OpenAccess
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Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research embraces open access
Posted by Greg Laden on September 12, 2012 Some interesting news from the Open Access front: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) today announced the membership agreement with BioMed Central and SpringerOpen. Publication costs for research articles published by researchers funded by NWO for articles published no later than 2008, who chose to publish via BioMed Central will now automatically be covered…
PLoS Currents is expanding
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2010 At this very moment, PLoS Currents is expanding. Here is the information from PLoS:
Please help a guy out
Posted by Greg Laden on July 24, 2010 I’ve mentioned before that there is a web page set up by Abel Pharmboy at Terra Sigillata to raise some money for Bora Zivkovic, recently of Scienceblogs.com but now detached from that network. Bora is the community organizer for PLoS, and is a scientist interested in biological clocks, which is why his blog was named…
Saving the Saba Bank with Open Access Publishing
Posted by Greg Laden on May 20, 2010 The Saba Bank is a major coral reef in the Caribbean which sports a high level of biodiversity but also attracts oil tankers, and is thus an important natural area under threat. The tankers anchor here to avoid paying fees in various ports, but the anchors themselves drag along the reef and cause havoc. There…
Amazon Dot Com IS a different kind of thing.
Posted by Greg Laden on January 31, 2010 I told you so, but most of you would not listen. Amazon has tossed an entire publishing company off its site (hat tip: H.G.) because that company would not comply with Amazon’s universally imposed Kindle edition pricing strategy. That places Amazon at the decision making table where the publishers and the market (the buyers of…
#scio10 Science Online 2010 recollections and reflections on the sessions I attended
Posted by Greg Laden on January 18, 2010 Last weekend I attended Science Online 2010, which is a conference of science communicators with a heavy mix of bloggers, many journalists and others from the print industry, an increasingly large number of book authors, and OpenX (X=access, notebook, science, or whatever) advocates and practitioners.
Out of place oak is 13 thousand years old
Posted by Greg Laden on January 2, 2010 One of the world’s oldest plants turns out to be a 13,000 year-old scrub oak (Quercus palmeri, or Palmer’s Oak) in Southern California. Apparently this tree has survived for so long, despite the fact that it was born in the ice age and there have been numerous climate changes since then, by cloning itself, hiding…
Raptors and their Talons
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2009 Raptors and their Talons are the subjects of a blog post on the DC Birding Blog called “How Raptor Talons Fit Their Prey” This post, which is quite excellent and that I highly recommend, on the November Plos Blog Post of the Month Award. We hope blog post author John Beetham will enjoy his trip…
PLoS rolls out article level metrics
Posted by Greg Laden on September 17, 2009 And it’s on You Tube!
The OpenAccess Mashup
Posted by Greg Laden on September 10, 2009 Hat Tip: Who Else!?!!???
Medical Ghostwriting Unethically Pushed Hormone Replacement Therapy
Posted by Greg Laden on August 21, 2009 Ghostwriting, in the scientific medical literature, is the production of marketing literature which is then disguised as scientific literature. Part of this disguise is the appending of “authors” who are actual scientists who would normally write their own papers. Newly unveiled court documents show that ghostwriters paid by a pharmaceutical company played a major role…
Finally, Open Access Government
Posted by Greg Laden on July 1, 2009 The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Data.gov…
The secret inner workings of PLoS ONE revealed
Posted by Greg Laden on June 26, 2009 I have obtained a document that describes the secret, inner workings of the on line publication PLoS ONE. The document also exposes future plans for the enterprise. The link is below the fold.
Librarians = Open Access and New Media Advocates
Posted by Greg Laden on May 24, 2009 hat tip Bora, where you can find more.
Amazon Dot Com is a different kind of thing
Posted by Greg Laden on April 13, 2009 It is a ground breaking company, it is a bookstore that is mega mega like few other companies are. It is a bookstore that is a huge corporation. Think about that for a second. Think about bookstores in the old days then think about this thing, Amazon Dot Com. A bookstore that is leading the…
Change in Publication Policy: Journal of Neurophysiology
Posted by Greg Laden on January 25, 2009 If you are interested in OpenAccess and related issues, please attend to this item at DrugMonkey: Pre-Publication Policy at the Journal of Neurophysiology
New Synchroblogging Contest! Do Not Miss This Opportunity!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 11, 2008 Bloggers unite. Unite in time! PLoS is holding it’s second syncrhoblogging contest (the first one of which was one in part by yours truly). The plan: Using Research Blogging Dot Org as an assimilator, write up a PLoS paper and blog it on the 18th of December, which is PLoS’s birthday. To be more exact…
Yet Another PLoS Success Story, and some interesting stuff about sex and genes.
Posted by Greg Laden on August 13, 2008 From Sex, Genes and Evolution, a story of publishing in PLoS Open Access Journal: My lab has taken its initial journey on the PLoS ONE train. Yesterday, our paper entitled “An Expanded Inventory of Conserved Meiotic Genes Provides Evidence for Sex in Trichomonas vaginalis” was published in PLoS ONE. It’s a updated and detailed report…
PLoS In Nature : The Big Picture
Posted by Greg Laden on July 6, 2008 OA pillars The following are excerpts from the journal Nature regarding the Public Library of Science. These were located with a simple search for the phrase “Public Library of Science.” For each item, I provide the source, and a selected bit of text. I have no selection criteria to report, but I do have a…
Prozac and Placebos
Posted by Greg Laden on March 6, 2008 Late last month, I put up a quick post, New-generation antidepressants do not produce clinically significant improvements in depression, that addressed a PLoS published metastudy of interest. I was careful to use the phrasing from the paper as the title of my post, and to provide only the author’s summary, because I knew this was…
Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival 33
Posted by Greg Laden on January 30, 2008 Welcome to the Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival #33, ‘specializing’ in the four fields of anthropology. The previous edition of 4SH can be found at Testimony of the Spade, and the next edition will be hosted by Our Cultural World. The main page for Four Stone Hearth has additional information on the carnival, and you…
The knature of knowldge
Posted by Greg Laden on December 18, 2007 I wanted to point out two interesting posts both having to to with the nature of knowledge, or as we call it here in Minnesota (where the “k” in “Knute” is proudly pronounced).
Million Book Project Flawed?
Posted by Greg Laden on November 27, 2007 We are told that “the Million Book Project has exceeded its goal of digitizing one million books by 2007. ” Well, I can think of a million books that I’d never want to look at, and I can think of a million books that I would give up my life to preserve. Or your life,…
Open Access News
Posted by Greg Laden on November 16, 2007 Medical Wiki; Creative Commons in OpenOffice; Dead Sea Scrolls; PLoS; Mesozoic Cow …
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