Palaeontology Publications

1st July 2025

Dr. Michael P. Taylor
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK
<dino@miketaylor.org.uk>
http://svpow.com
@mike@sauropods.win

Published Papers
Preprints
Papers In Press
Papers In Review
Invited Talks and Symposia
Conference Talks
Conference Posters
Computer Science
Popular Press
    Open Access
    Walking with Dinosaurs
    Other
Ph.D Dissertation

Published Papers

• Van der Linden, Tom T. P., Michael P. Taylor, Amy Campbell, Brian D. Curtice, René Dederichs, Lucas N. Lerzo, John A. Whitlock, D. Cary Woodruff and Emanuel Tschopp. 2025. Introduction to Diplodocoidea. Palaeontologica Electronica 28.2.a27 (49 pages) doi: 10.26879/1518 [page at PE] [PDF at PE] [local copy of PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P., Amy C. Henrici, Linsly J. Church, Ilja Nieuwland and Matthew C. Lamanna. 2025. The history and composition of the Carnegie Diplodocus. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 91(1):55–91. doi: 10.2992/007.091.0104 [BioOne page] [local copy of PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2023. Novel pneumatic features in the ribs of the sauropod dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68(4):709-718 doi: 10.4202/app.01105.2023 [PDF] [local copy] [APP page]
• Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2023. The biomechanical significance of bifurcated cervical ribs in apatosaurine sauropods. VAMP (Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology) 11:91-100. doi: 10.18435/vamp29394 [PDF] [local copy] [VAMP page]
• Taylor, Michael P., Steven D. Sroka and Kenneth Carpenter. 2023. The Concrete Diplodocus of Vernal — a Cultural Icon of Utah. Geology of the Intermountain West 10:65-91. doi: 10.31711/giw.v10.pp65-91 [PDF] [local copy] [GIW page] [Preprint]
• Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2022. What do we mean by the directions “cranial” and “caudal” on a vertebra? Journal of Paleontological Techniques 25:1-24. [PDF] [local copy] [JPT page]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2022. I don't peer-review for non-open journals, and neither should you. Journal of Data and Information Science 7(2):1-3. doi: 10.2478/jdis-2022-0010 [PDF] [local copy] [JDIS page]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2022. Almost all known sauropod necks are incomplete and distorted. PeerJ 10:e12810. doi: 10.7717/peerj.12810 [PDF] [PeerJ page] [Unofficial supplementary information] [PeerJ Preprint]
• Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2021. Why is vertebral pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs so variable? (version 3) Qeios 1G6J3Q.5. doi: 10.32388/1G6J3Q.5 [PDF] [local copy] [Qeios page]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2018. Xenoposeidon is the earliest known rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur. PeerJ 6:e5212. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5212 [PDF] [PeerJ page] [Unofficial supplementary information] [PeerJ Preprint]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2017. Comment (Case 3700) – Support for Diplodocus carnegii Hatcher, 1901 being designated as the type species of Diplodocus Marsh, 1878. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 73(2–4):134-135. [PDF]
• Ansolabehere, Karina, Cheryl Ball, Medha Devare, Tee Guidotti, Bill Priedhorsky, Wim van der Stelt, Mike Taylor, Susan Veldsman and John Willinsky. 2016. The Moral Dimensions of Open. Open Scholarship Initiative Proceedings 1 (5 pages). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13021/G8SW2G [PDF] [PDF at GMU]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2016. Better ways to evaluate research and researchers. SPARC Europe Briefing Paper 8 (8 pages). [PDF] [PDF at SPARC Europe]
• Upchurch, Paul, Philip D. Mannion and Michael P. Taylor. 2015. The Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of “Pelorosaurus” becklesii (Neosauropoda, Macronaria) from the Early Cretaceous of England. PLOS ONE 10(6):e0125819. 51 pages. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125819 [PDF] [PLOS ONE page]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2014. Quantifying the effect of intervertebral cartilage on neutral posture in the necks of sauropod dinosaurs. PeerJ 2:e712. doi: 10.7717/peerj.712 [PDF] [PeerJ page] [Unofficial supplementary information] [PeerJ Preprint]
• Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2013c. The effect of intervertebral cartilage on neutral posture and range of motion in the necks of sauropod dinosaurs. PLOS ONE 8(10):e78214. 17 pages. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078214 [PDF] [PLOS ONE page]
• Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor 2013b. Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus. PLOS ONE 8(10):e78213. 14 pages. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078213 [PDF] [PLOS ONE page]
• Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2013a. Neural spine bifurcation in sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation: ontogenetic and phylogenetic implications. PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 10(1):1-34. [PDF] [local copy] [PalArch page] [Unofficial supplementary information]
• Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2013a. Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks. PeerJ 1:e36. doi: 10.7717/peerj.36 [PDF] [PeerJ page] [Unofficial supplementary information] [arXiv preprint]
• Taylor, Michael P., David W. E. Hone, Mathew J. Wedel and Darren Naish. 2011. The long necks of sauropods did not evolve primarily through sexual selection. Journal of Zoology 285:150-161. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00824.x [PDF] [PDF at JZ] [Unofficial supplementary information]
• Taylor, Michael P., Mathew J. Wedel and Richard L. Cifelli. 2011. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56(1):75-98. doi: 10.4202/app.2010.0073 [PDF] [PDF at Acta Pal Pol] [Unofficial supplementary information]
• Hone, David W. E., Michael P. Taylor, David Wynick, Paolo Viscardi and Neil Gostling. 2011. Running a question-and-answer website for science education: first hand experiences. Evolution: Education and Outreach 4(1):153-157. doi: 10.1007/s12052-011-0318-5 [PDF] [PDF at SpringerLink]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2010. Sauropod dinosaur research: a historical review. pp. 361-386 in: Richard T. J. Moody, Eric Buffetaut, Darren Naish and David M. Martill (eds.), Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: a Historical Perspective. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 343. doi: 10.1144/SP343.22 [PDF] [PDF at GeolSoc] [Abstract] [Unofficial supplementary information]
• Taylor, Michael P., Andrew A. Farke and Mathew J. Wedel. 2010. The Open Dinosaur Project. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter 73:59-63. [PDF] [PDF at PalAss]
• Farke, Andrew A., Michael P. Taylor and Mathew J. Wedel. 2009. Sharing: public databases combat mistrust and secrecy. Nature 461:1053. [PDF] [PDF at Nature]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2009. Electronic publication of nomenclatural acts is inevitable, and will be accepted by the taxonomic community with or without the endorsement of the Code. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(3):205-214. [PDF] [PDF at BZN] [Abstract]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2009. A re-evaluation of Brachiosaurus altithorax Riggs 1903 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) and its generic separation from Giraffatitan brancai (Janensch 1914). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):787-806. doi: 10.1671/039.029.0309 [PDF] [Abstract] [Abstract at BioOne] [Unofficial supplementary information]
  Correction (to a point of nomenclature) published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3):727. [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P., Mathew J. Wedel and Darren Naish. 2009. Head and neck posture in sauropod dinosaurs inferred from extant animals. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(2):213-230. [PDF] [PDF at APP] [Abstract] [Abstract at APP] [Media information] [Unofficial supplementary information]
• Upchurch, Paul, John Martin, and Michael P. Taylor. 2009. Case 3472: Cetiosaurus Owen, 1841 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Cetiosaurus oxoniensis Phillips, 1871 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(1):51-55. [PDF] [Abstract]
  Decision to uphold the petition published April 2014 in Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 71(1):48-50. [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P., and Darren Naish. 2007. An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England. Palaeontology 50(6):1547-1564. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00728.x [PDF] [Abstract] [Abstract at Palaeontology] [Media information] [Unofficial supplementary information]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2007. Phylogenetic definitions in the pre-PhyloCode era; implications for naming clades under the PhyloCode. PaleoBios 27(1):1-6. [PDF] [Abstract] [Abstract at PaleoBios]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2006. Dinosaur diversity analysed by clade, age, place and year of description. pp. 134-138 in Paul M. Barrett and Susan E. Evans (eds.), Ninth international symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and biota, Manchester, UK. Cambridge Publications. Natural History Museum, London, UK. 187 pp. [PDF] [Abstract]
• Taylor, Michael P., and Darren Naish. 2005. The Phylogenetic Taxonomy of Diplodocoidea (Dinosauria: Sauropoda). PaleoBios 25(2):1-7. [PDF] [Abstract] [Abstract at PaleoBios]

Preprints

• Taylor, Michael P. 2014 (written in 2004). A survey of dinosaur diversity by clade, age, place of discovery and year of description. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e434v1. doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.434v1 [PDF] [PeerJ page]
• Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2013b. The neck of Barosaurus: longer, wider and weirder than those of Diplodocus and other diplodocines. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e67v1. doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.67v1 [PDF] [PeerJ page]

