Line of the day: When the OMB’s Susan E. Dudley urged the EPA to consider the effects of cutting ozone further on “economic values and on personal comfort and well-being,” the EPA’s Marcus Peacock responded in a March 7 memo: “EPA is not aware of any information that ozone has beneficial effects on economic values …
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced that they will contribute to Wikipedia! CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is pleased to announce that it will contribute to the Wikipedia project. CAS will work with Wikipedia to help provide accurate CAS Registry Numbers® for current substances listed …
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As water gets more and more scarce in CA, the price of salmon is going to go up. (click on the headline for the article). ELMO
The February 18, 2008, issue of C&EN reports that Harvard University’s arts and sciences faculty members now back the open-access movement in scholarly publishing. See also Harvard Library Director Robert Danton’s editorial in the Harvard Crimson.
Returning to the US is always like diving in from outer space. It does not seem real.This years trip to Cameroon was a difficult one. On arrival two children in our school died on Malaria, two easily preventable death. Four year old Benwih (picture) survived because her mother knew how to turn adult malaria pills …
The 791 universities from 46 countries of the European University Association have unanimously endorsed some very strong OA recommendations, which Peter Suber has summarized as follows: * Here’s a digest of the most important of the recommendations. European universities should… 1. launch OAI-compliant institutional repositories (A2) 2. adopt OA mandates for their research output (A3) …
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Some major events in open access this week: The final text of the NIH policy has been posted:http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html and a very interesting FAQ The European Research Council has announced an exemplary Open Access Policy – open access to funded research within 6 months, no loopholes, and an indication that the 6-month maximum will be shortened! …
Excellent program on the impact of a few dollars’ investment on quality of life, environment and economics in Bangladesh. Don’t miss it. See this preview.
Happy New Year and Peace on Earth!I want to take this opportunity and thank our donors. You are too many to all be listed individually but a few I will introduce to you all and explain the purposes that are attached to the donations. Thank you to our 200+ donors during the year 2007 who …
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest medical research funder, has just made public access to NIH-funded research mandatory. Congratulations to the U.S. Congress, Senate, and President for a forward-thinking move that will lead to accelerated health research and better health care for everyone, everywhere! From: Alliance for Taxpayer Accesswww.taxpayeraccess.org For immediate releaseDecember …
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