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Get Wiki With It
Wired News, Aug 28, 2006. "Peer review – the unsung hero and convenient villain of science – gets an online makeover."
Future e-access to the primary literature
An online discussion sponsored by Nature about the future of scientific publishing.
The Scientist
The Newspaper for the Life Sciences Professional
Should government-funded research be free?
"Is it fair for the government to fund scientific research, only to have that research locked up in a US$300 academic journal? Senators Cornyn (R-TX) and Lieberman (D-CT) don't think so, and they've got a plan to change the current system. That plan is the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (PDF), a new bit of legislation making its way through the senate. The bill mandates that most federally funded research be freely published online after publication in an academic journal."
'The Access Principle'
"Paying for information? In print? That’s a model that’s just so early 20th century, according to The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, published last week by MIT Press."
Open Access - Should scientific articles be available online and free to the public? By Amanda Schaffer
December 14, 2004. Slate Magazine discusses the Public Library of Science.
Open-Access Journals Flourish
Wired News, April 11, 2005. "Despite concerns about the ethics of pay-for-play publishing, the number of open-access academic and medical journals is growing at a fast clip."
Breaking paper's stranglehold on the academy
"Will contributing to a wiki someday secure a lifetime Harvard professorship? Stranger things have happened."