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"maff" |
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09 Oct 2003 02:41:56 PM |
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Publish and be praised |
Publish and be praised
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/opinion/story/0,12981,1058578,00.html
Michael Eisen on why it's high time the results of scientific research
were freely available to everyone
Thursday October 9, 2003
The Guardian
Scientific publishing is undergoing a revolution. The staid scientific
journal - born in 1665 with the Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society, and largely unchanged until the past decade - has gone
online. Virtually every important journal in science, technology and
medicine produces an electronic version alongside, or instead of, its
printed issues, and these online versions have largely replaced print
in day-to-day use.
This technological revolution, perhaps as significant as the invention
of the printing press, has the potential to dramatically increase the
impact of scientific discoveries. Yet it remains largely untapped -
blocked by a publishing industry stubbornly clinging to an outdated,
yet highly profitable, business model that once made sense but now
stands as a significant barrier to scientific progress.
Public Library of Science
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Public+Library+of+Science%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Public+Library+of+Science%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Public+Library+of+Science%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Public%20Library%20of%20Science&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "maff" |
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13 Oct 2003 05:49:28 AM |
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Publish and be praised
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/opinion/story/0,12981,1058578,00.html
Michael Eisen on why it's high time the results of scientific research
were freely available to everyone
Thursday October 9, 2003
The Guardian
Scientific publishing is undergoing a revolution. The staid scientific
journal - born in 1665 with the Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society, and largely unchanged until the past decade - has gone
online. Virtually every important journal in science, technology and
medicine produces an electronic version alongside, or instead of, its
printed issues, and these online versions have largely replaced print
in day-to-day use.
This technological revolution, perhaps as significant as the invention
of the printing press, has the potential to dramatically increase the
impact of scientific discoveries. Yet it remains largely untapped -
blocked by a publishing industry stubbornly clinging to an outdated,
yet highly profitable, business model that once made sense but now
stands as a significant barrier to scientific progress.
Public Library of Science
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Public+Library+of+Science%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Public+Library+of+Science%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Public+Library+of+Science%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Public%20Library%20of%20Science&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Publishing progress
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1061607,00.html
Leader
Monday October 13, 2003
The Guardian
Ensuring that knowledge spreads through society is one of the key
challenges of the modern age. Stimulating understanding is important
for economic progress and technical advancement. To make this possible
should be easy: a characteristic of knowledge is that one person's use
does not lessen another's. Even better if it is inexpensive to make
new ideas available to someone else. For example, reading about a new
scientific development and lending someone an article about it
involves not much more than the cost of the text. Until now the
editing, printing and distribution costs have meant that the price of
academic journals were controlled by publishing houses. But the
internet offers a chance to change all that, and today sees the most
high-profile attempt to do so. Being launched is the first journal of
a publishing house, the Public Library of Science, which aims to give
away research for free.
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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