Papers In Press

Papers In Review

Invited Talks and Symposia

• Friday 31 May 2024. The open access movement has failed. Debate in favour of the motion. Plenary debate, annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Westin Boston Seaport District, Boston, MA. [Program]
• Tuesday 22 December 2020. Why giraffes have short necks ... and how sauropods got it right. Palaeontology Research Group at the University of Bonn, Germany. (Online.) [Video]
• Monday 24 February 2020. The venue of its publication tells us nothing useful about the quality of a paper. Debate in favour of the proposition, Researcher to Reader (R2R) conference, BMA House, London. [opening speech] (co-authored) [response to opposition] [video]
• Thursday 5 April 2018. Why giraffes have short necks ... and how sauropods got it right. Bath Geological Society, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Queen Square, Bath. [Slides]
• Friday 17 February 2017. Discussant on Royal Society panel, Bringing Scholarly Communication into the 21st Century. AAAS 2017 Annual Meeting, Boston, USA. [Programme] [Local copy]
• Wednesday 8 February 2017. Yes, of course science should always be open (updated and revised). PG Cert course in Open Knowledge in Higher Education, University of Manchester library. [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF]
• Friday 19 February 2016. Yes, of course science should always be open. PG Cert course in Open Knowledge in Higher Education, University of Manchester library. [Abstract] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF] [Video (17m50s)]
• Friday 19 February 2016. Open Access is about sharing, unity and sanity, not about money. (Although it saves money, too.). "Liquid Lunch" lunchtime talk, University of Manchester library. [Abstract] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF]
• Wednesday 25 June 2014. Yes, of course science should always be open. ESOF 2014 (Euroscience Open Forum), Glyptotek Hall, Carlsberg Museum, Copenhagen. [Abstract] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF]
• Wednesday 26 February 2014. Why giraffes have short necks ... and how sauropods got it right. Bristol Naturalists' Society, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol. [Slides]
• Tuesday 19 November 2013. Open Access is about sharing, unity and sanity, not about money. Berlin 11 Open Access Conference: 10th Anniversary of the Berlin Declaration. [Abstract] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF]
• Monday 18 November 2013. Towards universal Open Access: what we can do about it, and who should do it. Berlin 11 Satellite Conference for students and early-career researchers. [No abstract] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF]
• Thursday 20 June 2013. University of Ulster. Three arguments for open access (extended edition). Research Workshop, School of Computing and Information Engineering. [Abstract] [Slides]
• Wednesday 29 May 2013. University College London. Three arguments for open access. Talk at Future Univercities seminar, Platforms: Open Access, Participation, Publishing. [Abstract] [Local copy] [Slides]
• Thursday 11 April 2013. Oxford Union, University of Oxford. Debate: Evolution or Revolution In Science Communication?, at Rigour and Openness in 21st Century Science conference. [Opening statement] [Video]
• Thursday 27 September 2012. Taylor, Michael P. Chair of Westminster briefing: Access to Research: Implementing the Finch Group's Recommendations. [Agenda] [Local copy]
• Sunday 11 December 2011. University of Bonn. Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. Sauropod necks: how much do we know? (No abstract) [Slides]
• Thursday 20 November 2008. Humboldt Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Taylor, Michael P. Brachiosaurus brancai is not Brachiosaurus. [Abstract] [Slides]

