Is the Open Science Revolution For Real?
Monty Python’s rebels ponder all they must replace if they kill the Romans The researcher rebellion against the closed research-and-publishing system, tallied most explicitly in a petition boycotting...
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Open Science Revolt Occupies Congress
U.S. Capitol, by ttarasiuk. Some rights reserved; details below post The open-science revolt, catalyzed just a few weeks ago as a reaction to publisher Elsevier’s backing of a clumsy bill introduced to...
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On the Reading Table: Money, Habits, & Open Science
I’m going to give this a run: A post every week or so on what I’m reading , have recently read, or have poked through enough to get a decent sense of. The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers,...
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Elsevier Boycott Not a Petition, But “A Declaration of Independence”
So says computer programmer and sauropod fan Mike Taylor in a particularly rich rallying cry at Discover’s “The Crux” blog. The ongoing boycott of academic-publishing giant Elsevier — almost 7000...
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Open-Science Geeks Invite Obama Onto Roller Coaster
The ride's fun only if you lean forward. Will Obama climb in? The open-science movement, having exploded over the last year in its efforts to make science work more collaboratively and flow more openly...
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Open-Science Roller Coaster Accelerates
Biophysicist and open-science fan Stephen Curry, in The inexorable rise of open access scientific publishing, at The Guardian, notes that the move to open science is speeding up a wee faster than many...
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Free Science, One Paper at a Time (Neuron Culture Moving Party Track 6)
Below find #6 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, posted as I move the blog here. This piece, originally published in May...
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We Got Your Real-Time Open-Science Anthropology Right Here
Scientists 100 feet underground at the Rising Star excavation carefully remove part of a hominid skull buried there for ages. Photo by Garrreth Bird, used with permission of National Geographic. One of...
View ArticleOpen-access pioneer Michael Eisen introduces Kent Anderson, new publisher of...
Kent clearly does not like open access. He thinks it is bad for scholarly publishing – that it undercuts publisher’s ability to make money, and, more importantly to him, it erodes the quality of the...
View ArticlePaxil shown unsafe for teens, drugmaker congratulates self for sharing...
This post got an upgrade: The revised, expanded version is now at The Atlantic. Many thanks to the folks at The Atlantic for picking it up. If you need a teaser: One night in 2002, Sara Bostock woke in...
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