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Pods CMS - http://pods.uproot.us/
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Pods is a CMS framework for WordPress. It's a plugin that sits on top of WordPress, allowing you to add and display your own content types. These content types, or "pods", are totally separate from Posts, Pages, or Custom Fields. The Pods plugin uses its own database structure for maximum efficiency, and for relationships among items.
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Using Wordpress To Share Research - http://www.slideshare.net/clioweb...
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Casual Fridays: What makes a good writer? - http://scienceblogs.com/cogniti...
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Daniel Mietchen to Daniel's feed, Science 2.0, Science in the long run, Research Funding 2.0, Young scientists, The Life Scientists
Fwd: Research grants: Let’s end this shared madness by Wellcome Trust director Mark Walport, Times Higher Education - http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story... (via http://friendfeed.com/dullhun...)
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"So what are we proposing? We will phase out project and programme grants and instead, extend the model of fellowship support to researchers who are salaried by their university or research institute. "
- Daniel Mietchen
"We look to the scientific community to bring us their best ideas." - looks like an invite for another round of Fantasy Science Funding (this time from the perspective of the Wellcome Trust).
- Daniel Mietchen
Having been a Wellcome Trust International Travelling Fellow I've appreciated Wellcome's visionary approach to funding, and applaud their initiative here. This isn't a fantasy, this is Wellcome, and it will happen...
- Richard Badge
I agree, I don't think this is fantasy. They will do what they say. Few, the light is finally dawning.
- Jo Badge
For background on Fantasy Science Funding, see http://ways.org/en... . This piece shall also serve as a basis for an upcoming post on "What would research funding look like if it were invented today?" ( http://ff.im/9SvED ) which is intended to contain a general analysis of the funding situation, combined with some specific examples....
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- Daniel Mietchen
this looks bit but I don't really understand what it means in practice. You apply for a fellowship but does that not mean that you still are asking for the resources for a defined programme of work? If slightly less tightly defined? Will be interested to see what this means in detailed terms.
- Cameron Neylon
Critique: An inward-looking scheme which must eventually collapse due to failure to recruit new talent (and lack of a proper career structure will speed that up). Bye bye UK science.
- AJCann
I would suggest to them to do a significant part of the review process in the open, and to abandon it for some control group that meets basic eligibility criteria.
- Daniel Mietchen
@ajcann cynic ;-) what do you propose instead then? At least they are trying to acknowledge that science is done by good people with good ideas, giving them the freedom to follow those ideas to their logical conclusions and not to a pre-determined end point that you can only guess at.
- Jo Badge
But this strategy cannot be successful in the long term as it is anti-innovative and will inevitably degenerate into an old boys club.
- AJCann
@ AJCann: It has already gone much of that way, and I interpret Walport's piece as a sign of consciousness of the matter and an invitation for constructive criticism, albeit he seems to be very concerned about the opinions of other funders.
- Daniel Mietchen
The Wellcome trust is certainly one of the organizations that are most upfront (and sometimes brutal) in saying what they want and being forceful in maximizing their return on investment. I would certainly give them the benefit of the doubt to some extent on this one. But there is also something of a perception that it is something of a closed club. Partly this is down to a conscious...
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- Cameron Neylon
Yes, but not a viable strategy for UK science overall. It works for Wellcome as long as they can cannibalize the fresh talent funded by someone else. It won't work over the longer term is all (or most) agencies go down this route.
- AJCann
Well at least junior researchers can apply for an EPSRC grant.
- AJCann
Alan, let me ask the tough question - _is_ there a viable strategy for UK science overall? As in a strategy that views UK science in isolation? Having just got back from China I've got to say it certainly feels like we're toast unless we build our personnel and physical infrastructure in a bigger framework.
- Cameron Neylon
Probably not at the present/proposed levels of funding and considering what is being asked. Developing economies regard fundamental research as a route to prosperity. Decaying economies seems to regard science funding as a drain. It would be possible to fund selected areas, e.g. sustainable technologies, healthcare, and focus limited funding, but in this proposal inadequate funding is...
