Todays edition of Things I Noticed is brought to you from the HUPO congress in Long Beach, CA. We kick off with a bit of an ode to open access. The new PLoS badge in the sidebar only re-affirms bbgm’s support of open access.
PLoS ONE is almost here
As Pedro announced the other day, PLoS ONE is will soon go live. The journal is a ” high-volume, efficient, and economical system for the publication of peer-reviewed research in all areas of science and medicine” and will utilize web 2.0 technologies extensively. For more you can always get it from the horses mouth. They have well over 200 submissions and an editorial board of 179 scientists. I, for one, can’t wait to see if the journal takes off. It is a unique approach to scientific publishing. While I still don’t quite understand where it fits in with all the other PLoS journals, it is a laudable effort, and as much as possible, I hope to participate.
HHMI hearts open access
In another sign that new open publishing models are gaining ground, HHMI is considering a plan that would make it mandatory (sub required) for its investigators to deposit papers in a public database within six months of publication, otherwise they would not count against the investigators renewal application.
Instant science
An interesting post out at Seed magazine talks about the impact of the blogosphere on the speed of science and any conclusions. With blogs and the aforementioned PLoS ONE around, the question arises. Is this a good thing? I think so.
Plagiarism in Indian science
Nonoscience is carrying a rant against questionable publishing ethics back in India. Sadly, I am not surprised. This is another area, as stated in the post where open source publishing might be a solution (not a panacea)
Technorati Tags: Open Access, PLoS ONE, HHMI, Plagiarism, Ethics
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