Conference Talks

• SVPCA 2023. Taylor, Michael P., Matthew C. Lamanna, Ilja Nieuwland, Amy C. Henrici, Linsly J. Church, Steven D. Sroka and Kenneth Carpenter. 2023. The untold story of the Carnegie Diplodocus. p. 31 in Anonymous (ed.), SVPCA 2023 Lincoln: the 69th Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF] [Video]
• SVPCA 2019. Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2019. The Past, Present and Future of Jensen's "Big Three" sauropods. p. 14 in Anonymous (ed.), SVPCA Conference Abstracts. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF] [PeerJ Preprint] [Video]
• 1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress. Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2016. What do we mean by the directions “cranial” and “caudal” on a vertebra?. p. 157 in Vicente D. Crespo et al. (eds.), Book of Abstracts: Palaeontology in the Virtual Era. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF] [PeerJ Preprint] [Video]
• SVPCA 2016. Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2016. How big did Barosaurus get?. p. 30 in Anonymous (ed.), SVPCA and SPPC 2016 Liverpool Abstract Book. 49 pp. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides PPTX] [Slides PDF]
• SVPCA 2015. Taylor, Michael P., Mathew J. Wedel, Darren Naish and Brian Engh. 2015. Were the necks of Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus adapted for combat?. p. 71 in Mark Young (ed.), Abstracts, 63rd Symposium for Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Southampton. 115 pp. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF] [PeerJ Preprint]
• Court and Spark: An International Symposium on Joni Mitchell. Taylor, Michael P., and Fiona J. Taylor. 2015. Musical progress and emotional stasis from Blue (1971) to Hejira (1976). [Abstract] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF]
• SVPCA 2014. Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2014. Slender Giants. p. 52 in Roger Benson, Sam Cobb, Phil Cox, Susan Evans, Laura Fitton, Matt Friedman, Paul O'Higgins, Emily Rayfield and Rob Sansom. (eds.), Abstracts, 62nd Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, York, UK, 2nd-6th September 2014. 84 pp. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides PPT] [Slides PDF] Note that this abstracts booklet PDF is of a provisional version, differently paginated.
• SVPCA 2013. Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2013. Barosaurus revisited: the concept of Barosaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) is based on erroneously referred specimens. (Talk given as: Barosaurus revisited: the concept of Barosaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) is not based on erroneously referred specimens.) pp. 37-38 in Stig Walsh, Nick Fraser, Stephen Brusatte, Jeff Liston and Vicen Carrió (eds.), Programme and Abstracts, 61st Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Edinburgh, UK, 27th-30th August 2013. 33 pp. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides]
• SVPCA 2012. Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2012. Re-evaluating "Apatosaurus" minimus, a bizarre Morrison Formation sauropod with diplodocoid and macronarian features. p. 23 in Matt Friedman and Graeme Lloyd (eds.), Programme and Abstracts, 60th Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, September 10th-15th 2012. 33 pp. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides]
• SVPCA 2011. Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2011. Sauropod necks: how much do we really know?. p. 20 in Richard Forrest (ed.), Abstracts of Presentations, 59th Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK, September 12th-17th 2011. 37 pp. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides]
• SVPCA 2010. Taylor, Michael P., and Mathew J. Wedel. 2010. Why giraffes have such short necks. p. 24 in Anonymous (ed.), Abstracts volume for 58th Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Cambridge, UK, 15th-17th September 2010. 38 pp. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides]
• SVPCA 2010b. Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2010. Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus. pp. 25-26 in Anonymous (ed.), Abstracts volume for 58th Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Cambridge, UK, 15th-17th September 2010. 38 pp. [Abstract] [Abstracts volume] [Slides not yet available.]
• [No talk in 2009: I didn't get a slot at the joint SVP/SVPCA meeting in Bristol. Not even a poster.]
• Symposium: Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism (2008). Taylor, Michael P., Mathew J. Wedel and Darren Naish. 2008. A new approach to determining the habitual neck posture of sauropods based on the behaviour of extant animals. (No published abstract.) [Slides]
• Symposium: Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism (2008). Taylor, Michael P. 2008. Upper limits on the mass of land animals estimated through the articular area of limb-bone cartilage. (No published abstract, but it was the same talk as my ProgPal 2005 offering) [Slides]
• Symposium: Dinosaurs, A Historical Perspective (2008). Taylor, Michael P. 2008. The evolution of sauropod dinosaurs from 1841 to 2008. pp. 15-17 in: Richard Moody, Eric Buffetaut, David Martill and Darren Naish (eds.), Dinosaurs (and other extinct saurians): A Historical Perspective abstracts, Geologists' Association, History of Geology Group, London, England. 71 pp. [Abstract] [Slides]
• Cal Paleo 2008 (talk by Matt Wedel). Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2008. Did sauropods really decline in the Early Cretaceous of North America? PaleoBios 28 (1, supplement): 8. [Abstract] [Slides]
• Progressive Palaeontology 2007. Taylor, Michael P. 2007. Diversity of sauropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden Supergroup of southern England. p. 23 in Graeme T. Lloyd (ed.), Progressive Palaeontology 2007, Thursday 12th-Saturday 14th April, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol. 38 pp. [Abstract] [PDF Abstract] [Slides]
• Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota 2006. Taylor, M. P. 2006. Dinosaur diversity analysed by clade, age, place and year of description. p. 182 in Paul M. Barrett and Susan E. Evans (eds.), Ninth international symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and biota, Manchester, UK. Cambridge Publications. Natural History Museum, London, UK. 187 pp. [Abstract] [Slides not yet available]
• Progressive Palaeontology 2006. Taylor, Michael P. 2006. An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England. p. 17 in Anonymous (ed.), Abstract book: Progressive Palaeontology 2006, Cambridge (England), 22-23 June 2006. 28 pp. [Abstract] [PDF Abstract] [Slides]
• SVPCA 2005. Taylor, Michael P. 2005. Sweet seventy-five and never been kissed: the Natural History Museum's Tendaguru brachiosaur. p. 25 in Paul M. Barrett (ed.), Abstracts volume for 53rd Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, The Natural History Museum, London, 7th-9th September 2005. 41 pp. [Abstract] [Slides]
• Progressive Palaeontology 2005. Taylor, Michael P. 2005. Upper limits on the mass of land animals estimated through the articular area of limb-bone cartilage. p. 18 in Anonymous (ed.), Conference programme and abstracts: Progressive Palaeontology 2005, University of Leicester, 15-16 June. 26 pp. [Abstract] [PDF Abstract] [Slides] [Godzilla slide]
• SVPCA 2004. Taylor, Michael P. 2004. A survey of dinosaur diversity by clade, age, country and year of description. p. 27 in Mark Evans and Richard Forrest (eds.), Abstracts volume for 52nd Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, 8th-11th September 2004. 38 pp. [Abstract] [Slides]