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- AJCann
It's interesting how explicit that is in the China case. The spending of money to speed development as well as to bring people back to support this. Building a new campus expected to house 20,000 scientists in a five year timeframe just doesn't seem to bother them. At the same time the heirachical and top down nature of the society and organization of their science doesn't seem to support radical developments. Will be very interesting to watch though.
- Cameron Neylon
Planning for the sun: urban forms as a Mesopotamian response to the sun - http://www.informaworld.com/smpp...
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Adventures in nonsense: Simon Perry's ongoing battle with all forms of nonsense. - http://adventuresinnonsense.blogspot.com/2009...
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BBC - Earth News - Logging caused Nazca collapse - http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth...
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"The ancient Nazca people of Peru are famous for the lines they drew in the desert depicting strange animal forms. A further mystery is what happened to this once great civilisation, which suddenly vanished 1500 years ago. Now a team of archaeologists have found the demise of the Nazca society was linked in part to the fate of a tree. Analysing plant remains they reveal how the destruction of forests containing the huarango tree crossed a tipping point, causing ecological collapse. The team have published their findings in the journal of Latin American Antiquity."
- Eivind
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"The huarango tree (Prosopis pallida) is a unique tree with many qualities and played a vital role in the habitat, protecting the fragile desert ecosystem, the scientists say. "It is the ecological keystone species in the desert zone enhancing soil fertility and moisture and underpinning the floodplain with one of the deepest root systems of any tree known," Dr Beresford-Jones says. "
- Eivind
FriendFeed Hide Tutorial - http://www.vimeo.com/1130659
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Posting this here as people keep asking me for it!
- AJCann
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How I learned to stop worrying and love FriendFeed - http://scienceoftheinvisible.b...
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I've neglected FriendFeed for a while now, for the same reasons you list in your post. I think the duplication of Twitter feeds was the main culprit. I'm going to remove my Twitter feed from here now and see if I can make FF work for me again.
- Joss Winn
Overlap = overload, definitely a bad thing in the case of social networks.
- AJCann
I have hidden all Twitter in FF for a long time (unless replied to) I removed my own Twitter feed from percolating into FF to stop them appearing in my FB news feed each time I tweeted.. I don't think FF is the place to aggregate Twitter talk I have to say..
- Daniel Swan
I agree, but I only figured this out recently, and most of the people I used to follow here haven't figured it out yet. The very ease with which you can add RSS feeds to FF is a problem in that regard, leading to repetition across networks.
- AJCann
nice!
- Dan Freeman
I'm very interested in how you will use FF in education - it went well for me in my organic chem class - too early to tell if students will take to it this term in cheminfo retrieval
- Jean-Claude Bradley
I hide all Tweets that are not commented upon or liked, maybe I should do as I would have others do, and stop importing Twitter here myself?
- Simon Cockell
Interested to hear how you used Friendfeed with students JC - did you blog about this?
- AJCann
AJ - yes blogged about using FF and SL in class here http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.com/ and under the Networking section of this paper http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/SLchemP... The actual assignment is here http://chem241.wikispaces.com/extracr...
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Thanks.
- AJCann
Great strategy, Thanks for sharing it..
- Eric Logan
I'm getting requests for a video version - I'll have to see what i can do :-)
- AJCann
like to import everything but the kitchen sink to friendfeed, as long as there are no duplicates
- Mike Chelen
Beginning to realise that there is a slight difference in the medium too. My perception of the FF post/ aggregator means when faced with the blank posting box I am far more likely to look for some 'web object' I want to share rather than give the sort of status update I would on Twitter. The social glue with FF seems to be founded in conversation and comments around items and objects....
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- Jo Badge
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Jo, that is exactly what I think is the important difference! Great to see someone coming to the same conclusion. Maybe I'm not completely mad.
- Cameron Neylon
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So what you're saying is, there are two cultures? :-) That's exactly why I need two networks. Have we just started writing a manuscript in this thread?
- AJCann
From the non-Twitter side, I find tweets by themselves, appearing w/o context in my chat client from people I follow just plain annoying and near-useless. But if tweets are in relation to an item or object as Jo said, that's different.
