This is a story of my first involvement pushing a publication that wanted to be University owned “all rights reserved” to becoming one released under a Creative Commons license. I’m not sure that the arcane details will be of interest to many people, but I think there’s an important lesson here about sticking to your …
What is better than Open Access?! Citizen Science AND Open Access! The March issue of JMBE was all that. You have probably already heard of Kittybiome and/or The Koala Project, 2 ongoing projects in the Eisen Lab. Both projects were featured in the paper, “Crowdfunding Campaigns Help Researchers Launch Projects and Generate Outreach”, published in …
So having gained a reputation as the toilet guy (e.g. Slate, RedOrbit, microBEnet) I felt like I just had to write about this article. Plus it sounds really cool. This article is by Jennifer Fouquier (also cool) who is in Scott Kelly’s lab at UC San Diego San Diego State. The title “Rapid assemblage of …
When I first started trying to do PCR in Colleen Cavanaugh‘s lab in 1989, I was kind of on my own. Colleen was a newly hired profession at Harvard. She was busy getting things set up. And I was the only person in the lab – and I really knew very little. And basically I …
I wrote this for the Google Scholar blog where it was posted recently.  I am reposting it here becuase I thought it might be of interest to the microBEnet audience.
While not exactly the microbiology of the built environment, studies of the human microbiome are the next closest thing and and understanding of both will be critical to creating healthier living environments. The American Gut project is the largest, crowdfunded/citizen science human microbiome effort, with over 3,000 participants so far (including myself). In addition to …
One of our goals this year for microBEnet is to start to build a protocol library for members of the community. This library would hopefully include methods for carrying out all sorts of different kinds of work – from how to sample dust in a building (e.g., do you use a shop vac or a …
Crossposting from “The Tree of Life”: How to find an Open Access journal for submitting your paper(s) … Got asked a question on Twitter that seems worthwhile to post here @phylogenomics any suggestions for appropriate open access journal for a geomicrobio/clay mineral – Cr reduction/ kinetics paper? – Paul Glasser (@glasserp) August 21, 2012 Well, @glasserp …
This will be of interest to many I think: Science as an open enterprise – Report | Royal Society It is a comprehensive report from the Royal Society with links to videos, text, previous meetings, references, EPUBs, and more relating to a report that was released a few days ago. From the web site: Six key …