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Free Science, One Paper at a Time
Howard Eisen, 1942-1987 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...
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Jonathan Eisen Frees (Almost All) His Father’s Papers
Jonathan EisenIn 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...
View Article“The Center of Gravity Has Shifted.” Carl Zimmer on the Arsenic Paper
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 will probably be its lasting...
View ArticleAcademic Publishers: Making Murdoch Look Good
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,...
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Testify: The Open-Science Movement Catches Fire
For years, the open science movement has sought to light a fire about the “closed” journal-publication system. In the last few weeks their efforts seemed to have ignited a broader flame, driven...
View ArticleIs the Open Science Revolution For Real?
Monty Python’s rebels ponder all they must replace if they kill the Romans The researcher rebellion against the closed research-and-publishing system, tallied most explicitly in a petition boycotting...
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Open-Science Roller Coaster Accelerates
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 science is speeding up a wee faster than many...
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Free Science, One Paper at a Time (Neuron Culture Moving Party Track 6)
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...
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John Hawks is Pissed
John Hawks John Hawks, the funny, fearless, adventurous anthropologist who writes one of the richest blogs in all academia, recently read an editorial at Current Biology that, “wishy-washing its way...
View ArticleOpen-access pioneer Michael Eisen introduces Kent Anderson, new publisher of...
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 importantly to him, it erodes the quality of the...
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