- 'Mummi' Thorisson
..unless I'm being silly and there is a way in FF to e.g. filter out say Deepak's tweets, or only receive his blog posts?
- 'Mummi' Thorisson
I agree, but much less so since I learned how to use the selective hide functions.
- AJCann
Mummi, yes there is - http://www.vimeo.com/1130659
- AJCann
Thanx Alan! excellent UI design, this - the FF developers are a bunch of geniuses/genii. Honestly.
- 'Mummi' Thorisson
OK, paper started ;-)
- Jo Badge
Received 1st 2 articles from local skeptic @simon_perry ... sent them to lawyers! Can't wait for next column on libel laws
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3 copies of the dissertation printed, bound and submitted
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Nice one Mo and good luck !!!
- Graham Steel
Thanks!
- Mo
Good luck!
- Mr. Gunn
wow That was quick! Nice!
- Björn Brembs
Congratulations! Nice!
- Kubke
76% of Repubs either deny plate tectonics or are not sure about it: http://www.dailykos.com/statepo...
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a look at the poll: http://bit.ly/2hwm6
- Bora Zivkovic
And some wonder why we have so many problems in this country... Science. It works, bitches. http://xkcd.com/54/
- LogEx
Similar to the way I feel when walking past a TV showing Fox News, I imagine.
- Mr. Gunn
Rook Using stones to raise water level to reach a floating worm - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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There are a few free iphone apps re space today.
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what app is that you're using to see these sales?
- Alan Le
AppSniper. It has sale, new, hot, snipe, and a config "tabs". I used config to remove genres I don't really care about and the snipe page to set up ones I want to watch for price changes and/updates. It's saved me a bunch of money actually.
- metalerik
thanks, appsniper seems really useful!
- Alan Le
Now on iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer... (at ~7min) RT @Duddy: @Stephen_Curry Mitchell and Webb homeopathy sketch hilarious. 'His chakra's fading'
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The Ethics of The Quote - http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
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a polemic
- Bora Zivkovic
I think there's room for individual journalist reputation in all this. When Andrew Albanese of Library Journal asked me for an interview, I said yes immediately, because I've read his stuff for years and it's *great*. True to form, he represented what I said fairly and accurately, though I'd have personally preferred him to use my email rather than my phone interview.
- D0r0th34
Yes, which is why I keep giving interviews. I think I should append the post with several examples of people who interviewed me and ended up producing a good article that correctly conveyed what I meant.
- Bora Zivkovic
I posted an addendum with some examples. I hope you all go and comment on the post itself (I know you all love FF) as the blog has much bigger audience and I feel there will be some angry journalists there soon....
- Bora Zivkovic
Thanks for the comment, Bill. You are obviously a scientist ;-) I responded there....
- Bora Zivkovic
Ha! Got the first hit-and-run dumbass comment ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
On the internet there is no longer any excuse not to post the raw material along with finished piece. If journalists did that I guess it would help a lot?
- Anders Norgaard
Ha! Larry liked it: http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2009... Is that good or bad? ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
It's good. Larry's a cranky bastard but he's a smart cranky bastard. :-) (But why does he insist on calling you "Boris"?)
- Bill Hooker
I know. Not fun being on the receiving end of his blogging, great when he agrees.
- Bora Zivkovic
As for Boris, I don't mind. I think it is a tic among some English-speaking folks to add the S at the end of foreign male names ending with A, to make them masculine for English-speakers' ears. Thus, an Italian named Andrea become Andreas, a Nikola becomes Nicholas, and Bora becomes Boris.
- Bora Zivkovic
Twitterers Subvert Daily Mail’s Racist Poll - http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2009...
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RT @bengoldacre: Privacy for mis-conducting judges http://u.tv/News..., but not for anonymous police bloggers http://news.bbc.co.uk/2.... UKaput?
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I don’t know what to say - http://network.nature.com/people...
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Read this, then weep...
