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Michael Eisen Door-to-door subscription scams: the dark side of The New York Times

Michael Eisen, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology | 4/16/13 | One comment

An article appeared on the front page of the Sunday New York Times purporting to expose a “parallel world of pseudo-academia, complete with prestigiously titled conferences and journals that sponsor them”.

The story describes the experience of some unnamed scientists who accepted an email invitation to a conference, which then charged … More >

Michael Eisen The past, present and future of scholarly publishing

Michael Eisen, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology | 4/11/13 | Leave a comment

I gave a talk recently at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco about science publishing and PLoS. For the first time in my life, I actually gave the talk (largely) from prepared remarks, so I thought I’d post it here. (An audio recording of the talk with Q&A is available … More >

Anna Goldstein Open access explained

Anna Goldstein, chemistry grad student | 4/8/13 | 2 comments

The conversation about scientific publishing has exploded lately, online, in print and in person. In March, the journal Nature released a special issue called The future of publishing. Also in March, Michael Eisen (molecular and cell biology professor and HHMI investigator at UC Berkeley, and co-founder of PLoS) posted a … More >

Michael Eisen How academia betrayed and continues to betray Aaron Swartz

Michael Eisen, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology | 1/25/13 | 11 comments

As news spread last week that digital rights activist Aaron Swartz had killed himself ahead of a federal trial on charges that he illegally downloaded a large database of scholarly articles with the intent to freely disseminate its contents, thousands of academics began posting free copies of their work online, … More >

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