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My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com

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Category: Blogging • History of Science
Posted on: May 23, 2008 10:36 AM, by Coturnix

You have only a week left to submit your entries for the Blog about a classic science paper challenge. The links to early bird posts are already being collected and I hope there will be more soon. If you intend to write about a paper in the field of psychology, SciCurious discovered an awesome website where you can find all the classic articles in the history of psychology. Just yesterday, I saw the website where there will be such a repository of historical papers (and other materials: photos, anecdotes, etc.) in the Chronobiology field. This will be built over the next few months. I'll try to do my post over the weekend if I can.

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There's also a great Wikipedia page on Important Publications in Computer Science.

Posted by: John Dupuis | May 23, 2008 11:07 AM

Thank you - that is a great resource as well. I wonder if other fields have such repositories.

One thing that always bothers me is that in all the talking about Open Access, the focus is entirely on new papers. I want to see all the papers from the past freely available as well and this appears to be up to individual scientific societies.

I would also like to see this blogging initiative become regular - perhaps a monthly or even quarterly carnival.

Posted by: Coturnix | May 23, 2008 11:16 AM

I would also like to see this blogging initiative become regular - perhaps a monthly or even quarterly carnival.

Skulls in the Stars had a great idea initiating this and requesting contributions, and SciCurious started the links rolling with a pingback. A carnival of classic science papers would be excellent-I'd be happy to take a turn hosting it at my blog.

Posted by: Barn Owl | May 23, 2008 11:33 AM

I concur, I'd be really happy to do monthly or quarterly classic science papers, it's really interesting stuff!

Posted by: scicurious | May 23, 2008 4:32 PM

Here are the URLs for two websites with links to classic papers:

Neuroscience (Society for Neuroscience)-

http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=HistoryofNeuroscience_classicpapers

Genetics -

http://www.esp.org/foundations/genetics/classical/browse/

Posted by: Barn Owl | May 23, 2008 11:18 PM

As an aside, this reminds me of a term project from a CS advanced undergrad course I took - prof had about 5 'old' and 'classic' papers (old and classic being relative in CS), and allowed each student to choose one to provide a 'modern' implementation of the material discussed.

I now know more about graph embedding algorithms and pseudo-algol than I ever wanted to... (well - the algo itself was very cool - algol is not my friend though).

I'd have to think harder about how/whether this could be applied in other disciplines, but for CS (and probably for EE, Chem, ChemE) it's a great way to teach the material and develop some appreciation for the history and roots of the field.

Posted by: Daniel Rothman | May 29, 2008 5:39 PM

I taught a graduate seminar once in Behavioral Biology in which I paired a classic paper with a related recent one. That was fun!

Posted by: Coturnix | May 29, 2008 6:05 PM