- Cameron Neylon
Such a shame. I imagine this went right to the top and the order came down from on high. Nature is owned by Macmillan which is itself owned by Holzbrinck. It would have been nice to see them make a stand - but I don't blame them really (it takes a special kind of executive to go against legal advice) - and I think it cool that they handled it nicely and by telephone. "dubious assertions" lol - it was a blog post. It would be nice to find out who you mentioned in the post was the one who threatened to sue.
- Andrew Lang
Blimey, gov.
- Graham Steel
There's already a discussion of it here: http://ff.im/3o83q I always hated the idea of blog censorship. Especially if they're well thought out and written. Controversy spurs great discussions. Very poor decision on NN's part
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Some opinion being expressed here in apparent lack of awareness of internet law.
- Maxine
Internet law? You'd be the first to explain to us why this occurred, Maxine. I have a feeling it has more to do with pissing off people with money than it does with any law in any country. Unless Nature is run out of Iran or North Korea? Unfortunately, Nature owns the site and can do whatever it wants as far as censorship is concerned, but there was absolutely nothing in his post that was against the law.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Brian what qualifications do you have in English law?
- Bob O'Hara
Am I privileged in that I can still read the supposedly removed post? Or is there only a word or two that could be construed as libelous, that has been subtly changed?
- Heather
What is "internet law"?
- Bill Hooker
None, but if that post is considered libelous under British law, it's time to change a few things. Also, I forgot that NPG was headed up in Britain. So apologies on that :(
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
@Bill- legislation written in 133t.
- Noah Gray
Look at the comments on the Nature News article - you can always tell a crazy. http://www.nature.com/news... More seriously, I understand that a great deal of deliberation and consideration were undertaken, but there has to be a better way to handle this. Not just this specific incident, but all future incidents such as this. This really makes the case...
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- Mr. Gunn
@Noah -- unlike standard legalese, I can read 133t. :-)
- Bill Hooker
The question of libel isn't "Is it published in England?", it's "Can it be READ in England?" Hence a Ukrainian businessman can sue a Ukrainian website hosted in the Ukraine for an article written in Ukrainian - *in England*. The reason? One or two Ukrainian readers in England could access it. http://us.ft.com/ftgatew... This is a problem if you have assets accessible from England.
- Alun Salt
+1 Mr. Gunn. - lol Noah+Bill!
- Björn Brembs
As Alun says. His point, and some others, are made in our NN discusssion here: http://network.nature.com/groups... .
- Maxine
So are you suggesting we ban Britain from the internet :P
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Brilliant idea, Brian! If someone in the UK wants to use the web, they have to have a second home abroad. (ETA: to be clear, this isn't sarcasm - I genuinely like it!)
- Bob O'Hara
What if they just got their internet through an off shore proxy service? :P
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Why are Nature Network and ScienceBlogs different in this respect from Blogger and Wordpress?
- Karen James
The only difference that I can see is that NN and SB 'approve' those who have blogs on their sites. So, they may have a liability when it comes to libel suits that Blogger and Wordpress (which have no such selection process) do not have. But be warned: I am not a lawyer.
- Stephen Curry
New blog post: Publishing with Google Earth and Google Map products: Note: this is a post that ori.. http://ausarch.com/2009...
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Nature Network rolls over and exposes its belly - http://rg-d.com/BioLOG...
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Not really sure why that would have been taken down. Sound reasoning, you didn't slander anyone, or swear like a sailor. Makes very little sense as to why it'd be taken down. It's not like they can be held accountable for anything that's said on their site... If anything, your post would have spurred a great discussion. NN is a little too smug for my tastes, and it's things like this that solidify my decision to stear clear from them.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Poor decision on NN's part, imo.
- Bill Hooker
Sharpening my pitchfork while reading the article.
- Mr. Gunn
Now that I have read the article and my pitchfork is sharp, where do I join up with the angry mob?
- Mr. Gunn
"..on advice of its cowardly lawyers."? What advice? "We advise you to take this post down because ..."?
- Andrew Lang
And here is another reason why I don't want to blog as part of a network ... be that Nature Network or ScienceBlogs.
