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I am the Online Community Manager at PLoS-ONE (Public Library of Science). My job is to try to motivate you to comment on the papers there. My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com

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Open Science:

The Open Sleep Journal and The Phylogeny of Sleep Database

One of the latest additions (just two days ago, I think) to the Directory of Open Access Journals is a journal that will be of interest to some of my readers - The Open Sleep Journal. The first volume has...

Open Access to Scholarly Publications (video)

Open Access to Scholarly Publications (Updated May 10, 2008) from Sean Kass on Vimeo. by Sean Kass (Via)....

Open Access in Italy

Recordings from the Open Access panel in Trieste are now available online. The order was a little different - I went last....

The Impact Factor Folly

The latest issue of Epidemiology features a (only somewhat tongue-in-cheek) article by Miguel A. Hernan: Epidemiologists (of All People) Should Question Journal Impact Factors. Well worth reading and thinking about: Developing a good impact factor is a nontrivial methodologic undertaking...

Open Access Directory (OAD)

Open Access Directory (OAD) is a wiki that contains all the information one may need and want in regard to Open Access Publishing, from jobs to research questions. You should bookmark it and check it out regularly....

Open Humanities Press

Peter Suber relays the announcement (and add some more) of the Open Humanities Press, a collection of seven Open Access journals (a humanities PLoS of sorts) in critical and cultural theory. Humanities bloggers have been way ahead of science bloggers...

UNESCO booklet on Open Access

UNESCO recently published and informative book: Open access to knowledge and information: scholarly literature and digital library initiatives; the South Asian scenario, which, from what I can see, can be easily modified for all other geographic areas as well. Perhaps...

EuroTrip '08 - Belgrade, Open Access

OK, I posted a lot of pictures of Belgrade and my Mom's food so far, but the real business was on Tuesday, when I gave two talks about Open Access, PLoS, Science 2.0, the future of the scientific paper, Open...

Science and the New Media

Sheril Kirshenbaum will be on a panel on Science and the New Media at the AAAS Forum On Science And Technology Policy on May 9th and, as bloggers tend to do, she is asking for questions, comments and ideas from...

Science 2.0 (repost)

I think I have a profile on Friendster - I don't know, I haven't checked since 2003. I have bare-bones profiles on MySpace, LinkedIn and Change.Org and I will get an e-mail if you "friend" me (and will friend you...

Science 2.0

Do you remember when Mitch Waldrop wrote a draft of an article about Science 2.0 and asked for community feedback? He got 125 comments. Using them, he has now finalized the text and it appears in today's edition of Scientific...

Open Access in Italian

The podcast of the radio interview with Derek Law and me about Open Access is now available online. Most of the show is in Italian, but if you cannot understand it, our interview is in English and it starts at...

Science Communication in the Age of Internet - in Belgrade

Yup, as soon as I land in Belgrade, I will be giving two lectures about Open Access and the Science Communication in the Age of Internet. The first one, this Tuesday at 11am, will be in the beautiful hall of...

NIH public access law explained

Peter Suber wrote the most clear, brief and to-the-point explanation of the new law (PDF). Worth reading and bookmarking. Along with the explanation of how it works, Peter also provided this handy table of myths about the new law that...

Another competitive edge of Open Access

Niyaz Ahmed did some stats on the Faculty of 1000 and came up with some interesting data: I did some analyses involving tools at F1000Biology to know how inclined are the opinion leaders in biological sciences about PLoSONE articles given...

Harold Varmus on NPR's Science Friday

Tomorrow at noon, tune into NPR's Science Friday, as you do every week anyway, I know, and you do not need to be told by me, but this time, make sure you hear Harold Varmus being interviewed about the implementation...

The Scientific Paper: past, present and probable future

A post from December 5, 2007: Communication Communication of any kind, including communication of empirical information about the world (which includes scientific information), is constrained by three factors: technology, social factors, and, as a special case of social factors -...

NIH public access law is now being implemented

As many of you may be aware, yesterday was the first day of the implementation of the new NIH law which requires all articles describing research funded by NIH to be deposited into PubMed Central within 12 months of publication....

Science in the 21st Century

Bee and Michael and Chad and Eva and Timo and Cameron will be there. And so will I. And many other interesting people. Where? At the Science in the 21st Century conference at the Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Ontario) on Sep....

I wish more people blogged about their own research the way Karen just did

About a month ago, Karen of The Beagle Project published a nifty paper in PLoS ONE. Now she wrote a blog post with the background story, the 'tacit knowledge' that usually does not appear in peer-reviewed literature but is essential...

Whassup?

You must have noticed that there wasn't too much effort on this blog over the past couple of weeks (except for the elaborate and too successful April Fools hoax). I've just been so busy lately. So, here is a quick...

