- Publishers spending big bucks to try to stop the open-access publishing movement. Yes, these tactics are slimy, but are they not also a sign that open access is a real threat to commercial publishing?
- Speaking of free science reporting, check out Encephalon at Sharp Brains.
- Babel's Dawn describes ceremonial speech (based on my background in literary studies, I tend to call this "performative speech").
- Is it always rational to think of humans as rational?
- A calorie is a calorie, whether burned through exercise or saved through dieting.
- Meanwhile, the search for the Holy Grail of dieting continues.
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Ellen, what are you talking about? Too many acronyms!
Spell it out for us cavepeople...
"OA is a threat to NONprofit scientific societies."
Personally I believe if a nonprofit society can only exist by locking up scientific knowledge, then it doesn't deserve to exist. That said, there are models of open access publishing that are revenue neutral, and a serious discussion of these models is what is what is warranted, not fearmongering.