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 New on.... Open Access and Science 2.0

Subscription-supported journals are like the qwerty keyboard:

Are there solutions? One reason for optimism is that changing how we pay the costs of disseminating research is not an all-or-nothing change like switching from qwerty to Dvorak keyboards. Some new open-access journals are very prestigious. Granting agencies are giving strong 'in-principle' support to open access publishing, and my last grant proposal's budget included a hefty amount for open-access publication charges. And libraries are looking for ways to escape the burden of subscription charges.

This is an interesting idea: an Open Access journal for brief notes and updates, i.e., parts of papers.

Is the End of the Print Journal Near?: New ARL Report Examines This Issue

Related to the three posts above: The Scientific Paper: past, present and probable future

Open Access and Accessibility for the Print Disabled. Of course. Open for Everyone!

Sharing, Privacy and Trust in a Networked World "on the potential roles of social networks for libraries".

At this lab, everyone is required to maintain a science blog, and response: Why take the risk of writing a research blog? Read the comments on both posts as well.

The Ethics of Being an Open Access Publisher

WHO embargoes health information

Listen to Peter Murray-Rast's talk at Berlin5 on Open Access.

Listen to the recording of Jean-Claude Bradley's talk on Open Notebook Science.

Sequence the genomes of microbes or yourself, then plug the genomes into the Interactive Tree of Life.

Nurturing your talent in academia - some good ideas to think about.

CC, Open Access, and moral rights and Intellectual Property Rights: Wrong for Developing Countries?.

Re-writing for Proseminar:

It's time to share another round of student writing! I asked students in the Proseminar course at USU (in which all faculty take three week turns introducing students to their research interests) to put together a paper about issues related to open education. The twist (there always is one) is that they were to write as little of the paper as possible. You see, wholesale plagiarism is discouraged, but weaving together a coherent piece from ten or fifteen different extant sources is tough and an excellent chance to get some first hand experience with reuse. =) Here are links and some summaries to these re-writing exercises, in which students assembled papers from pre-existing pieces:

Behold! The New Anti-Open Access FUD

Both this article and this article completely forget that scientists at universities are also academics and also bloggers (just look around scienceblogs.com for a start)!!! Why such focus on the humanities blogs in the first place? Where did that come from?

Dancing with words:

There is a great attraction to publishers in finding ways to describe Restricted Access as open. Carried to its logical conclusion, all publications thus become Open Access. Some are Delayed-For-A-Bit Open Access, others are Quite-A-Lot-Delayed Open Access, some are Very-Delayed Open Access and the rest - where the publisher never intends to make them freely available at all - are simply Permanently-Delayed Open Access. You see, what is there to complain about?

Open Science project on domain family expansion

Bursty work. Sort of... how science works, too. Not detectable from publications, though.

Corie Lok: Bringing science out of the dark ages

John Wilbanks: No tenure for Technorati: Science and the Social Web and Seeding the Social Web for Science

Is knowledge 'property'?