Perspectives on Academic Publishing: Can we Find Common Ground?

We can shift academic culture through publishing choices

Researchers give papers for free (and often actually pay) to exploitative publishers who make millions off of our articles by locking them behind paywalls. This discriminates not only against the public (who are usually the ones that paid for the research in the first place), but also against the academics from institutions that cannot afford to pay for journal subscriptions and the 'scholarly ...

Can We Find Common Rules of Browsing Behavior?

This paper describes our efforts to investigate factors in user’s browsing behavior to automatically evaluate web pages that the user shows interest in. To evaluate web pages automatically, we developed a client-side logging/analyzing tool: the GINIS Framework. We do not focus on just clicking, scrolling, navigation, or duration of visit alone, but we propose integrating these patterns of inter...

Cold war rivals find common ground.

Frederick W. Alt Don L. Anderson Michael Ashburner Stephen J. Benkovic David E. Bloom Floyd E. Bloom Piet Borst Henry R. Bourne Michael S. Brown James J. Bull Kathryn Calame C. Thomas Caskey Dennis W. Choi John M. Coffin F. Fleming Crim Paul J. Crutzen James E. Dahlberg Robert Desimone Bruce F. Eldridge Paul T. Englund Richard G. Fairbanks Douglas T. Fearon Harry A. Fozzard Klaus Friedrich Theo...

What academic publishing can do for science?

Burst Remnants : How can we find them ?

By now there is substantial evidence that Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) originate at cosmological distances from very powerful explosions. The interaction between a GRB and its surrounding environment has dramatic consequences on the environment itself. At early times, the strong X-ray UV afterglow flux photoionizes the medium on distance scales on the order of 100 pc [7], destroys dust [10], creates...