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 2011. looks at the attempt one scientist makes to free his father’s papers from the calcified structures […]
Continue reading →In perhaps the biggest action of the open-science movement, a list of researchers 1,600-strong and growing is petitioning against the policies of Elsevier, one of the largest science journal publishers. Neuron Culture blogger David Dobbs reports.
Continue reading →It’s no big secret that the scientific journal system, originally created to share scientific information, now operates mainly by restricting access to that information. The spring, in “Free Science, One Paper at a Time,” I wrote about what that walled garden feels like from the inside, as evolutionary biologist and extremophile microbiolgist Jonathan Eisen tried […]
Continue reading →1. The race for May’s top spot wasn’t even close: Free Science, One Paper at a Time, my rescued feature about how too much of science is trapped in an increasingly archaic journal structure, easily drew the most hits, running well into 5 figures to become one of Neuron Culture’s Top Ten hits ever. I’m […]
Continue reading →In a touching post at his blog, The Tree of Life, evo biologist and microbug master Jonathan Eisen reports that he has substantially completed the mission I described last week in my article Free Science, One Paper at a Time: finding and re-publishing his deceased father’s papers. Yesterday marked a major achievement in my goal […]
Continue reading →On Father’s Day three years ago, biologist Jonathan Eisen decided he’d like to republish all his father’s papers. His father, Howard Eisen, a biologist and a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, had published 40-some-odd papers by the time that he died by suicide at age 45. That had been in Febuary 1987, while […]
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