A letter from the American Chemical Society (ACS) to the National Institute of Health on Pubchem has been obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and posted on the SPARC Open Access Forum. The ACS apparently expects the NIH to avoid making chemistry information available, or creating links and relationships between different kinds of materials, …
Solar-powered donkey libraries, an extension of the new Prince Rupert Library, are bringing books, literacy – and electronic gadgets, including computers and internet access – to children throughout Zimbabwe. Perhaps a future partnership opportunity for a CWB chemistry education program?
Environmental Research Letters is a new, open access journal from the Institute of Physics. ERL is the first open-access journal that will cover the whole of environmental science. ERL will serve the entire environmental science community, including both specialist researchers and the wider public, by providing free access to wide-ranging content on topics extending across …
CWB members may be interested in my blogpost, Necessity is the mother of invention: open access, the developing world, and the cost-efficient solution. My point is that scientists in the developing world have far more incentive to seek cost-effective solutions than scientists in the developed world; therefore, we in the developed world can benefit cost-wise …
Many thanks to CWB members who have inquired about how to support the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006. Here is an easy – and fun – way to do this! Simply write a quick note of thanks and congratulations to the Senators for introducing this bill. We all tend to ignore our political …
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This interests me greatly. Video Game Aims To Engage Students I’ve been thinking about this kind of thing for a long time. Imagine a video game, of the type popular today, where saving the world required objects or characters to acquire certain attributes of chemical, historical, literary nature, for example. An atom seeks to acquire …
Senators Cornyn and Lieberman yesterday introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act. If passed, this bill will mean free access to the results of research funded by 11 U.S. federal agencies for everyone – no later than 6 months after publication. The following agencies would be included: Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of …