- Lars Juhl Jensen
looks fairly harmless to me but I Am Not A Lawyer (interesting post too, thanks Richard and Stephen for saving it)
- Duncan Hull
I thought it a good post - I wanted to make some comments about the stuff on peer review panels which I thought deserved some digging into with respect to trust and openness
- Cameron Neylon
I'd like to see what the lawyers' reasoning was, but if we assume their advice was correct, then NN did the right thing (commercially, at least: I don't see that it's their role to throw themselves under a bus on moral grounds). The problem is the crappy English libel laws.
- Bob O'Hara
Time for a science bloggers defence/insurance fund?
- Cameron Neylon
Does anyone know if this has happened previously on scienceblogs.com?
- Katherine Haxton
No it hasn't (I have spies!). There have been legal threats, and apparently PZed was sued but the judge threw the case out.
- Bob O'Hara
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the best place for info on free speech online, http://www.eff.org/issues... and http://www.eff.org/issues... [EDIT: guess EFF is of no use here, as summed up by Edzard Ernst: “Internationally it's agreed that UK libel laws are ridiculous”]
- The Neurocritic
Maxine thinks we don't understand internet law. http://ff.im/3oSIa We're so ignorant.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
I believe she meant that you seemed to be jumping to conclusions about the reach of the long arm of English libel law as it applies to the Internet. Have a look at the forum discussion she started here and the links within provided toward the end of the second page of comments: http://network.nature.com/groups...
- Heather
Cameron, you're onto something. If it's so easy to silence a critic, this will have a huge effect on all online commentary in the UK. While I do think companies that allow user contributed material have the moral responsibility to stand behind their users, legally if need be, I also understand that many won't. Geriatric traditional media holding companies view all of the web as some...
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- Mr. Gunn
Brian, I think many people don't understand the relation between the law and the internet, including many scientists and lawyers. It's a fast-evolving situation. Have a look at the WSJ and other articles linked to in our Nature Network discussion "using the law to stifle scientific debate" for plenty of examples of what can happen.
- Maxine
Wish I could "like" your response Mr Gunn. That's exactly what I was thinking. If you have to deal with this kind of garbage in the UK, what's the point in even running a forum there? @Maxine, I've been at this forum/internet thing for quite a while now and was using US laws as my reference. I forgot NPG was UK based, and that completely changes the game.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Can NN officially get re-registered in the USA?
- Bora Zivkovic
@Bora, I think it all depends where the parent company is based. At least that's what it seems based on the links Maxine has provided.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Brian, it's nothing to do with where the parent company is based. It's all to do whether the content can be read in the UK.
- F1000
Then why aren't Britains suing American forum owners?
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Why should they?
- F1000
Because I'm sure there's a gigantic amount of slander and libel (as defined by the British laws) going on overseas. That's the whole reason this post was removed, right? An American judge would laugh at this if it ever went to court.
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
No, why don't you pay attention? The post was removed because the NPG lawyers said that NPG would have been liable had someone brought a libel action. Just because someone is defamatory does not mean they're automatically going to get sued. Companies do have to protect themselves because they have lots of money and are easy targets.
- Richard P Grant
You can say what you like Brian because (a) you have no money and (b) no one listens to what you say.
- Richard P Grant
So why doesn't Fark.com get sued every day? And I'm going to ignore your obvious troll there Richard :P
- Brian Krueger - LabSpaces
Because people are generally big enough to take shit from other people, without recourse to law. Bringing a libel action isn't a necessity, you know -- no one is forcing you to bring an action. Libel is a civil action, not a criminal one (in the UK anyway -- Aus/Canadia are I think different).
- Richard P Grant
I'd like to know if NPG really feels no duty to stand behind people who blog/comment in its' forums. They can't police everything that's said, even if they're supposed to.
- Mr. Gunn
Mr Gunn, your questions can be answered to the extent that it is possible by reading the two ongoing discussions at NN, one at Stephen Curry's blog post about the takedown, and one about the legal issues in the Nature Opinion forum. There are also links to articles there that make some aspects of the situation clearer than perhaps you are aware, based on the phrasing of your comment above.
