Category Archives: open access

Open collaboration principles

I’ve been trying to figure out exactly what the Open Collaboration Principles agreed to by IBM, HP, Intel and Cisco, and seven research universities (including my own UC Berkeley) is all about. It’s being reported in some places as a new statement of support for open source, but that doesn’t seem right to me. The […]

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Fight Intelligent Design – Publish in PLoS!

I wrote this Op-Ed in response to the ongoing battles in Kansas, Georgia and Pennsylvania over ‘intelligent design’. The NYT, LAT, Washington Post and the SF Chronicle turned it down. Time to start a blog! Now that a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that intelligent design has no place in the classroom, the scientists […]

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