Conference Posters

• 3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress. Wedel, Mathew J., and Michael P. Taylor. 2021. Blood vessels provided the template for vertebral pneumatization in sauropod dinosaurs. [Abstract] [Slides PDF] (Note: "poster" in this venue means a self-expounding sequence of up to five slides.)
• SVPCA 2017. Michael P. Taylor and Mathew J. Wedel. 2017. A unique Morrison-Formation sauropod specimen with biconcave dorsal vertebrae. p. 78 in: Abstract Volume: The 65th Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy & The 26th Symposium on Palaeontological Preparation and Conservation. University of Birmingham: 12th–15th September 2017. 79 pp. [PeerJ Preprint] [PDF]
• SVPCA 2017. Mathew J. Wedel, Brian P. Kraatz, Michael P. Taylor and Jann Vendetti. 2017. Growth series of one: case studies in time-transgressive morphology. pp. 78-79 in: Abstract Volume: The 65th Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy & The 26th Symposium on Palaeontological Preparation and Conservation. University of Birmingham: 12th–15th September 2017. 79 pp. [PeerJ Preprint] [PDF]
• SVP 2009. Naish, Darren, Michael P. Taylor and Mathew J. Wedel. 2009. Extant animals provide new insights on head and neck posture in sauropods. p. 154A in: Program and Abstracts: 69th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology, September 23-26, 2009. 220 pp. [PowerPoint] [PDF]

Computer Science

In my day-job I'm a computer programmer with Index Data. Along the way, I've accumulated some minor publications in computer science.

• Taylor, Michael P. 2021. Modularity in FOLIO: Principles, Techniques and Tools. International Journal of Librarianship 6(2):3-12. doi:10.23974/ijol.2021.vol6.2.208 [IJOL page] [PDF] [local copy]
• Buntine, Wray L., Michael P. Taylor and Francois Lagunas. 2006. Standards for open source information retrieval. pp. 68-72 in: Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval (OSIR 2006). [PDF]
• Taylor, Mike, and Marc Cromme. 2005. Searching very large bodies of data using a transparent peer-to-peer proxy. pp. 1049-1053 in: Proceedings, Sixteenth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2005. doi:10.1109/DEXA.2005.170 [PDF]
• Taylor, Mike, and Adam Dickmeiss. 2005. Delivering MARC/XML records from the Library of Congress catalogue using the open protocols SRW/U and Z39.50. Paper 065-E in: World Library and Information Congress: 71th IFLA General Conference and Council "Libraries - A voyage of discovery", 14th-18th August 2005, Oslo, Norway. [PDF]
• Moen, William E., Sebastian Hammer, Mike Taylor, Jason Thomale and JungWon Yoon. 2005. An extensible approach to interoperability testing: The use of special diagnostic records in the context of Z39.50 and online library catalogs. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 42(1). 17 pages. [PDF]
• Buntine, Wray L., and Michael P. Taylor. 2004. Alvis: superpeer semantic search engine. pp. 461-466 in: Paola Hobson, Ebroul Izquierdo, Yiannis Kompatsiaris and Noel E. O'Connor (eds.) Knowledge-Based Media Analysis for Self-Adaptive and Agile Multimedia Technology -- proceedings of the European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology (EWIMT 2004). [PDF]

