A new Scienceblog: Built on Facts. Sweet, more physicists:
Matt Springer is a graduate student of physics at Texas A&M university. He is also an occasional writer and tinkerer, and he is probably too curious for his own good.
It's a good think he's not a cat, eh?
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The academic world and its detractors are all a-tizzy about this recent news reported here:
Early yesterday morning I received an email from my publisher that the journal for which I am co-editor in chief has been sold. Our journal is one of 180 published by BioMedCentral (BMC), the largest open access scientific publisher.
Open access publisher BioMed Central sold to Springer:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute has announced a policy to
promote open-access publication of scientific papers. They
are not only supporting it philosophically, but financially as well.
In fact, they are not only supporting it, but requiring