Open source chemistry folks, especially those going to ACS in San Francisco – might want to check out The Blue Obelisk Movement – sounds like this group has much in common with CWB! Thanks to Peter Murray-Rust, via Peter Suber on Open Access News, for the tip.
The American Chemical Society has just announced its Open Access Option. Authors can make their work immediately openly accessible for a fee from $1,000 to $3,000 per article, depending on whether they are ACS members and their institutional libraries are subscribers. Kudos to ACS, and many thanks to Peter Suber on Open Access News for …
Here is an interesting article regarding the “tipping point” before the point of no return for our climate. Your thoughts? ELMO
Cambridge’s Peter Murray-Rust, a chemist and leader of the open data movement, talks about Openness and Ethics in Science. Thanks to Peter Suber on Open Access News.
Lets see what happens… ELMO
A beautiful vision from Richard Cave on PLoS Blog. Thanks to Open Access News. One Laptop per Child is closer to reality with the Children’s Machine (CM1). One of the key features is that it “creates its own mesh network out of the box. Each machine is a full-time wireless router. Children—as well as their …
CWB open source chemistry folks will like Chemical Blogspace. Description:Chemical blogspace collates posts from chemistry blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data. For example, you can see which papers are currently being discussed by organic chemists, or which web pages are being linked to by chemoinformaticians. It’s sort of like a …
From Open Access News: PLoS One is Making a Splash. PLoS ONE has had more submissions (70) in its first three weeks than any other PLoS journal in the same period. PS: Congrats to PLoS and congrats to authors for seeing the value here and supporting something new. Heather’s Comment: PLoS, the Public Library of …
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BioMedCentral (BMC), the world’s largest open access publisher – today launched Chemistry Central, a new open access website currently featuring chemistry article from BMC journals, with plans to offer new open access chemistry journals, beginning with Chemistry Central Journal. For CWB members from the research community, this is a wonderful opportunity to publish open access …
Chemists Without Borders Conference Call, 8-17-2006 1. Agenda1.1 Introductions1.2 Open Access1.3 Legal1.4 Funding1.5 Education1.6 Conference Presentations1.7 Arsenic Project1.8 Communications1.9 Vaccines & Medicines1.10 Personnel & Roles1.11 Unfinished Business1.12 Feedback2. Introductions2.1 Steve Chambreau2.2 William Doria2.3 Bego Gerber2.4 Rolande Hodel – in absentiaSteve, Bego, amazing confference… Jonson&Jonson just blew my mind – in a positive way – I’ll …
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