OpenAccess:
Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: alpine email
By now I assume you've experimented with Alpine, as a character-based email client. Well, I have another tip for you....
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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ethnography
Amazon Dot Com is a public utility. Make them do the right thing.
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Posted by Greg Laden at 8:58 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenAccess
PLoS ONE now has a community blog. You an see it here and read Bora's take on it here. This is in part to mark the fife thousandth paper published by PLoS ONE, and the growth of the on line community to a level that...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenSource
... Not politically better, not feel good better, not any of that. Well, yes, that too. But for all areas where Open Source is developed, it it simply better technologically. Anybody telling you different is selling you a bill of goods. I tried to say...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 10:03 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Paleontology
PLoS ONE is a veritable fire hose of OpenAccess research. Which is nice, but how do you browse a fire hose? By using the PLoS ONE collections you can track your favorite topic or delve into the earlier literature or just browse around. And now,...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 6:53 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenAccess
CALL TO ACTION: Ask your Representative to oppose the H.R. 801 - The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act (from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access) February 11, 2009 Last week, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (Rep. John Conyers, D-MI) re-introduced a bill...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 1:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenAccess
... are not confined to any one area of interest. Check out this post on How Not to Manage Your Image at Almost Diamonds. It is all about this picture: Well, it's not really all about that picture, but that picture might be what draws...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 8:47 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenAccess
The publishing industry is dangerous. Why? Because it is big and rich, but it is also in danger. The publishing industry, like the music industry, and like the commercial proprietary software industry, faces structural reorganization of the markets served and uncertainty in the flow of...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 9:01 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday was Open Access Day and there was a blogging competition designed to promote Open Access and stuff. People were asked to write about Open Access, address certain issues, and use the phrase "Open Access Day" in their blogs. These blog posts were then gathered...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 2:32 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks