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Giving Open Access a Bad Name2 comments

Philip Davis wrote 4 weeks ago: Last Thursday, Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist, Open Access advocate, and the first Academ … more →

Tags: controversial topics, Peer Review, Business models, open access, journals, academic publishing, publications, Business Model, Bentham Science

How Meaningful Are User Ratings? (This Article = 4.5 Stars!)23 comments

David Crotty wrote 1 month ago: Image via Wikipedia The impact factor has long been recognized as a problematic method for interpret … more →

Tags: controversial topics, experimentation, Metrics and Analytics, Research, Social Media, technology, Tools, World of Tomorrow, academic publishing

Which coisogenic mouse is more like Stuart Little?1 comment

dendrite wrote 1 month ago: Image via Wikipedia ** podcast interview accompanies this post ** Lab mice have it pretty good I sup … more →

Tags: Emotion, social sciences, Psychology, Stuart Little, Classical Conditioning, empathy, mouse model

Men who voted for McCain saw testosterone drop

Eyquem wrote 2 months ago: Men who voted for Republican John McCain in last year’s US presidential election saw their tes … more →

Tags: Power & Politics, John McCain, Republican, Political Elections, US Presidential Election, Testosterone, Levels, study, Barack Obama

PLoS Releases Article-level Metrics6 comments

Philip Davis wrote 3 months ago: Image by dullhunk via Flickr Last week, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) announced the release o … more →

Tags: Authority, Metrics and Analytics, Peer Review, Social Media, Article downloads, Impact factor, Metrics, PLoS ONE, Usage

Challenging Assumptions on Open Access Cost Savings2 comments

Philip Davis wrote 5 months ago: Image by Random Tony via Flickr European countries could save millions of Euros if they switched to … more →

Tags: Metrics and Analytics, Research, Business models, open access, journals, BioMed Central, John Houghton

The Tip of an Iceberg?6 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 6 months ago: Image by Gideon Burton via Flickr Today’s post by Phil Davis outlines a small experiment to se … more →

Tags: Authority, Authors, controversial topics, Peer Review, Reading, Research, social role, academic publishing, Author

The SLENZ Update – No 83, May 16, 20091 comment

johnwaugh wrote 7 months ago: COULD YOU BECOME YOUR AVATAR? So you want an ‘out-of-body’ experience in Second Life … more →

Tags: Education, Second-Life, virtual worlds, Kurzweil, Singularity, avatar presence, Anderson, social presence, Out of Body

JoVE Leaves Open Access Behind3 comments

Philip Davis wrote 8 months ago: Image by Stecky via Flickr The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) has implemented a subscripti … more →

Tags: controversial topics, experimentation, Business models, open access, journals, PLoS ONE, JoVE, Journal of Visualized Experiments

A "Map of Science" from Los Alamos

davidkirkpatrick wrote 8 months ago: Here’s the release from earlier this month — you’ll have to hit the link for the m … more →

Tags: media, Science, technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, map of science, PLoS ONE

The brain exists between order and chaos

davidkirkpatrick wrote 9 months ago: This study explains a lot … The release: The human brain is on the edge of chaos Cambridge-bas … more →

Tags: Science, brain, chaos, PLoS Computational Biology, International Society for Computational Biology

Fetal Stem-Cell Treatment Caused Tumors

Aphiemi wrote 10 months ago: FOX News via the AP is reporting that a family that had their son undergo a highly-experimental feta … more →

Tags: News, Politics, Religion, obama, Barack Obama, Fox News, associated press, AP, President Obama

Microblogging in PLoS

Pawel Szczesny wrote 10 months ago: I don’t usually repost news, as my FriendFeed stream (also available from the sidebar of this … more →

Tags: Community, bioinformatics, friendfeed, microblogging, PLoS Computational Biology

What's Your Health Score?1 comment

hookupwithhealth wrote 11 months ago: 2008 Reseach published in the journal of the Public Library of Science shows that people who exercis … more →

Tags: Healthy Eating, health, Raw Food, organic, Health & Food, Hook Up With Health

Sneaky Cats

Johannes wrote 1 year ago: Evolutionary researchers at Duke University recently published a study where they investigate the di … more →

Tags: Biology, Evolution, Creationism and ID, animal gait, Anita Pai, cat, cat gait, Cats, Daniel Schmitt, dog

Open Access Day2 comments

davelove wrote 1 year ago: I spent most of Open Access Day in the lab grinding out bench work and preparing our new (to us) CO2 … more →

Tags: Science, open access, Creative Commons, Peer Review, Publishing

News, Scholarly Communications: Open Access Day3 comments

creaky wrote 1 year ago: Open Access Day Today, October 14 2008 Photo credit: http://openaccessday.org/program/ The first int … more →

Tags: News & Medical News, Libraries or Librarians, Educational sites, Library 2.0, Scholarly Publishing & Open Access, Scholarly Publications, Other Stuff, open access publishing, Scholarly Communications

a perspective transformation2 comments

learningdocument wrote 1 year ago: From an essay entitled “The Critics Need a Reboot. The Internet hasn’t led us into a new … more →

Tags: Education, The Internet, Social Media, The Future, Wikipedia, reflexive anti-intellectualism, Digital Technology, collective brainpower, Wikis

Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists

kalengirl wrote 1 year ago: Sarah Boseley, health editor The Guardian, Tuesday February 26, 2008 Prozac, the bestselling antidep … more →

Tags: Article, health, depresion, Tip, new, antidepressant, prozac, Effexor, Seroxat


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