Scientific knowledge is as much about culture as education
One in four Americans doesn’t know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but this says much more about culture than it does about education
Occam's Corner / The Guardian.
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Open Science at Mozfest
"Opening Science with the Open Web" is a panel that Célya Gruson-Daniel gave about Hack-your-PhD (http://hackyourphd.org/) at Mozilla Festival in London.Open access to scientific knowledge has reached its tipping point
This blog post analyses the success of open access strategies in relation to market pressures.But just how much pressure is there for academic research to become open access? One source of pressure causing trends toward open access is boycotting, most notably and recently involving Elsevier, the largest scientific publishing company in the world.