Jul 18, 2008
Intellectual property, copyright, creative commons, copyleft, open access… These are all terms high on the science and other agenda these days. For example, public-funded scientists the world over are calling for research results to be available free to them and their peers for the public good and for the good of scientific advancement itself. Librarians likewise are also interested in the fullest dissemination …
Apr 2, 2008
How can science benefit from online social media?
My good friend, Jean-Claude Bradley of Drexel University, a chemist and host of the UsefulChem Blogspot blog, who is very keen on the use of information technology and the notion of the open notebook was first to respond to my question when I asked a variety of contacts for their opinions: “For me the answer is clear: …
Jan 29, 2008
As a journalist, I receive a lot of press releases that cite “forthcoming” papers. Depending on the publisher one can usually find the paper in a pre-press state on their website. However, it’s often the case that the DOI does not go live at the same time as the embargo expires on the press release, and so I might legitimately publish an article about the research I cannot use the DOI as the reference and …
Jan 20, 2008
The web domain http://research.google.com is set to become a repository for terabytes of open-source scientific data. It’s like a billion-fold expansion of the virtual GDrive available to GMail users with a neat little hack. According to sources, “The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all.”
Apparently, Palimpsest (project codename) was actually previewed at the Googleplex Science Foo camp in August 2007 but, according to Wired magazine, has …
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