUIDE

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Heinrich Mallison

While I was on holiday my latest paper finally went online. It is a joint effort with Oliver Wings that details some good approaches for photogrammetric 3D modelling specimens. You can find the PDF at this link. The web version … Continue reading →

Posted in 3D modeling, AMNH, Conferences, DigitalSpecimen 2014, Digitizing, Dinopics, Dinosaur models, How to, Khaan, Maniraptora, Open Access publishing, Oviraptorosauridae, papers, photogrammetry, photography, Theropoda | 5 Comments

Taylor & Franics misrepresents DFG guidelines on Open Access – an innocent error?

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Heinrich Mallison

Thursday, April 17, 2014, I received an email from Vicky Gardner of Taylor&Francis (tandf.co.uk) inviting me to participate in a survey regarding Open Access Mandates. Here’s the email’s text: Dear Heinrich Mallison, Tell us what you know for a chance … Continue reading →

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Happy news: two MfN journals go Open Access!

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Heinrich Mallison

The MfN has two in-house journals, Fossil Record (FR) and Zoosystematics and Evolution (Z&E), for which I just received exciting news. Our PR department emailed that both journals will go Open Access in 2014, changing from Wiley to Copernicus Publishing … Continue reading →

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