...[A] new paper on autism rates in California reports now that mercury exposure is falling, but autism rates are not. Kristina deals with the paper, so I'll just say this:
I LOVE IT WHEN SCIENTIFIC PAPERS ARE OPEN ACCESS!!!!
It is a little crusade of mine to have papers be open access as a way to propagate science knowledge even more efficiently. I'm not going to pay $35 or $50 for access to a single paper, and I don't know that many people who would. What really pisses me off is when a journal has you REGISTER just to read its abstracts. Of course, that's one of the many uses of PubMed.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/08/2008 08:50:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
