-
Archives
- October 2011
- July 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- April 2007
-
Meta
Category Archives: Science
Guest post on 1 year of NIH open access
The NIH Public Access Policy took effect on April 7, 2008. I have a guest post at Science Progress looking at the policy after a year in implementation.
Posted in Academia, Open access, Personal, Politics, Publishing, Science
Leave a comment
Preservation for scholarly blogs
I’ve wondered about preservation for new modes of scholarly communication and ephemera, e.g. scholarly blogs, mailing lists, etc. Others have suggested it recently as well. A cursory Googling finds a few others mulling the question, but not (at first glance) … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Digital preservation, Libraries, Science
3 Comments
Why not publish data?
I try to avoid writing things that may make me sound stupid, but this post falls in that category. Recently I was reading about efforts related to data sharing: technological infrastructure, curation, educating researchers, and the like. I was struck … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Open access, Science
9 Comments
On jurisdiction; or, letting copyright trump science
Rep. John Conyers has released his response to the widely-circulated open letter by Lawrence Lessig and Michael Eisen criticizing Conyers’ anti-open access bill, H.R. 801. Eisen, Steven Harnad, and Peter Suber have already responded ably to Conyers’ response. There’s one … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Copyright, Creative Commons, Education, Open access, Politics, Publishing, Science
Leave a comment
Liveblog, ex post facto: Science and human rights
I attended the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition launch event Jan. 14-16 in Washington, D.C.. I was able to take some notes, but not get online to post them at the time; I haven’t gotten around to posting them, … Continue reading
Sussing out the details on locus of deposit
My previous post on locus of deposit for scholarly self-archiving provoked a few reactions, as I thought it might. Stevan Harnad’s is the most thorough and notable. I think we each missed a few points. Let me make a few … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Free speech, Open access, Science
2 Comments
Authors: I don’t care where you deposit, just do it
One of the ongoing debates in open access regards the locus of deposit for self-archiving. That is: if researchers are posting a copy of their manuscript to be freely accessible online, where should they post it? The debate is usually … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Open access, Science
4 Comments
Liveblog: BRDI: Closing
I’m liveblogging the first meeting of the new Board on Research Data and Information today and yesterday. Standard liveblogging disclaimers apply. The presentation slides are on the meeting site. Because some of the slides are online, I’ll focus on what’s … Continue reading