Door-to-door subscription scams: the dark side of The New York Times
A response by Michael Eisen, open access activist, on an article published in The New York Times (see older post here).
See also this blog post on the debate.
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Dreams of ‘Open’ Everything
Dreams of ‘Open’ EverythingGitHub has big dreams for open source software and more.
Quentin Hardy for the New York Times.
Fraud as one aspect of motivation for to retracting scientific papers
Fraud as one aspect of motivation for to retracting scientific papersCarl Zimmer, The Loom-blog author, writes in the New York Times:
Last year the journal Nature reported an alarming increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers — a tenfold rise in the previous decade, to more than 300 a year across the scientific literature.
This article got corrected post published saying that fraud was not no.1- motivation for retracting an article but misconduct:
The earlier version also misstated the reason cited in the study for three-quarters of the retractions for which researchers could determine the cause. It was misconduct, not fraud. (Fraud or suspected fraud accounted for 41.3 percent of retractions; other forms of misconduct made up the rest.)
The New York Times.
Berkeley to Join the Free Online Learning Partnership EdX
Berkeley to Join the Free Online Learning Partnership EdXThis fall, edX will offer seven MOOCs: artificial intelligence and software engineering from Berkeley, computer science and biostatistics and epidemiology from Harvard, and an introduction to solid state chemistry and an introduction to computer science and programming from M.I.T., along with another round of the circuits course it offered as a prototype.
Anant Agarwal, the president of edX, said that more than 120 universities around the world had expressed interested in working with the partnership.
The New York Times.
See also comment in German on free online learning platform Coursera, negotiated as for-profit company.
Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers
Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to ResearchersIt is “big data,” the vast sets of information gathered by researchers at companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft from patterns of cellphone calls, text messages and Internet clicks by millions of users around the world. Companies often refuse to make such information public, sometimes for competitive reasons and sometimes to protect customers’ privacy. But to many scientists, the practice is an invitation to bad science, secrecy and even potential fraud.
New York Times.
Trust Acts to Open Research Findings to the Public
Trust Acts to Open Research Findings to the PublicAnother New York Times article:
The trend toward open access scientific publishing gained strength last week when the Wellcome Trust, the second-largest nongovernmental funder of scientific research in the world, said it was considering sanctions against scientists who do not make the results of their research freely available to the public.