- Maxine
RT @KristenELong using period trick to make my paper longer. If font is size 12, do a ctrl+F, replace all periods in paper with size 14.
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Any professor that mandates a paper's length needs a written reprimand.
- coldbrew
I tend to agree with you coldbrew. You'd be amazed, though, at the number of students who really fuss when a prof doesn't assign x number of pages. (Then, too, there are sometimes departmental requirements.)
- Kathy Fitch
Teachers do know about all of those tricks, anyway.
- Kathy Fitch
you can also play around with the margins, page numbering, and headings too
- Mr. Gunn
You could do that, but teachers know every possible trick. Better just to write as well as you can, no matter how long or short it turns out to be. Clear and absorbing writing will always carry the day, and there's no substitute for that.
- Kathy Fitch
I just graded papers yesterday and never even counted the pages. I told them they should be 5-ish pages long, with the stress on "ish".
- Bora Zivkovic
Bora, I always used the "ish" approach, as well. "In the neighborhood of" was also useful for the students who just insisted on a number. If you notice how long it is or isn't, then something entirely else is wrong, generally.
- Kathy Fitch
I'm with you on that, Kathy. The only reason to use tricks is if the teacher has imposed a strict page limit and you need to work around it for an already well-written paper.
- Mr. Gunn
Masters of disaster - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com - http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
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"So Bobby Jindal makes fun of “volcano monitoring”, and soon afterwards Mt. Redoubt erupts. Susan Collins makes sure that funds for pandemic protection are stripped from the stimulus bill, and the swine quickly attack. What else did the right oppose recently? I just want enough information to take cover."
- Steven Perez
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ouch!
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Top Ten Tips for Writing a Tip-Top Press Release http://everyone.plos.org/2009... #PLoS
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Yes, it is from PLoS, but it is applicable to everyone, really.
- Bora Zivkovic
Scholarly (scientific) journals vs total serials: % price increase 1990-2009 - http://www.sennoma.net/main...
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"It's difficult to look at that graph and believe that scholarly publishers are playing fair..."
- Bill Hooker
It would also be interesting to compare the price increase of serials with the journal production costs 1990-2009. These numbers are difficult to impossible to obtain, but my guess would be that an increase in production costs is not the reason for the 238-537% increase in serials prices.
- Martin Fenner
I agree, Martin, especially when one remembers that online publishing really came of age in the same time period. There's no evidence that I can see in any of those constantly-climbing curves that the potential savings of online publishing were realized -- or, if realized, were passed on to the consumer.
- Bill Hooker
And yes, production costs are almost impossible to get. Publishers either exaggerate (e.g. Nature, $40K/ms -- it's OK Maxine, that was a parliamentary inquiry, everyone lies to the gummint) or just clam up. This is something I find puzzling about nonprofit OA publishers like PLoS -- why so little disclosure? They could do a lot of good by making available real information on a crucial question: what does it cost to publish a peer-reviewed journal?
- Bill Hooker
Egon raises interesting questions in a comment on the OP.
- Bill Hooker
Decreasing numbers of subscriptions per journal are probably one important explanation for this steep rise in subscription costs. Which is a dangerous route to take.
- Martin Fenner
even amongst publishers (on LIBLICENSE) there are arguments about costs/paper... one huge expense the publishers have had is to digitize the entire backfile - some back as far as the 1600s but many back to late 1800s
- Christina Pikas
These have been some really informative posts you've been churning out these past few days! Thanks! I'll put all those graphs into my slides and make sure to mention you.
- Björn Brembs
No need to mention me (though I won't complain if you do) -- it's all CCZero licensed. I'm just pleased if someone finds any of it useful.
- Bill Hooker
Great work Bill
- Garret McMahon
Thanks- passed it onto my library management for ammunition. They are struggling with a fixed budget in $AU. Our subs are of course mostly in $US so the rising subscription costs combined with a $AU fall is obviously killing off our subs.
- suelibrarian
Are you considering to publish these results in peer reviewed journals?
- Abhishek Tiwari
Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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