As making historical papers OA is something I am very interested in, I am watching with great interest, as Jonathan Eisen attempts to make all of his father's scientific publications freely available. I think we will learn a lot from his experience about copyright, fuzzy laws, attitudes of different publishers, etc., and can use that knowledge to help more old papers see the light of day online for everyone to see, read and use.
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One of science's saving graces is that a fair number of scientists will publicly admit that they are wrong (and then there's Marc Hauser*...).
And they're doing it open access style.
Jonathan Eisen is the new Academic Editor in Chief at PLoS Biology, and he's kicking it off with this editorial.
It’s been nearly two decades since the last publication of a nationwide survey on the distribution of blacklegged ticks — the primary transmitters of Lyme disease. That survey, released in 1998, reported the tick in 30 percent of U.S. counties.