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But the reviewer said “the abstract should be written as a whole and give an overall view, not as fragments cut and pasted from the various parts of the body of the article to which they refer”. It means that the reviewer didn’t know and didn’t take into account the guidelines for submission. Also meant that editor didn’t read the comments and was part of that contradiction…

https://pedrolr.es/blog/reviewing-papers-as-you-would-like-your-papers-to-be-reviewed-baum-2019-mol-biol-cell/

I like to add: “I will take into account the guidelines of the journal for the submissions”.

In my last rejection, the editor sent me the comments by reviewers. One was about the abstract format: the guidelines state it to be structured:

- Objectives:
- Methodology:
- Results:

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https://pedrolr.es/blog/reviewing-papers-as-you-would-like-your-papers-to-be-reviewed-baum-2019-mol-biol-cell/

-(2) I will read the paper carefully, in a timely manner...
-(4) I will review with the understanding that each useful paper represents a small step forward and that the true impact of work can only be assessed long afterward...
-(7) I will aim to be constructive even when recommending rejection of a paper. I will always aim to be unbiased, will never be rude or patronizing...

https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E19-05-0273

Hi! a few weeks ago I migrated to another instance (https://social.politicaconciencia.org/@plr), but I am still here on scholar.social too. My intention is to toot more content in Spanish there and in scholar.social content about research and academia (and in English).

Due to the migration, I guess followers on scholar.social are now followers on the new instance. Of course, feel free to stop follow the profile in the new instance! 😉

Estoy de vacaciones por el norte de España. Quería verde frondoso y conocer lugares que no conocía. Hoy llegué a Caldelas de Tuy, y me quedo 7 días en un sitio tipo la van de "ruta hacia lo salvaje". Ayer dormí cerca de Ribadelago, Zamora. Tampoco conocía... Por lo visto en 1959 la presa no aguantó y murieron 144 personas... Esto es un monumento en el pueblo:

DoReMiFaSolCaturday!!

Oli! She and her brother Lobo are my best friends. They and my brother are not living at my home any more. They are currently living in the forest, and I like to think Oli and Lobo spend their time (pretending they are) hunting. They live in the animal sanctuary where my bro' lives and works. This is the last picture I took to Oli!

#caturday

Hace poco contacté con la ofi de soft libre de mi uni (la Complu) para ser colaborador -por mis valores sobre lo FLOSS-. Me recibieron de 10 y, de momento, para noviembre, participaré en la https://cryptoparty.ucm.es/ con una charla titulada "El Fediverso: redes sociales que no conoces". Podré matizar el título; Fediverse no es solo redes (lo basé en https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/ Mi objetivo es captar la atención; que todo kiski asistente se sume al fediverse y abrir instancias en servers de la uni... 💪

In La Pedriza, Manzanares el Real, Madrid, Spain.

#lapedriza
#trees
#manzanareselreal
#madrid

https://pixelfed.social/p/mascotajones/450181951053954739

Next year I'll teach a course for an introduction to information and library technologies. I've tested some #MindMap tools that I'll include in the first weeks. I know Mindomo, Xmind... but they are non-FLOSS.

VYM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vym_(software)) and #MarkMap (https://markmap.js.org/) are great. #VYM creates an index as in a wiki, and MarkMap is based on #MarkDown.

Here is an example of a mindmap about #FLOSS in Wikipedia with VYM: https://pedrolr.es/mapasmentales/vym/floss/FLOSSinWIKIPEDIA.html

And with MarkMap: https://pedrolr.es/mapasmentales/mymarkup/markmapfloss.html

During last course I uploaded some videotutorials to explain how to calculate some indicators for libraries evaluation. My experience is really positive and tutorials are useful cause' people can stop and understand the content. Yes, cause to simply sync, I used YouTube (my university uses google accounts).

I've just sign up to https://tubedu.org/ from the #fediverse, and I'll move all my videos and use it from now on👏👏

My tubedu: https://tubedu.org/a/pedrolaz/video-channels

I'll post some edu-videos soon

My first #caturday #catsofmastodon​. My brother and their cats are living with me just for some time. I'll really miss them when leaving, but my bro' is working in an animal sanctuary and the 3 of them will live incredibly there. This is Oli, and the video was set by my bro'. Since first time I watched, I've been laughing 😊

I've just sign up for this proyect: No free view? No review! (https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/). I like the idea:

"We believe that science should evolve towards a different publishing model in which all scientific publications are freely available to readers as open access, without charging authors unfair prices. For this reason, we will avoid serving as peer reviewers for venues that do not make publicly available the research that we review".

Hi friends, I'd like to know your opinion about #OpenSource in #OpenScience. I think Open-Source must be for all the steps in the process of academic publishing to be Open-Science, not only if you develop a soft or for the results. What do you think?

Is Open Science if the research was written/developed/processed with non Open-Access Software?
For example: is Open Science if the research was written with Microsoft Office, or developed using SPSS?

I don't like to program exams in my courses. Thus, I name them "exercises on live". I've had to prepare 6 different exercises for 3 courses, using Moodle. It's been really useful to use the option "import in XML format". I think it's easier to redact questions in XML. I wrote the questions and solutions in text format first, and just had to substitute the text in the XML file. The interface of Moodle is really slow for me. Maybe it could be useful for someone

Last week, in my course on information seeking/retrieval, I dedicated a class to watch "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship"
I explained that now I can chose to publish only in OA journals and that I decline reviews if the journal is not OA. But during my PhD most of the times I felt forced to publish in "journals with the highest impact factor" and not OA due to the criteria of the University. I like the quote by Lars Bjørnshauge in the capture attached:

https://paywallthemovie.com/

What I enjoy the most is when I finish a course and I publish the materials in the repository of my university with CC-BY license . Many of the materials by my colleagues are closed. The university warns students cannot share them to avoid copyright issues. Regarding my materials, I believe in the future any professor will be able to start from that point, without having to do everything from 0, etc. That means benefits for the students. So, it's good to publish them openly.😄