OpenWetWare Community » Blogs http://blog.openwetware.org/community Share your science Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:29:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 PLoS, Nature and the community backlash http://blog.openwetware.org/community/2008/07/06/plos-nature-and-the-community-backlash/ http://blog.openwetware.org/community/2008/07/06/plos-nature-and-the-community-backlash/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:08:25 +0000 Ricardo Vidal http://blog.openwetware.org/community/2008/07/06/plos-nature-and-the-community-backlash/ PLoSJust a few days ago, an article by Declan Butler was published in Nature regarding PLoS‘ open-access publishing model. This article was not well accepted by various open access advocates and science bloggers in general.

Johnathan Eisen from The Tree of Life was the first (that I noticed) to responde to the article and then many others followed along the same line.

Shortly after, Timo Hannay posted a “take two” at Nature’s Nascent that seemed to settle things down.

What I find to be the most notorious aspect in this whole string of events is that there is quite a large community of science bloggers that are ready to offer their “peer-review” in situations such as these. Is this a good thing? I would like to believe so…

Anyhow, I’ve only mentioned a few of the reactions. You can find plenty more reactions over at Bora’s Blog Around the Clock.

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