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Tag Archives: 2011
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
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
Time for a dig in the desert
Today’s Open Access File of the Day is an impression from archaeological excavations at the open-air site of Aybut Al Auwal in the Dhofar mountains in Oman. Fig. 11 of the article The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry … Continue reading
The lab notebook is attached
Missing data is a big obstacle in the way towards making science more transparent and efficient, and Open Notebook Science attempts to overcome this barrier by posting any research-related data and notes as they arise, such that – as Jean-Claude Bradley put … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, CC BY, Creative Commons, data, David Botstein, electronic notebook, German, Gregory I. Lang, Jean-Claude Bradley, Korean, lab notebook, missing data, notebook, Open Data, Open Notebook Science, Open Science, paper, PDF, PLoS ONE, supplementary materials, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, yeast
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Let’s celebrate Public Domain Day!
Today is Public Domain Day, as on January 1 each year, works whose copyright has expired enter the Public Domain and can thus be used, reused and shared without any copyright restrictions. The details still differ a bit across jurisdictions, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1941, 2011, 2012, copyright, James Joyce, Open Knowledge, open licenses, public domain, Public Domain Day, Public Domain Review, Virginia Woolf
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Traces of a feast
Major holidays in cultures around the world are accompanied by feasts of various sorts. A feast of a different kind is depicted in today’s Open Access File of the Day - leaf mines, traces of larval (Phyllocnistis hyperpersea) consumption on a leaf … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, David Wagner, Donald Davis, English, Feast, Holiday, JPG, larva, leaf miner, leaf mines, leaf mining, Persea borborina, Phyllocnistis hyperpersea, traces, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, ZooKeys
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Open Access File of the Day on Wikimedia Commons: Longdan tiger.png
Today’s Open Access File of the Day is an illustration of soft tissue reconstruction, drawn by Velizar Simeonovski of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. It highlights how the shape of the skull of a fossil species, along … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, CC BY, Creative Commons, English, Field Museum, fossils, German, Ji H. Mazák, Longdan tiger, muscles, Open Access, Panthera zdanskyi, PLoS ONE, PNG, skull, soft tissue, soft tissue reconstruction, Spanish, Velizar Simeonovski, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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