tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post8271173015817732343..comments2024-03-28T00:36:36.460-07:00Comments on The Tree of Life: Guardian on Open AccessJonathan Eisenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-9733412524255008942007-02-12T08:26:00.000-08:002007-02-12T08:26:00.000-08:00I guess that is what he meant but it seems so inan...I guess that is what he meant but it seems so inane since lots of articles fo actually provide links to the publications. Maybe just not in the big newspapers, but lots of small ones do itJonathan Eisenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953790938128734305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10781944.post-65774148122906464002007-02-11T07:25:00.000-08:002007-02-11T07:25:00.000-08:00I think he means that in most popularizations of s...I think he means that in most popularizations of science in newspapers there aren't any links to the original paper at all (whether in closed or open access journals) -- generally they just say "A team of scientists at Harvard have reported a new cancer breakthrough in this week's _Nature_" or something like that rather than giving the url of the paper or even just a full citation.<BR/><BR/>An actual link to the paper would teach the public pretty quickly that they can access the articles in open access journals and not the closed ones, and hopefully get them to wonder why.Jonathan Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04921990886076027719noreply@blogger.com