OpenAccess:
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...
Posted on August 13, 2008 5:04 PM • 3 Comments •
PLoS ONE. You are ONE today. Does this mean that starting today you are PLoS Two? For a recent history of the Public Library of Science, see this earlier post....
Posted on August 4, 2008 8:13 AM • 2 Comments •
Austrian Franz Sikora was a fossil hunter and merchant of ancient bones working in the 19th centuyr. In 1899 he found the first known specimen, which was to become the type fossil, of Hadropithecus stenognathus in Madagascar. This is an extinct lemur. To be honest,...
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Posted on July 30, 2008 11:49 PM • 1 Comments •
Why write a thousand comments when I can write one post? My recent post, Are Gnome and Ubuntu ruining the Linux Desktop? has garnered a lot of interesting comments, including some with useful information, some thoughtful commentary, the scratchings of a couple of wet hens...
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Posted on July 28, 2008 8:31 PM • 9 Comments •
Consider this comment by Anders Norgaard of Spain, on the current Open Access discussion: ...For society and everyone who is not Nature (or other Toll-Access, high overhead journals) the framing [of the discussion as provided by Nature] does not make sense. The debate is part...
Posted on July 8, 2008 1:37 PM • 0 Comments •
I've noticed that the current discussion of Open Access has produced, on my site, a high ratio of comments to visitors. There are very few people actually reading these posts (relatively speaking) but lots of talking. Passionate positions among few people. I would like to...
Posted on July 7, 2008 10:18 PM • 1 Comments •
The House of Commons (U.K.) Select Committee on Science and Technology investigated Open Access publishing alternatives, and pursuant to this obtained written evidence from Nature Publishing Group consisting of answers to specific questions about "pay to publish." Here are excerpts from the document. Given...
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Posted on July 5, 2008 2:08 PM • 5 Comments •
Hans Reiser asks for a new lawyer (see below) This first item is not exclusively Linux at all... Remember the effort by Firefox to break a downloading record? They did it. Guinness has given Firefox the record, officially. Over eight million hamburgers sold... The...
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Posted on July 5, 2008 1:25 PM • 4 Comments •
PLoS The flap that started with the ill advised commentary by Delcan Butler started out looking like it MIGHT be an Orwellian, perhaps Nixononian attempt by a well established publishing icon in the fields of science to damage an up and coming competitor, the...
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Posted on July 5, 2008 10:51 AM • 6 Comments •
Nature (left) vs. OpenAccess A number of bloggers, including myself, had recently responded to a news item in Nature by suggesting that anti-OpenAccess and anti-PLoS position taken by the author, Delcan Butler, constituted an attack of one company against another. How silly of us...
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Posted on July 5, 2008 1:17 AM • 47 Comments •
