Web Publishing
Resources
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."
|
|
