Starting this week, papers submitted from NIH-funded research have to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after publication. But what is the current situation in Germany, especially mandatory Open Access? The Berlin Declaration...
Around Christmas, mandatory open access for NIH-funded research was signed into law: The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to...
To celebrate the annual Pi Day, and in the good tradition of geeky music by scientists, I would like to draw your attention to the American Pi Song (lyrics are found here), best listened to at...
Nature News this week reports that Seven US-educated scientists working at the Max Planck Society's institutes are facing criminal charges for impersonating a doctor. This extremely embarrassing story is fortunately no longer possible. The...
Nature Network turns one year old today and it's time to celebrate. We already have a number of interesting – and entertaining – birthday celebrations. I want to contribute with my personal experience at Nature Network....
January is an important month for Macintosh users. MacWorld Expo takes place every year in San Francisco and we usually see a lot of new software and hardware. The MacBook Air is a wonderful new subnotebook...
Receive all new Front Matter blog posts via newsletter and enable commenting.
Join for free, cancel at anytime.