NIH public access mandate

Scared publishers ask for a hearing and get an earful: Librarians and educators, meanwhile, strongly defended the NIH policy-and spoke of the lengthy process of consideration it has already gone through, urging that implementation now proceed as planned. In its...

Triangle Research Libraries Network Launches New Search Function

From the Library Journal: The Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) pioneered the nation's first consortial online catalog back in the 1980s, and this week, took that legacy a step further with the launch of "Search TRLN", which officials say adds...

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SciBarCamp

Toronto SciBarCamp starts tonight and I am so jealous for not being there. Perhaps next time. For now, I'll just follow it via blogs....

AAAS and NSF Communicating Science Workshop - April 3 - Raleigh, NC

Got an e-mail from AAAS and will try to go if at all possible: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and North Carolina State University, will be holding a...

News from JoVE

A new deal: Wiley-Blackwell and JoVE Unveil Groundbreaking Online Video Publications Moshe on TV:...

Science 2.0

On the Wired Science blog - The Internet Is Changing the Scientific Method: If all other fields can go 2.0, incorporating collaboration and social networking, it's about time that science does too. In the bellwether journal Science this week, a...

New in OA

Charles Leadbetter: People power transforms the web in next online revolution Anna Kushnir: Science Participation and Going Incognito Wobbler: Digital Scholarly Communication & Bottlenecks Jonathan A. Eisen: Open Evolution Peter Suber: Aiming for obscurity (the links within are important) Stian...

Wall Street Journal on Open Access

Information Liberation By DANIEL AKST: If your child has a life-threatening disease and you're desperate to read the latest research, you'll be dismayed to learn that you can't -- at least not without hugely expensive subscriptions to a bevy of...

Jane - the Journal/Author Name Estimator

Jane is the cool new tool that everyone is talking about - see the commentary on The Tree of Life, on Nature Network and on Of Two Minds. In short, the Journal/Author Name Estimator is a website where you can...

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Get yourself free PDFs of old biology/taxonomy books and papers courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library: Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a...

SAGE keeps opening up....

I just noticed recently, when looking up a paper in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, that SAGE publishing group is starting to offer the Open Access option to the authors in some of its Journals: Independent scholarly publisher, SAGE Publications,...

Open Education

There are three interesting, thought-provoking articles on Open Education today: The Digital Commons - Left Unregulated, Are We Destined for Tragedy? An Interview with Ahrash Bissell of the Creative Commons The Open Digital Commons - A Truly Endless Array of...

JoVE hits Big Time

Journal of Visualized Experiments signed a deal with Wiley-Blackwell to provide videos for Current Protocols: Wiley-Blackwell and JoVE Unveil Groundbreaking Online Video Publications Online methods videos go mainstream Visual journal partners with Wiley Related......

Discovering scholarly information and data

Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards March 27-28, 2008 Chapel Hill, NC Discovering scholarly information and data is essential for research and use of the content that the information community is producing and making available. The development of knowledge...

How to have your papers deposited into PubMed Central

Are you confused with the new NIH Policy and unsure as to what you need to do? If so, Association of Research Libraries has assembled a very useful website that explains the process step by step. But the easiest thing...

Anna Kushnir interviews Rose Reis

In my daily interviews I always ask: what new blogs did you discover at the Conference? If anyone asked me that question - and you know it's hard to surprise me! - one I'd pick would be the INFO Project...

Future Science Cyberstructure

Earlier today I went to UNC to talk about Science On The Web in Javed Mostafa's graduate course on Enabling Usability of Cyberinfrastructures for Learning, Inquiry, and Discovery. I showed and talked about the following sites: The rapidly growing List...

Open Access Beer!

What is the difference between Free Access Beer and Open Access Beer? You go to a bar to get your Free Access Beer. You sit down. You show your ID. The barista gives you a bottle. You don't need to...

Open Access at Harvard

When Harvard does something, all the others follow. Perhaps this is the tipping point for Open Access as a whole. Peter Suber and Gavin Baker have the best commentary and all the links to other worthy commentary in a series...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Via Peter Suber, there is now something new - PLoL, or, Public Library of Law: Searching the Web is easy. Why should searching the law be any different? That's why Fastcase has created the Public Library of Law -- to...

Obligatory Readings of the Day

The elephants in the room: How the GOP lost its way by Hal Crowther Kafkaesque Bureaucracies Impede Import of Scientific Goods in Brazil by Mauro Rebelo Open Science and the developing world: Good intentions, bad implementation? by Cameron Neylon Alternative...

Harvard considers Free Access

In today's NYTimes: At Harvard, a Proposal to Publish Free on Web: Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often...

danah boyd on Open Access publishing

Apophenia, danah boyd's blog, is one of the first blogs I ever discovered back in the depths of Time, certainly the first non-political blog, even before I found any science blogs. We finally got to meet last year at the...

Science+Art+Technology+Media - meetings around the World

There were already two Science Foo Camps (in summers of 2006 and 2007) and two Science Blogging Conferences (in winters of 2007 and 2008). But the hunger for such meetings is far from satiated. So, if you have time and...

