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The Public Library of Science did not invent open access, but there's no doubt it took it to the next level : On the 13th of October in...

Some while back I wrote a piece called " Parallel Universes " looking at the surprising similarities between the world of open sou...

The journal Nature is a rather ambiguous beast. On the one hand, it represents the acme and epitome of the current science publishing syst...

In this blog, I've emphasised the parallels between open source and open access. We know that as Microsoft has become more and more thr...

One door opens , another door closes: Nature has decided to bin its open peer review experiment: Despite the significant interest in the tr...

One of the reasons it took a while for people to accept free software is that there is a traditional diffidence in the face of things that a...

It is done: the last unsequenced human chromosome - which happens to be the first in terms of size and hence numbering - has finally been ...

There's a very interesting article in this week's Nature , as part of its 2020 Computing Special (which miraculously is freely avai...

The only thing separating mankind from a pandemic that could kill 150 million people are a few changes in the RNA of the H5N1 avian 'fl...

Great story in Nature about data mashups - the mixing together of data drawn from disparate sources to create a sum greater than the parts....

The news that the Wellcome Trust has reached an agreement with three publishers of scientific journals to allow Wellcome-funded research pub...

My heart leapt last week upon seeing the latest issue of Nature magazine. The front cover showed the iconic picture of Watson and Crick, ...