We've all been there. The project that never works, no matter how sensible your hypothesis, how elegant your retrosynthesis. You've resorted to trying those wonderfully obscure journals (The Journal of Serbian Chemical Society is a personal favourites, but there is a Baliey group in-joke there!!) and it still fails.

No progress, no exciting new data, no publications, right? Well as it stands, yes. But now there is a new journal that is trying to fight against the problem of positive bias in the literature: The All Results Journal:Chem. Your papers will undego peer review, they expect you to have repeated your weird experiment at least three times to remove human error, and it is open access so everyone can learn from your "mistakes" and save themselves some time, money and stress. Chemistry Blog goes into a bit more detail if you are interested.

I think something like this is badly needed, and should be supported. Of course, it might be difficult to convince your boss of this, but in time we will become the bosses, and so we should remember this little journal for that time. Or perhaps RSC publishing could pick this up and properly promote it??