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Open Access to Scientific Literature
From HubLog via Open Access News: Physiological Genomics is adopting the Prosser Method of offering open access: Pay to have your article published, leaving all text, figures, and supplementary material open access, or let the article be published under a standard subscription(including page charges too, I’d guess). It’s clearly the way to go for someone who believes “free and unfettered exchange of information” is crucial to the scientific process.
Most people at most research institutions can get a hold of an article if they want it, because the institution will have a subscription. My undergraduate institution didn’t have online access to anything but pubmed, though, so you had to schlep down to the library and copy it, if you wanted the full article. It was like the internet didn’t exist to these people, ironically called the Information Science group. Then there was the time they canceled their print subscriptions to Science, Nature, and PNAS because they were too expensive….
In the near future, when trackback enables a ubiquitous commentary system, we’ll wonder why it took so long.
Chris Rocks!
I wasn’t sure for a while, but now I know there is another Molecular Biology and Food blogger in the world. His site is so much slicker and cleaner than mine, too.
[EDIT 10-2007] It was, while it was up.
We have no assay for a soul.
“We have no assay for a soul.” Nicely put, but Irving Weissman’s still wrong about adult stem cells.
The things I do for my health
As a (vain) young man, I try to identify the environmental factors that result in people growing older faster than others, in order to prevent that occurring to me. Particularly, I don’t ever want to become one of those guys who has to grunt and strain just to take a good piss. Thanks to this article in New Scientist, my worries are now relieved.
High-end animated illustrations of animations of nanobots attacking Staphylococcus aureus and platelet aggregation
Hybrid Medical Technologies makes high-end animated illustrations of animations of things such as nanobots attacking Staphylococcus aureus bacteria and platelet aggregation. I wonder if they’d let me use some of their sample images in my presentations. They’re beautiful.
Thanks to The Eyes Have It!
Online, real-time, science commentary
Derek Lowe is dipping into the debate on online science commentary at his site at Corante, In The Pipeline. From the perspective of a graduate student, it’s a fantastic idea. Instead of waiting for the few scientific meeting and conventions a year to interact with peers and senior researchers in our field, we could potentially receive and respond to comments daily. John Vu is criticizing Eagleman & Holcombe for failing to make any mention of blogging whatsoever, despite the obvious examples, such as Hubmed. I’ve written before about the neat feature of RSS feeds of literature queries.