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Pubget: A New Interweb Toy for the Life Sciences

Category: Open Access

"Pubget: ze search engine for ze PDFs from ze life-science journals, yes." I've said on occasion that the surest way to convert a scientist to a fervent Open Access advocate is to lock them for a week in a place...

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On Resublimated Thiotimoline and the Transformative Hermeneutics of Open Access

Category: Open Access

Fed up with being spammed with invitations from Bentham Science to publish in their journals, Philip Davis decided to do something about it. Using the SCIgen programme, he created a random, content-free computer science paper, "Deconstructing Access Points": The synthesis...

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Tally of Elsevier's Fake Medical Journals Now Reaches 9

Category: Open Access

It all began with the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine. Then, the story continued with six more Elsevier "journals" turning out to be advertisements for corporate sponsors. Now, amid a flurry of buck-passing and corporate temporizing, the total...

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UNM Students Protest Textbook Prices

Category: Open Access

The University of New Mexico's Public Interest Research Group presented an appeal at a faculty meeting this week on behalf of students who've grown fed up with high textbook prices. According to the university's newspaper, the UNMPIRG presented What I...

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Stacey on Eddy on Opening Up Education

Category: Bibliophilia

My meta-review of S. Eddy's book review in PLoS Biology leads me into familiar curmudgeon territory.

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Today's Toy: ScribTeX

Category: Software

Just a couple days ago, I was thinking how neat it would be to have a wiki which uses TeX syntax for its markup language and had the ability to make nicely typeset output. (Instiki does the latter, thanks to...

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How are Consultants to SF Movies Compensated?

Category: Popularization

TR Gregory finds an interesting article on the rôle science consultants have in the production of visual fiction. Regrettably, Kirby (2003) is not Open Access, so I can't get my electronic fingers on it right now. (The surest way to...

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Writing Spaces Calls for Proposals

Category: Bibliophilia

Here's an interesting project: Writing Spaces is an effort to build a series of educational essay collections on writing, all of which will be Open Access and licensed under Creative Commons. With your participation, Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing will...

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Censorship of a Fraudulent Student Paper?

A high-school student in Franklin County, Virginia drew media attention when a school administrator refused to allow his "opinion piece" on biological evolution to appear in the school's news magazine, but it now appears that the essay in question was...

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Shorter Elsevier

The case of the journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals is a moderately long and troubling one; before I write anything else about it, I should try to compress what's happened so far. Yo, dudes, it's Elsevier. This journal we've got...

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