Open Students

Open Students is a new blog for students about open access to research. It is run by Gavin Baker (who also recently joined Peter Suber at Open Access News - Congratulations!) and sponsored by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic...

Open Science at PSB 2009

Shirley of One Big Lab blog is trying to submit a proposal for an Open Science session to be held at the next Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Although the meeting is a whole year away, the deadline for proposals is...

Who's scooping whom and why this matters?

Aetosaurs. No, I have not heard of them until now. But that does not matter - the big story about them today is the possibility - not 100% demonstrated yet, to be fair - that some unethical things surround their...

'Working with the Facebook generation: Engaging students views on access to scholarship'

Here is a video of SPARC-ACRL Forum '08 on 12 January, 2008 at the Pennyslvania Convention Center in Philadelphia: The SPARC-ACRL Forum at ALA '08 entitled "Working with the Facebook generation: Engaging students views on access to scholarship." Panelists discuss...

ResearchBlogging.org

Dave and Co. have been working hard over the past few months and now (actually on Saturday at the Conference) Dave announces that ResearchBlogging.org is live and in action! The BPR3 site, where the entire initiative was hashed out and...

The first SPARKY Awards

On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom and the student blogging panel comes the announcement that SPARC has declared the winners of the first SPARKY Awards for student-generated videos on the theme...

Open Education Declaration

On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom, this initiative is really exciting: Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education, Call for Free, Adaptable Learning Materials Online Cape Town,...

Cool new Open Access Journal

From Sage Ross, via John Lynch come exciting news about a new Open Access Journal - Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science Spontaneous Generations is a new online academic journal published by graduate students at...

New Media and Science Communication

The Science Communication Consortium presents: DISCUSSION ON THE ROLES OF EMERGING MEDIA OUTLETS IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE Thursday, JAN 31st, 7-8:30pm Mount Sinai School of Medicine, East Building Seminar Room (1425 Madison Ave at 98th St, NYC) A discussion of how...

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) Workshop - February 4th 2008

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) Workshop - February 4th 2008: Few people would argue that good communication is the lifeblood of good science - and the Web is opening up a whole new world of possibilities. UK PubMed Central is ideally...

Science 2.0 article in Scientific American

M. Mitchell Waldrop (author of the delightful book Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos) interviewed me and a bunch of others back in August about the changing ways of science communication. I completely forgot about...

The most exciting job in science publishing can be yours!

PLoS ONE is the first and (so far) the most successful scientific journal specifically geared to meet the brave new world of the future. After starting it and bringing it up from birth to where it is now one year...

New on.....Publishing

In the wake of the signed omnibus bill that funds NIH and ensures open deposition of NIH-funded research, here are some thoughtful questions: Why the NIH bill does not require copyright violation: The great advantage of the requirement to deposit...

Victory for Open Access!

Yesterday, President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) which, among else, mandates the repository of all NIH-funded research into PubMedCentral within at most 12 months after publication. Until now, the placement of NIH-funded research papers into...

The Impacted Factor in need of Cleansing

I buried this among a bunch of other cool links yesterday, but there was a study the other day, in the Journal of Cell Biology, that seriously calls in question the methodology used by Thompson Scientific to calculate the sacred...

New on.... Open Access and Science 2.0

Subscription-supported journals are like the qwerty keyboard: Are there solutions? One reason for optimism is that changing how we pay the costs of disseminating research is not an all-or-nothing change like switching from qwerty to Dvorak keyboards. Some new open-access...

Encouraging authors to place their papers into open repositories

How to move an article from TA to OA? It does not even have to be from a peer-reviewed journal. Graham Steel explains: he contacted the author and asked him to deposit the article into an open repository. So, now...

The benefits of Open Access Publishing for students in higher education

The benefits of Open Access Publishing for students in higher education (video): Most students in higher education have some experience with Open Access when doing their deskresearch. They appreciate the free access of scholar publications on the World Wide Web....

The Scientific Paper: past, present and probable future

Communication Communication of any kind, including communication of empirical information about the world (which includes scientific information), is constrained by three factors: technology, social factors, and, as a special case of social factors - official conventions. The term "constrained" I...

Cost of publishing in OA journals

Bill Hooker: But the next time you hear someone talk about the "cost" of publishing in OA journals, please point 'em here. And the 'here' of that sentence is this post which should disabuse you, once for all, of the...

David Cohn on Science Journalism and Web 2.0

David writes: Community is no longer a dirty or scary word. Sciam, Seed, in the US, Germany and all over the world. Online communities are becoming understood and a valued commodity. When Google bought YouTube I said the price they...

Richard Smith on Open Access

Graham Steel, a vocal Open Access supporter, alerts me that the latest Mansbridge One on One interview on CBC features Richard Smi