http://thebeagleproject.blogspot.com/2007/11/open-access-science-publishing-lands.html
Here's a glass of Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon to PLoS ONE, Sereno et al and their decision to reveal Nigersaurus taqueti in an open access journal. I don't work as a professional scientist, but I'm a scientifically literate cheerleader from the sidelines (and I'm not the only one), and it's fantastic for me to be able to read this stuff: some of it is above my pay grade, but with a bit of reading around I can understand it all, and even without understanding every word I can relish the work. The more science is freely available the more interested minds might be able understand what science does and what science means.
Here is the article
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001230
Other blog and media coverage at
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/11/extreme_dinosaur_nigersaurus_t.php
German coverage
http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=1663283&newsfeed=rss
Here's a glass of Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon to PLoS ONE, Sereno et al and their decision to reveal Nigersaurus taqueti in an open access journal. I don't work as a professional scientist, but I'm a scientifically literate cheerleader from the sidelines (and I'm not the only one), and it's fantastic for me to be able to read this stuff: some of it is above my pay grade, but with a bit of reading around I can understand it all, and even without understanding every word I can relish the work. The more science is freely available the more interested minds might be able understand what science does and what science means.
Here is the article
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001230
Other blog and media coverage at
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/11/extreme_dinosaur_nigersaurus_t.php
German coverage
http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=1663283&newsfeed=rss
KlausGraf - am Samstag, 17. November 2007, 21:32 - Rubrik: English Corner
