University Of California Approves Major Open Access Policy To Make Research Free

Good news for fans of the scientific method: the largest and most influential university system on the planet will be giving out its research for free. After 6-year-long fight with the for-profit academic publishing industry, the University of California Senate approved open access standards for research on all 10 campuses. The policy is major win for those who want to see academic research made public, rather than behind the pricy paywalls of big publishers. Last year, Harvard Library penned a memo urging the university’s 2,100 faculty to boycott for-profit academic research databases and instead submit articles to lower-cost open access journals. Universities pay millions for access to their colleague’s research, with subscriptions costs up to $40,000 for a single journal. Publishing, too, can cost many times more for more prestigious closed-access journals. Nature reports that it can cost $5,000 to publish in the biology journal, Cell Reports, but only $1,350 for the most popular open-access journal PLoS ONE. ?It’s still ludicrous how much it costs to publish research,” said molecular biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, Michael Eisen. The open access movement has friends in high-places. Recently, in response to a WeThePeople petition, the White House pledged a whopping $100 million to promote open access and to require all federally-funded research to be free of charge. There are issues with open access; it costs money to curate high-quality peer-review and market the research. Many academic papers take years to write, and its a risky proposition to leave it in the hands of an experimental publisher. But, speaking as a writer who likes to include academic research in my articles, open access could not come soon enough. Media outlets get inundated with research findings, but often can’t get access to the articles to report on them critically. Open access may not be perfect, but it is the future. The more people use it, the better the journals will become. And, ultimately, there will be little need for closed access at all.

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The Flea

By Bora Zivkovic?| July 31, 2013 |??

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Image of the Week #102, July 31st, 2013:

From: How the Fleas? Next of Kin Ended up Living on a Liverwort in Alaska by Jennifer Frazer at The Artful Amoeba.

Source: The Flea, by Robert Hooke. From Micrographia, 1665. Public domain.

At first glance, Robert Hooke?s illustration of a flea is basic, clean, and straightforward. Under today?s standards of 3D computer graphics, we might not even look twice at it. But note the year: 1665! The flea first appeared as an 18-inch engraving in Hooke?s classic Micrographia. At the time, no one save a few pioneers of early microscopy had ever seen a small invertebrate magnified. Hooke?s flea would have been most people?s only acquaintance with the finer details of this common parasite. Seeing this speck of an animal with every hair, every sclerite in enlarged detail must have been a revelation. For more about this image, see here.

About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.

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Pew poll: GOP voters have a fee-vah and the only prescription is ? Paul Ryan?

posted at 3:01 pm on July 31, 2013 by Allahpundit

I think he?s going to end up not running, but if his favorables stay this high, maybe he has no choice.

He?s technically ?next in line? and he?d make a decent compromise candidate (as would fellow Wisconsinite Scott Walker) for righties who are leery of Christie, Paul, and Rubio for various reasons. Second look at Paul Ryan?

Are Ryan?s numbers really that surprising? He?s been overlooked on blogs lately because we?ve all been busy shaking our fists at Rubio over immigration and gawking at the Rand Paul/Chris Christie brawl, but thanks to 2012, Ryan?s name recognition is sky high. He?s a warrior on the budget but soft-spoken enough not to spook moderates. Grassroots righties are newly steamed at him because he seems to be slipping into the Rubio role in the House of pushing conservatives towards a deal on amnesty, but nothing?s happened yet and he?s smart enough to keep a much lower profile on the issue than Rubio did. Most low-information voters on our side probably know him as that nice young guy from the midwest who?s deeply concerned that our spending is unsustainable. Why wouldn?t he be at 65 percent favorables? And why wouldn?t he have better numbers with tea partiers than with centrists? His core issue is reforming the welfare state. Centrists resist that, partly because they?re more comfortable with bigger government and partly because they?re probably more sensitive on balance to ?electability? concerns. Conservatives might be willing to risk a ferocious political backlash in the name of fixing entitlements. I doubt many centrists are.

The real surprise is Rand Paul?s numbers. His favorables among tea partiers are now 11 points better than Rubio?s, thanks in part to immigration, of course. But his numbers among non-tea-partiers are comparable to centrist hero Chris Christie?s and amnesty champion Marco Rubio?s. Maybe that?ll change in the primaries as his philosophy is scrutinized more closely; if centrists think Paul Ryan is too much of a threat to the welfare state, wait ?til they get a load of the great libertarian hope. Christie?s unfavorables among non-TPers are also a mild surprise. I wonder if that?s more a reaction to his policies or to fatigue with his tough-guy shtick. Either way, maybe he?s more vulnerable than we thought.

