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FASTR – Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act
This bill will give the American people greater access to the important scientific research results they’ve paid for,” Congressman Doyle said today.”Supporting greater collaboration among researchers in the sciences will accelerate scientific innovation and discovery, while giving the public a greater return on their scientific investment.See also this article on FASTR by Robin Lloyd, responsible for editing and assigning stories and managing the twitter feeds for Scientificamerican.com or this article by John Morgan, deputy news editor of TimesHigherEducation.co.uk Peter Suber, director of the Harvard Open Access Project, collects major information material on FASTR here. Berkman Center provides further detailed information here.
Computational research in the era of open access: Standards and best practices
Ashutosh Jogalekar, a chemist and interested in the history and philosophy of science, proposes on Blogs Scientific American therequirement for stating as many details of the hardware and software as possible (…) to build a central repository of code that contains a variety of different protocols along with their attendant parameters (…) (and) a uniform standard for the analysis and presentation of data.
Introducing: Scicurious Guest Writers!
Introducing: Scicurious Guest Writers!In my many travels as a science blogger, I have run across many young scientists who are in the position I was in when I started my blog: unsure, wanting to get writing experience and try something new, but not having any idea how to begin.
Well, you can start by practicing!
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Moving the Prestige to Open-Access Publishing
Moving the Prestige to Open-Access PublishingScientific American:
We considered submitting to an open access veterinary megajournal, but immediately bumped against the prestige problem.