Month: March 2007

Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the United States

The Alliance for Taxpayer Access has launched a Petition for Publicly Funded Research in the United States. Please sign! For more information, please join us for a special teleconference meeting on Thursday, April 5, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time / noon Eastern Time, when Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing Academic Resources Coalition, will …

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Open Access, Open Source Speaker Series: Heather Joseph, Peter Suber, Jean-Claude Bradley

Please join Chemists Without Borders for a special series of teleconference meetings on Open Access and Open Source. For more background, please see the link from the Chemists Without Borders website to our Open Chemistry Position Statement. Thursday, April 5 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time / Noon Eastern TimeHeather Joseph: Federal Research Public Access Act Heather …

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Coal Power Plants

From an MSNBC article on coal fired power plants: Companies say the new coal plants are better than old ones, though both use the same approach: pulverizing coal, then burning it in huge boilers to power giant turbines. The new $1.1 billion MidAmerican facility will be one of the nation’s biggest, with 790 megawatts of …

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