Alternative models of subsidizing scholarly publishing and dissemination have germinated and gathered momentum in the fertile soil of dissatisfaction. Like the stubborn spring dandelion that needs but a small crack in the sidewalk to flower boldly, the first flowers of Open Access in library literature, including Biomedical Digital Libraries, have sensed their opportunity to change the existing...

CSP received more than 2,200 article submissions in 2016. This volume reiterates the journal’s importance as a channel for science publication in Public Health and encourages us as Editors to renew our commitment to publishing articles that explore socially relevant research issues with creativity and diversity 1. Throughout 2016, we extended our policy of opening the journal’s pages to current...

Science is all about making discoveries. That's it! It was my good fortune and Carl's good fortune to share an experiment that produced an unexpected result. In the 1960s, Carl became interested in the classification of bacteria with the ultimate goal of defining the relatedness of bacterial groups as well as events in the evolution of these organisms. He proposed to do this by studying the seq...

Since the State Agricultural School in Wageningen opened its doors in 1876, the Netherlands has had a school exclusively dedicated to researching, teaching, and propagating agricultural knowledge deemed important to the Dutch nation. Even though for most of its history the school has remained separate and inferior to Dutch academia – graduates of the school receive the telling title ‘agricultur...