Open Science:
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...
Posted on May 13, 2008 11:11 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Open Access to Scholarly Publications (Updated May 10, 2008) from Sean Kass on Vimeo. by Sean Kass (Via)....
Posted on May 12, 2008 6:38 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Recordings from the Open Access panel in Trieste are now available online. The order was a little different - I went last....
Posted on May 8, 2008 10:11 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on May 8, 2008 9:03 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted on May 7, 2008 9:36 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on May 7, 2008 9:32 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on April 28, 2008 3:12 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
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Posted on April 24, 2008 4:07 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on April 23, 2008 1:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
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Posted on April 22, 2008 4:11 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on April 22, 2008 2:53 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on April 20, 2008 11:53 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on April 20, 2008 11:39 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on April 17, 2008 10:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on April 11, 2008 12:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on April 10, 2008 10:09 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 -...
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Posted on April 8, 2008 4:59 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted on April 8, 2008 11:52 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted on April 7, 2008 11:04 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on April 6, 2008 3:52 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
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Posted on April 5, 2008 10:25 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on March 25, 2008 11:27 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on March 25, 2008 11:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From here....
Posted on March 17, 2008 5:40 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted on March 14, 2008 11:57 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on March 14, 2008 11:24 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A new deal: Wiley-Blackwell and JoVE Unveil Groundbreaking Online Video Publications Moshe on TV:...
Posted on March 13, 2008 2:07 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
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Posted on March 9, 2008 3:11 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on March 9, 2008 1:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on March 8, 2008 11:50 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on March 4, 2008 10:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on March 3, 2008 8:26 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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,...
Posted on March 2, 2008 5:26 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 26, 2008 9:44 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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......
Posted on February 26, 2008 6:10 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 21, 2008 10:16 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 21, 2008 9:10 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 19, 2008 5:05 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 19, 2008 4:53 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 18, 2008 3:36 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 15, 2008 7:09 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 15, 2008 6:44 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 14, 2008 7:07 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 12, 2008 10:38 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 7, 2008 11:02 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 5, 2008 5:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 5, 2008 7:33 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on February 4, 2008 12:22 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on January 31, 2008 9:08 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on January 25, 2008 8:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on January 23, 2008 9:48 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
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Posted on January 23, 2008 9:18 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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,...
Posted on January 22, 2008 11:19 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on January 22, 2008 8:59 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on January 22, 2008 7:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on January 21, 2008 5:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on January 10, 2008 11:11 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on January 8, 2008 11:10 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on December 28, 2007 12:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on December 27, 2007 3:56 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on December 20, 2007 9:45 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on December 8, 2007 1:26 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on December 7, 2007 5:01 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted on December 7, 2007 2:46 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on December 5, 2007 12:02 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on December 4, 2007 1:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted on December 4, 2007 11:48 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Graham Steel, a vocal Open Access supporter, alerts me that the latest Mansbridge One on One interview on CBC features Richard Smi
