This week’s Nature features a comparison of the two presidential
candidates and their views on scientific topics such as climate change,
stem cell research, space exploration and others. BBC News offers
a summary. (Has Nature done something like this before? I
can’t recall, and maybe it is the experience of the Bush administration
that prompted these questions. )
Recently the U.S. House Appropriations committee made recommendations
that research papers funded by NIH should be deposited in PubMedCentral
and made open access. Peter Suber has put together a FAQ on the
recommendations. Evidently, the NIH has heard volumes from
various publishers and associations disparaging the idea.
(Sources: Open Access News, Current Cites)
This article considers blogs from the viewpoint of preserving digital
ephemera. Are they worth preserving and what practices are in
place? (Source: Current Cites)