Popular Press

Popular Press on Open Access

• Taylor, Michael P. 2016. The world needs One Repo. Research in progress blog, Friday 22 January 2016. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2015. Licence absurdity. Times Higher Education, letter, Thursday 9 April 2015. [Online] [PDF]
           [Russian translation] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2013. Open access: who should pay? Euroscientist, Wednesday 25 September 2013. [Online] [PDF]
           [Russian translation] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2013. Institutional repositories have work to do if they're going to solve the access problem. Impact of Social Sciences, Wednesday 6 March 2013. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2013. How PeerJ Is Changing Everything In Academic Publishing. Techdirt, Tuesday 12 February 2013. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2013. PeerJ leads a high-quality, low-cost new breed of open-access publisher The Guardian, Tuesday 12 February 2013. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2013. Hiding your research behind a paywall is immoral. The Guardian, Thursday 17 January 2013. [Online] [PDF]
           [Russian translation] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. What does it cost to publish a Gold Open Access article? Impact of Social Sciences, Wednesday 19 December 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. Open access means a bright future for scientific research The Guardian, Tuesday 17 July 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. US petition could tip the scales in favour of open access publishing. The Guardian, Tuesday 22 May 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. Persistent myths about open access scientific publishing, The Guardian, Tuesday 17 April 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. Visibility is currency in academia but it is scarcity in publishing. The push for open access shows that academic publishers can't serve two masters. Impact of Social Sciences, Monday 26 March 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. Academic Publishing Is Broken. The Scientist, Monday 19 March 2012. [Online] [PDF] [Spanish translation]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. Open, moral and pragmatic. Times Higher Education, letter, Thursday 8 March 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. It's not academic: how publishers are squelching science communication. Discover Magazine's blog The Crux. Monday 21 February 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. The parable of the farmers and the Teleporting Duplicator. The Guardian, Friday 10 February 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. The future of academic publishing. The Independent, Thursday 9 February 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. Academic publishers have become the enemies of science. The Guardian, Monday 16 January 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2011. Peers, review your actions. Times Higher Education, Thursday 29 September 2011. [Online] [PDF]

BBC Walking With Dinosaurs web-site

• Friday 13 December 2013: A parent's guide to dinosaurs: how not to get caught out by your kids [PDF]
• Thursday 30 May 2013: A bipedal Diplodocus? It's not as crazy as it sounds... [PDF]
• Friday 24 May 2013: Dinosaurs for late developers: how to get into palaeontology by the back door [PDF]
• Monday 29 April 2013: What we want from Jurassic Park 4: dinosaur farms, pet raptors - and feathers [PDF]
• Friday 19 April 2013: Diplodocus with feathers? Why we should take fuzzy sauropods seriously [PDF]
• Tuesday 9 April 2013: The "biggest dinosaur" question is a healthy obsession [PDF]
• Monday 11 March 2013: How big were the biggest dinosaurs? Lost fossils tell a tantalising tale [PDF]
• Wednesday 6 March 2013: How sauropods like Argentinosaurus lived with the problems of being huge [PDF]

Other

• Taylor, Michael P. 2012. Science is enforced humility. The Guardian, Tuesday 13 November 2012. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2011. How I got to know thunder thighs, the dinosaur with a fearsome kick. The Guardian, Wednesday 9 March 2011. [Online] [PDF]
• Taylor, Michael P. 2011. Dinosaur discovery: 'thunder-thighs' dinosaur found in museum basement. The Telegraph, Monday 28 February 2011. [Online] [PDF]

Ph.D Dissertation

• Taylor, Michael P. 2009. Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK. Submitted 9th February 2009, defended 28th April. arXiv:1302.5142

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Contents

• Chapter 1. Sauropod dinosaur research: a historical review [published in Geological Society special volume]
• Chapter 2. A re-evaluation of Brachiosaurus altithorax Riggs 1903 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) and its generic separation from Giraffatitan brancai (Janensch 1914) [published in JVP]
• Chapter 3. An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England [published in Palaeontology]
• Chapter 4. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, U.S.A. [published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica]
• Chapter 5. Vertebral morphology and the evolution of long necks in sauropod dinosaurs [published in PeerJ]