One more graph:

For all the babbling about party divisions lately vis-a-vis defunding ObamaCare, there?s only minor division on immigration. Pluralities on both the right and in the center think the GOP should be more conservative about the border. Tell me something, though: What would it mean for the party to be ?more conservative? on gay marriage at this point? Despite a heavy tide nationally and in government in favor of legalizing SSM, only a handful of congressional Republicans have come out in support of it. House Republicans sued to enforce DOMA because Obama?s DOJ refused to. Rubio declared that benefits for gay spouses under the Gang of Eight bill would have been a dealbreaker for him. What should the party be doing to please social conservatives that it isn?t? Forget about the Federal Marriage Amendment. That?s nothing but a rhetorical device at this point; it?ll never pass.

I?m loath to close with something from Think Progress but if their transcript of this Paul Ryan townhall vid is accurate, it?s news. Here he is on immigration reform:

RYAN: [...] Bringing these bills to the floor, we?ll find out. It is not, ?they don?t come to the floor unless we have a majority of the majority,? because we don?t know if we have a majority until we vote on it. So here?s where I see things going. I?ve spoken to John Boehner as recently as three days ago about this, which is, we all agree it is better to legislate in stages instead of one big thousand plus page bill that no one has read. [...] I?m trying to get to a consensus so a majority of us do support those component parts. I believe that?s achievable because when people really look at the details and they focus on what?s right, I believe what I?ve just laid out is something that a consensus of Republicans and Democrats can agree to.

Is that quote accurate? The audio makes it hard to tell. The whole point of the Hastert Rule is not to bring bills to the floor until the Speaker knows that a majority of his caucus supports them. Doing it the way Ryan describes (or seems to describe) would mean abandoning the Hastert Rule; you bring the bill to the floor, kinda sorta hoping/expecting that a majority of GOPers will vote for it, and if it turns out that only a few dozen do ? plus 200 Democrats, such that the bill passes ? then whoopsie! Guess they miscalculated. Is that what he?s saying or did TP misunderstand?

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Relative blames dim barge lights for NY boat crash

PIERMONT, N.Y. (AP) ? The stepfather of a bride-to-be killed in a boating accident on the Hudson River said no one aboard saw the construction barge near the Tappan Zee Bridge before crashing into it.

Walter Kosik said he spoke to his daughter's fiance, Brian Bond, who told him all six people on the powerboat had their eyes on the river, but no one saw the barge's dim lights.

"What we want to talk about is the lighting on the barges," Kosik told The Journal News (http://lohud.us/1ckOoOe). "You've got two anchor lights, one on each side of the barge. With the glare off the bridge, you can't see it."

He continued: "It's just amazing that, the following day, (Gov. Andrew) Cuomo put lights on those barges, lighting it up like a Christmas tree 24 hours from when they got killed."

The New York State Thruway Authority has said that the barge lighting appeared to be functioning normally, but it remained part of the investigation.

The extra lights were added "because we wanted to go above and beyond to try and prevent something like this from happening again," spokesman Dan Weiler said.

Bond was to marry Lindsey Stewart on Aug. 10; his best man, Mark Lennon, also died. Both were 30. Bond and the three other people were injured.

Bond told Kosik that they all had about one alcoholic beverage each before Friday's crash. Boat operator Jojo John had a few drinks, Kosik said, adding, "If he was that drunk, they would not have gotten onto the boat."

John was charged with vehicular homicide in Stewart's death. He hasn't been charged in connection with Lennon's death. His lawyer called the crash "a tragedy for all of us."

The Journal on Wednesday identified the remaining two survivors as John Schumacher, 44, and Daniel Dilorgi, 28, both of Valley Cottage.

Dilorgi was recovering at home. Schumacher was in surgery Tuesday, according to his lawyer, John Pappalardo.

A funeral service for Stewart was scheduled for Thursday at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Pear River, where she was to have been wed. Lennon's funeral was set for Friday at St. John the Baptist Church in Piermont.

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Three Small Business Courses: Branding, Finance and Social Media

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