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Our recent discussion on public access made me have a closer look on the options I have for my own papers. The results aren't pretty. Most journals allow posting post-prints on a university website...
The legal disputes following the withdrawal from the market of two drugs for the treatment of pain (the COX-2 inhibitors rofecoxib and valdecoxib) have led to another critical examination of the paper publishing process. I have...
The new NIH Public Access policy started this past Monday. Fellow Nature Networker Graham Steel has summarized this week's reaction of the blogosphere. I would like to highlight some of the discussions we had...
I did a little experiment to figure out whether the full-text versions of my last 15 papers (published between 1997-2008) are available online. The result: * 3 papers available for everybody * 10 papers only available from within...
Anna's recent post about her struggles with Pubmed searches reminded me that there is still a lot that could and should be done to improve the paper (or thesis) writing process. This is my...
Participation in a social network can have it's perks. Thanks to the O'Reilly Group on Facebook (that other social network), I received a review copy of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual. But why...
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