Journal of Peer Production - 0 views
RC JOURNAL: Money Garden? - Global Guerrillas - 0 views
All's Not Fair in Science and Publishing | The Scientist Magazine® - 0 views
www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32287/title/All-s-Not-Fair-in-Science-and-Publishing/
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My takeaway lesson was that the safest strategy was to divulge my results only after they were accepted for publication. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way. Science is too often a cutthroat venture, with publications as the currency for measuring one’s success. But with everyone keeping their findings secret until they have been approved by the peer-review process, aren’t we slowing the course of scientific discovery?
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Scientists have failed to establish clear mores for crediting discoveries
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Many believe that false attribution is actually increasing in frequency, likely motivated by the steady decrease in grant-funding rates.
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Death of evidence : Nature : Nature Publishing Group - 1 views
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Of paramount concern for basic scientists is the elimination of the Can$25-million (US$24.6-million) RTI, administered by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), which funds equipment purchases of Can$7,000–150,000.
Did the Other Shoe Just Drop? Big Banks Hit with Monster $250 Billion Lawsuit in Housin... - 0 views
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The reason for this is that credit is merely one way by which a society manages the distribution of goods and services. . . . A credit collapse . . . doesn’t make the energy, raw materials, and labor vanish into some fiscal equivalent of a black hole; they’re all still there, in whatever quantities they were before the credit collapse, and all that’s needed is some new way to allocate them to the production of goods and services.
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Better would be to have an alternative system in place and ready to implement before the boom drops.
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On a national level, when the Wall Street credit system fails, the government can turn to the innovative model devised by our colonial forebears and start issuing its own currency and credit—a power now usurped by private banks but written into the US Constitution as belonging to Congress
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"The reason for this is that credit is merely one way by which a society manages the distribution of goods and services. . . . A credit collapse . . . doesn't make the energy, raw materials, and labor vanish into some fiscal equivalent of a black hole; they're all still there, in whatever quantities they were before the credit collapse, and all that's needed is some new way to allocate them to the production of goods and services." and "Better would be to have an alternative system in place and ready to implement before the boom drops." taken together may imply something other than the article's proposed solution of "On a national level, when the Wall Street credit system fails, the government can turn to the innovative model devised by our colonial forebears and start issuing its own currency and credit-a power now usurped by private banks but written into the US Constitution as belonging to Congress"
Between Copyleft and Copyfarleft: Advance reciprocity for the commons » Journ... - 0 views
Collaborations: The rise of research networks : Nature : Nature Publishing Group - 0 views
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Co-authorship has been increasing inexorably3, 4. Recently it has exploded.
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Collaboration is normally a good thing from a wider public perspective. Knowledge is better transferred and combined by collaboration, and co-authored papers tend to be cited more frequently
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The first paper with 1,000 authors was published in 2004
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Making the Tools to Do-It-Together: Open-source Compression Screw Manufacturing Case St... - 0 views
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