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JoVE goes closed access

User Image jwilbanks | April 1, 2009
Big FriendFeed chatter on the interwebs yesterday about JoVE "moving" to a closed access model. This is being covered extensively on the FF conversation so I won't dredge through the points there - if you want to see the arguing and JoVE responses, head over there. What's interesting for me is the lack of conversation about the importance of licensing. There is a reason Open Access talks about copyrights in the definitions. Let's go back and remember: By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy,…

Parkinson's disease, GFP, and seeing the video in JOVE

sporte | October 10, 2008
Sometimes words fail me. Luckily, we have videos. Many of you have probably read about Roger Tsien receiving the Nobel Prize this work for his work with the green fluorescent protein (GFP), but I bet some of you are wondering, why a jellyfish protein is worth a Noble Prize. I think one of the best places to see why GFP is important, and also to see what some scientists do during the day, is JOVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments. The wonderful video, that's shown in this image, describes a new method for investigating Parkinson's disease. This is the kind of biological work that we…