Day 85: Open-Access Journals Are Our Tax Dollars in Print (digitally speaking)

Dear fellow bloggers, Don’t you love it when you go from not knowing what you’ll write about, to not knowing how to keep your Very Exciting Topic focused, in a matter of moments? 
… and then I thought: open access! Of course!
As a longtime science journalist, I am familiar with the heavy-hitting journals: Science, Nature, Proceedings [...]

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Day 50: Kicka$$ science map for your viewing pleasure

These are the themes of scientific research in more than 2,000 scientific publications, mostly scholarly journals. Pink and blue indicate physics and chemistry, green stands for biology, red represents medicine, and yellow and white indicate social sciences and humanities. 
Johan Bollen, of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, was lead author on a paper that [...]

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