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Another Reason to Consider Open Access

Category: open access

Grant review sessions.

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Elsevier's New Open Access Policy...

Category: open access

...apparently involves reposting others' blog posts without permission or proper attribution. I'm being facetious here, of course, but it is quite ironic that Mike Dunford of The Questionable Authority just caught anti-open-access warrior Elsevier copying the majority of one of...

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Senate to Vote on Mandatory Public Access to NIH Research Results

Category: open access

Following the House, which passed its version in July.

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These Scientists Are PISD-off About PRISM

Category: open access

There's only one way to fight such absurdity... with more absurdity!

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Now That Is One Ugly PRISM

Category: open access

I've seen a prism distort light before, but I've never seen one distort information like this.

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House Approves Mandatory Public Access to NIH Research Results

Category: open access

The next step is the Senate.

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General Thoughts on the NIH

Category: funding of science

Regarding grant success rates, budget constraints, the Roadmap, biodefense, young investigators, and open access

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Ah, So That's How They Did It!

Category: academia

The first edition of the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) will be released at 11:00 pm EST tonight.

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Good News and Bad News for Open Access Publishing

Category: open access

Bad: PubMed Central isn't looking too hot. Good: UK research councils are starting to make public access manditory.

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A Natural Conflict of Interest as Nature Criticizes PLoS

Category: open access

Today's issue of Nature includes a particularly damning news story about the financial troubles facing the Public Library of Science, a publisher of several prestigious open access journals. In the article, Nature describes PLoS's difficulties and heavily stresses its continued...

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PLoS Takes On Science and Nature... and Blogs All About It!

Category: open access

Through its recently announced interdisciplinary journal PLoS ONE, the Public Library of Science appears poised to compete directly with the two leading scientific journals, Science and Nature. Now comes news that PLoS has started a series of blogs to promote this endeavor.

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To My Esteemed Critics

Category: blogosphere

Here at The Scientific Activist, we welcome criticism--intelligent criticism, that is (as opposed to unintelligible dribble like this***). Besides, when it comes to boosting traffic stats, any link is a good link, so I thought I should give a shout out to some of the nice folks who linked to me over the last couple of days, even though they basically disagreed with everything I wrote.

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From the Archives: Open Access and the Democratization of Science

Category: open access

In May, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 to the US Senate, which would require free public access to most government-funded research within six months of the research's publication. This post (from the archives) explores this piece of legislation and the issue of open access in depth.

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Nature Lets It All Hang Out Through Open Peer Review

Category: peer review

One of the fundamental principles of modern science, as well as other academic pursuits, is peer review. However, it's not a perfect system, and today's issue of Nature announced its own experiment in science--or democracy--by opening up the peer review process to all interested in participating and giving authors of submitting their papers to an open and public peer review process to take place online.

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