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Science Denialists Make Fake Journal, Get Shut Down.
Posted by Greg Laden on January 18, 2014 
Copernicus Publications is an Open Access enterprise that provided the ability for an academic entity of some sort or another to create a new Open Access journal. In March 2013 the journal “Pattern Recognition in Physics” was started up and added to the Copernicus lineup. The journal apparently put out a few items, and then,…
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research embraces open access
Posted by Greg Laden on September 12, 2012 Some interesting news from the Open Access front: The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) today announced the membership agreement with BioMed Central and SpringerOpen. Publication costs for research articles published by researchers funded by NWO for articles published no later than 2008, who chose to publish via BioMed Central will now automatically be covered…
PLoS Currents is expanding
Posted by Greg Laden on September 2, 2010 At this very moment, PLoS Currents is expanding. Here is the information from PLoS:
Please help a guy out
Posted by Greg Laden on July 24, 2010 I’ve mentioned before that there is a web page set up by Abel Pharmboy at Terra Sigillata to raise some money for Bora Zivkovic, recently of Scienceblogs.com but now detached from that network. Bora is the community organizer for PLoS, and is a scientist interested in biological clocks, which is why his blog was named…
Saving the Saba Bank with Open Access Publishing
Posted by Greg Laden on May 20, 2010 The Saba Bank is a major coral reef in the Caribbean which sports a high level of biodiversity but also attracts oil tankers, and is thus an important natural area under threat. The tankers anchor here to avoid paying fees in various ports, but the anchors themselves drag along the reef and cause havoc. There…
Amazon Dot Com IS a different kind of thing.
Posted by Greg Laden on January 31, 2010 I told you so, but most of you would not listen. Amazon has tossed an entire publishing company off its site (hat tip: H.G.) because that company would not comply with Amazon’s universally imposed Kindle edition pricing strategy. That places Amazon at the decision making table where the publishers and the market (the buyers of…
#scio10 Science Online 2010 recollections and reflections on the sessions I attended
Posted by Greg Laden on January 18, 2010 Last weekend I attended Science Online 2010, which is a conference of science communicators with a heavy mix of bloggers, many journalists and others from the print industry, an increasingly large number of book authors, and OpenX (X=access, notebook, science, or whatever) advocates and practitioners.
Out of place oak is 13 thousand years old
Posted by Greg Laden on January 2, 2010 One of the world’s oldest plants turns out to be a 13,000 year-old scrub oak (Quercus palmeri, or Palmer’s Oak) in Southern California. Apparently this tree has survived for so long, despite the fact that it was born in the ice age and there have been numerous climate changes since then, by cloning itself, hiding…
Raptors and their Talons
Posted by Greg Laden on December 2, 2009 Raptors and their Talons are the subjects of a blog post on the DC Birding Blog called “How Raptor Talons Fit Their Prey” This post, which is quite excellent and that I highly recommend, on the November Plos Blog Post of the Month Award. We hope blog post author John Beetham will enjoy his trip…
PLoS rolls out article level metrics
Posted by Greg Laden on September 17, 2009 And it’s on You Tube!