{"id":2087,"date":"2011-05-18T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T21:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:06","slug":"david-dobbs-on-the-importance-of-open-source-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/18\/david-dobbs-on-the-importance-of-open-source-science\/","title":{"rendered":"David Dobbs on the importance of open-source science"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Right now, most scientific research exists behind paywalls. And expensive paywalls at that. A license to read a single <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/04\/22\/meet-science-what-is.html\">peer-reviewed journal article<\/a> can set you back $50. Depending on the journal, that number might be a little lower, or a little higher, but access usually doesn&#8217;t come cheap &#8230; even if the research was funded with public money. When I write about a paper, I usually have to request a copy from the researcher before I can even know whether the paper in question is one I want to write about. And it&#8217;s not just journalists that get locked out. Even scientists themselves can&#8217;t always get access to the papers they need to read in order to do their jobs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/05\/free-science-one-paper-at-a-time-2\/all\/1\">New science is being stifled by the old business of scientific publishing<\/a>, argues science journalist David Dobbs.<\/p>\n<p>Open-access journals are different. These publications\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe most famous being the Public Library of Science, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plos.org\/\">or PLoS<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmake all the papers they publish available to anyone online, rather than printing expensive paper copies for subscribers. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/05\/free-science-one-paper-at-a-time-2\/all\/1\">a great article at his Neuron Culture blog<\/a>, Dobbs makes the case for open-access science:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via BoingBoing &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/05\/18\/david-dobbs-on-the-i.html\">David Dobbs on the importance of open-source science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, most scientific research exists behind paywalls. And expensive paywalls at that. A license to read a single peer-reviewed journal article can set you back $50. Depending on the journal, that number might be a little lower, or a little higher, but access usually doesn&#8217;t come cheap &#8230; even if the research was funded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/18\/david-dobbs-on-the-importance-of-open-source-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Dobbs on the importance of open-source science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[425,427,426],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-open","tag-open-source","tag-openscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10133,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/10133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}