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8,200+ Strong, Researchers Band Together To Force Science Journals To Open Access | Singularity Hub
Academic research is behind bars and an online boycott by 8,209 researchers (and counting) is seeking to set it free…well, more free than it has been. The boycott targets Elsevier, the publisher of popular journals like Cell and The Lancet, for its aggressive business practices, but opposition was electrified by Elsevier’s backing of a Congressional bill titled the Research Works Act (RWA). Though lesser known than the other high-profile, privacy-related bills SOPA and PIPA, the act was slated to reverse the Open Access Policy enacted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2008 that granted the public free access to any article derived from NIH-funded research. Now, only a month after SOPA and PIPA were defeated thanks to the wave of online protests, the boycotting researchers can chalk up their first win: Elsevier has withdrawn its support of the RWA, although the company downplayed the role of the boycott in its decision, and the oversight committee killed it right away.
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Coding Reinvented For The Ipad
I learnt two important lessons during an idyllic holiday in Thailand over new year: Firstly I should relax more often, and secondly I should be able to code on my iPad when I am done relaxing. My resolve to relax more evaporated as soon as my fingers touched my keyboard back home, but the realisation that my iPad will never be a computer in my eyes until I can comfortably code on it didn't leave me. The accepted wisdom is that the iPad is a device for content consumption, not content creation, but I want my iPad to be more than an apparatus for donating more money to Apple, and I returned from Thailand on a mission to be able to code on my iPad. I am writing here to reveal my solution.
Monday, March 19, 2012
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