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Monthly Archives: February 2012
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For Open Access Week last year, Alex Holcombe made a video in which an academic publisher explains why researchers have to sign copyright transfer agreements for the scholarly articles they wrote. This video is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons today under … Continue reading
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On the purpose of copyright transfer agreements
For Open Access Week last year, Alex Holcombe made a video in which an academic publisher explains why researchers have to sign copyright transfer agreements for the scholarly articles they wrote. This video is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons today under … Continue reading
Ten Years of Open Access – and how to celebrate the wiki way
Ten years ago, the Budapest Open Access Initiative went public by inviting individuals and organizations to sign a statement in support of Open Access to the scholarly literature, defined as its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users … Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary, BioMed Central, Blue Rasberry, Budapest, Budapest Open Access, Copernicus, Creative Commons, Free Online Scholarship, Frontiers, Hindawi, Open Access, Open Access File of the Day, open licenses, Pensoft, PLoS, Reuse, WikiProject Open Access
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For some, Blue Monday is green under UV light
After featuring a model organism yesterday, today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts another one: mice. The photo – taken under illumination with ultraviolet light – shows two transgenic mice (on the left and right) expressing enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein, whereas … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, blue, BMC Cancer, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, English, German, GFP, Green Fluorescent Protein, Ingrid Moen, JPG, mice, model organism, mouse, mus musculus, ultraviolet, Wikipedia
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Fast growth may be debilitating
Model organisms are used in many branches of the life sciences in order to render the study of particular structures or mechanism more amenable to experimental manipulation. Zebra finches have helped to address research loads of research questions related to … Continue reading
Deconstructing pyrophilous beetles
On December 14, we got a glimpse of the Northwest Crown Fire Modeling Experiment, one of the most detailed studies of forest fires. Today, we return to the subject of forest fires: pyrophilous insect species like the beetle Melanophila acuminata lay their eggs … Continue reading
Tail kinkiness varies among genetically identical littermates
Axin is a regulator of Wnt signaling, and a mutation in the axin gene can lead to cloned mice differing in the kinkiness of their tail, as shown in today’s Open Access File of the Day. Fig. 1 of the feature Human Epigenome … Continue reading
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Tagged 2003, CC BY, Creative Commons, epigenome, Feature, genome, Jane Bradbury, kinkiness, mice, model organism, PLoS Biology, PNG, tail, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktionary
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GLAM/Newsletter/January 2012/Contents/Open Access report
For some reason, I had forgotten to mention here the three reports that I had put into This Month in GLAM for January (available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License or compatible). So I will paste the one on Open … Continue reading
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Tagged featured content, GLAM, Open Access, report, This Month in GLAM, tools, WikiProject Open Access
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A beautiful mountain with wings
Today’s Open Access File of the Day takes us to a mountainous area in northwestern Yunnan, China, which is the habitat of some of chaos theory’s most famous mascots – butterflies, specifically of the species Phengaris atroguttata and Phengaris xiushani. The latter was recently described, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, butterfly, CC BY, China, Chinese, Creative Commons, English, habitat, Josef Settele, JPG, landscape, Min Wang, mountains, Phengaris atroguttata, Phengaris xiushani, Polish, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Xiu-Shan, Xiushan Li, Yunnan, ZooKeys
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Universal access to oxygenated blood? Please enter credit card details.
In light of the ongoing debate around the Research Works Act, universal access and the role of publishers in research communication, some images – like the suckling pigs on December 21 or today’s Open Access File of the Day - may take on a special meaning: just imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008, academic publishing, Bulgarian, Caitlin Sedwick, CC BY, Creative Commons, fetus, Greek, JPG, Open Access, placenta, PLoS Biology, Research Works Act, scholarly communication, SENP2, Shang-Yi Chiu, synopsis, umbilical cord, universal access, Wei Hsu, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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