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Detecting Asteroids, Meteors Takes On New Urgency

Elizabeth Weise and Dan Vergano | USA Today | February 18, 2013

A meteor-mapping satellite is envisioned that could serve as a space sentry to detect future close encounters and allow scientists to better protect the planet. Read More »

Did Commercial Journals Use The NYT To Smear Open Access?

David Bollier | David Bollier | April 11, 2013

A story on the front page of the New York Times a few days ago cleverly smeared open access scholarly publishing as somehow responsible for the rise of low-quality, pseudo-academic conferences and OA journals. Read More »

Did Scientists Just Solve The Bee Collapse Mystery?

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | May 20, 2014

It's a hard-knock life, scouring the landscape for pollen to sustain a beehive. Alight upon the wrong field, and you might encounter fungicides, increasingly used on corn and soybean crops, and shown to harm honeybees at tiny levels. [...] Read More »

Direct Submissions Of Data To ChEMBL And The Open PHACTS Project

Stefan Senger | ChEMBL-og | May 8, 2013

Don’t we just love the fact that these days so much bioactivity data is freely available at no cost (to the end user)? I think we do. The more, the better. So, what would your answer be if someone asked you if you consider it to be a good idea if they would deposit some of their unpublished bioactivity data in ChEMBL? Read More »

Discussing The Benefits Of Open Access In Science

Lia Steakley | Scope | July 24, 2012

Last week, the European Commission pledged to offer free access to publicly funded scientific research and set a goal of making 60 percent of studies and papers produced with taxpayer dollars available by 2016. Read More »

Documentary Explores Use Of Antibiotics In Food Animals

Lydia Zuraw | Food Safety News | October 15, 2014

On Tuesday night, PBS aired FRONTLINE’s two-part documentary exploring the increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance. The first half of “The Trouble with Antibiotics” focused on the science and politics behind the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals, presenting the history of the practice and attempts to link human illnesses back to animal antibiotics...

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Does Green Open Access Rot The Brain?

Joseph Esposito | The Scholarly Kitchen | October 23, 2013

The title of this post is link bait, of course.  Green OA does not rot the brain and it is reckless and irresponsible even to suggest it.  Heh.  Stranger things, and worse, have happened, even here on the Kitchen, where truth reigns supreme. Read More »

Does Science Need 'Open Evaluation' Before 'Open Access?'

Staff Writer | Science Codex | November 14, 2012

In an editorial accompanying an ebook titled "Beyond open access: visions for open evaluation of scientific papers by post-publication peer review," Nikolaus Kriegeskorte argues that scientists, not publishers, are in the best position to develop a fair evaluation process for scientific papers. Read More »

Easier Access To PLOS Data

Liz Allen | PLOS.org | January 30, 2013

You’ve always relied on PLOS to make scientific and medical research freely accessible to all. Now we’re introducing a number of tools and services to unlock the full potential of the data that currently exists in the Figures and Supporting Information files of our journals but has to this point been just beyond easy reach and these include: Read More »

eLife Produces Open Science Podcast Series

Press Release | eLife | July 25, 2013

eLife, an open access (OA) journal covering research in the life and biomedical sciences, will produce a podcast series with The Naked Scientists, broadcasters who present easy-to-understand science to the general public. Read More »

Elsevier And Kitware Bring 3D Visualization Tools And Techniques To ScienceDirect

Press Release | Elsevier, Kitware, ScienceDirect | October 15, 2013

[Elsevier] and [Kitware] today announced that Elsevier journals offer the opportunity to upload 3D datasets when submitting a paper for publication. This way, once published, readers can interactively explore 3D datasets next to the online article on ScienceDirect. Read More »

Elsevier Clamps Down On Academics Posting Their Own Papers Online

Olivia Solon | Wired | December 17, 2013

Academic publisher Elsevier has been targeting open access websites and universities that are posting their own academic articles online with takedown notices for copyright infringement. Read More »

Elsevier Costs Too Much

Polly Thistlethwaite | Miss Informed | May 13, 2012

When journals evolved from exclusive print formats into some variety of electronic hybrid, librarians valued the extra service their formats offered, and we justified paying more for them... Read More »

Elsevier Launches Open Access Journal: GeoResJ

Press Release | Elsevier | June 19, 2013

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of a new open access journal, GeoResJ. Read More »

EPFL Startup Explores New Directions In Open Access

Press Release | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | November 9, 2012

The EPFL startup Frontiers announced today that it is launching 13 new open-access journals in fields including Physics, Bioengineering, and Public Health. These new titles will more than double Frontiers' current repertoire of twelve online journals whose peer-reviewed, scientific articles are immediately accessible, free of charge, to anyone. Read More »