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Last week I posted an entry on Nature Publish Group, scientific publishing and web2.0. I'd like to add a couple of points, and throw out some links. I would like to emphasize two points: 1) Feasibility. Yes we all want open information, but how to do it? And how to make it financially feasible?…
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 to have done…
The Perimeter Institute will be hosting a workshop in September on "Science in the 21st Century": Times are changing. In the earlier days, we used to go to the library, today we search and archive our papers online. We have collaborations per email, hold telephone seminars, organize virtual…
I know that you know that I work for PLoS. So, I know that a lot of you are waiting for me to respond, in some way, to the hatchet-job article by Declan Bucler published in Nature yesterday. Yes, Nature and PLoS are competitors in some sense of the word (though most individual people employed by…