A nice article in the HHMI Bulletin:
Slowly, however, the culture is changing, not only through blogs but also by means of open notebooks, open publishing, and other interactive models. Those involved call it Science 2.0, an effort to harness the capabilities of the Internet to help scientists communicate better among themselves as well as to the public at large.
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Yesterday's lab meeting went fine. Afterwards I got a chance to flip through some journals that I've ignored for the past 2-3 weeks.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute has announced a policy to
promote open-access publication of scientific papers. They
are not only supporting it philosophically, but financially as well.
In fact, they are not only supporting it, but requiring
From the HHMI website:
Do you remember that letter in which the editors of The Journal of Cell Biology criticized Howard Hughes Medical Institute for capitulating to Elsevier?