Lost in a Sea of Science Data
Scott Carlson in The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 23, 2006) wrote an article called Lost in a Sea of Science Data. Carlson explores the current and future growth of scientific data, and the role...
View ArticleOpen Access Books from Caltech
Caltech has started a depository of open access books by Caltech authors. Subjects include chemistry, economics, geological & planetary sciences, mathematics, and mechanical engineering. The books...
View ArticleCase Supports Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006
Case has offered their support in this letter (PDF version). UNIVERSITY SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC ACCESS ACT EXPANDS Library groups commend twenty-three provosts for joining recent surge of support...
View ArticleRallying Behind Open Access
Rallying Behind Open Access Inside Higher Ed, July 28, 2006 If universities pay the salaries of researchers and provide them with labs, and the federal government provides those researchers with grants...
View ArticleMore Open Access Books from Caltech
Caltech has offered more open access books since my initial post. Thanks to Dana Roth (Caltech, Chemistry Librarian) for the update. Caltech has started a depository of open access books by Caltech...
View ArticleOAIster - Digital Collections from Hundreds of Institutions
OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Their goal is to create a collection of previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources...
View ArticleUSPTO Bans Wikipedia
Business Week (9/4/2006 Issue 3999, p12) has reported that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) will no longer accept Wikipedia entries as "accepted sources of information". I am...
View ArticleChemistry Central Journal - New Open Access, Peer-Reviewed, Online Journal
Chemistry Central Journal (ISSN 1752-153X) is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal recently launched by Chemistry Central. Chemistry Central, developed by the same team who created BioMed...
View ArticleBMC - Summary of Biomedical Funding Agency Policies on Open Access
BioMed Central has compiled a summary of the open access policies of different biomedical funders, linking to official policy statements from those funders where available.
View ArticleScience Commons
Science Commons, a project of the non-profit Creative Commons, is the sponsor and organizer of the Commons of Science Conference. Our goal is to promote innovation in science by lowering the legal and...
View ArticleLarry Page to Scientists
CNet News.com shares a image of Larry Page, co-founder of Google, speaking to the scientists at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). CNET reported that...
View ArticleChallenge to Society Publishers
Kimberly Douglas and Dana L. Roth, both of the California Institute of Technology, put forth a challenge for society publishers to not follow in the path of the commercial publishers. In addition, they...
View ArticleMathematical Biology Now Covered by Biology Direct
Biology Direct considers original research articles, hypotheses, comments, discovery notes and reviews in selected subject areas, and will eventually cover the full spectrum of biology. Subject areas...
View ArticleProject Gutenberg Texts on iPhone
Project Gutenberg, actually the e-reader that had access, was originally banned from the iPhone due to access to the Kama Sutra. It is now allowed. I am guessing there is much more "porn" on the iPhone...
View ArticleRequests Input About Public Access to Archived Federal-Funded Science...
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President, requests input from the community regarding enhancing public access to archived publications resulting...
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