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Posts Tagged ‘open access’
One step closer to open science
29, Jun 2011You know the news already: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust announced today that they are to support a new, top-tier, open access journal for biomedical and life sciences research. The three organisations aim to establish a new journal that will attract and define the very best research publications from across [...]
- In: Science 2.0|strategy
- Tags: open access, Open Data, Open Science, openness
Open science and the economic collapse
21, Sep 2010My colleague is interested in designing a better PCR machine and is collecting all the hardware information he can get. Today, after I’ve forwarded him a link to OpenPCR, a project aiming at constructing open source PCR hardware that anyone can build, he asked me what’s the point of making biotech equipment by yourself in [...]
In the discussion under my recent post on incompatibilities between open source and open data Bill Anderson pointed out frequent confusion between “open source” and “free software”. He cited Richard Stallman’s essay which argues that open source is a software development methodology, while free software is a social movement. Building on that, Bill wrote that [...]
- In: Comments|Science 2.0|strategy
- Tags: open access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source, openness
Open Data citation advantage
2, Aug 2010Quite recently my colleagues published a paper on genome-wide model of translation (in PLoS Computational Biology). They have used a number of different data, although in one case the data wasn’t available in the text or as a supplementary material – they needed to ask the other group for certain raw numbers from their experiment [...]
- In: Science 2.0
- Tags: citation advantage, open access, Open Data
One scientific journal, one scientific community
9, Apr 2010Image via Wikipedia There’s interesting relation between this comment by Richard Gordon and Bryan J. Poulin entitled “There is but one journal: the scientific literature” (posted under essay in PLoS Medicine entitled “Why current publication practices may distort science”): (…) Frankly, when downloading a paper, we pay more attention to the contents than the name [...]
- In: Science 2.0
- Tags: future, interdisciplinarity, open access, Open Science, plos, scientific literature
More on strategy for promoting Open Science
8, Apr 2010Cover via Amazon It seems obvious that science depends on communication although we tend to limit the scope of this word to communication of (raw) results and knowledge. Moreover, we rarely pay any attention to the way the message is transmitted, what is the perception of the message in the public, and finally, what is [...]
- In: Memetics|Science 2.0
- Tags: dueling loops, marketing, open access, Open Science, Science 2.0, strategy, thwink
Image via Wikipedia One of my host institutions, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences (note that the webpage is slightly outdated – we are about to launch a new, more interactive site soon) is about to adopt an institutional Open Access mandate. While we have a number of open repositories, this is [...]
- In: Science 2.0
- Tags: IBB PAS, mandate, open access, Poland
Available and relevant
23, Jan 2010Great question is asked on EPT blog: What would be the consequence of just a single butterfly wing-flap in, say, Sweden on some new medical development in Peru? For researchers to be able to use a new development from the opposite side of the world, such development simply has to be be available. Without OA, [...]
Open Access means people die
25, Oct 2011Reader beware, a rant ahead. Believe me, I waited 24 hours to calm down before writing this text. But a day passed and I’m still outraged by recent posts of Peter Murray-Rust entitled “Open Research Reports: What Jenny and I said (and why I am angry)” and “Open Access saves lives“. He made there following [...]