Author
Alexandra Freeman
Alexandra Freeman became Executive Director of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge after 17 years as a documentary-maker. She created octopus.ac, a platform for scholarly publishing funded by the government’s research funder UKRI, as a way of improving the way research is communicated and the research culture.
2 pieces
Newest first, since December 2019
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We need to decide what good research looks like
Alexandra Freeman sets out the problems that lead to research results not getting published – and offers some possible solutions
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The journal publication system betrays the purpose of science
Publishing articles in academic journals is a slow and difficult way to share new research discoveries. Alex Freeman decided to try to do something about it.