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 importantl...
John Hawks, the funny, fearless, adventurous anthropologist who writes one of the richest blogs in all academia, recently read an editorial at Current Biology t...
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...
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 scien...
Monty Python’s rebels ponder all they must replace if they kill the Romans The researcher rebellion against the closed research-and-publishing system, tal...
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 ...
It’s no big secret that the scientific journal system, originally created to share scientific information, now operates mainly by restricting access to th...
In a wonderful post at Slate, Carl Zimmer describes the one wonderful thing about the whole #arseniclife paper published last November, and has identified what ...
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 des...
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 an...