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Paywall for science articles, yes or no?

Science funders are now getting into the act: Why should people have to pay to read science that has been funded?

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How Unpaywall is opening up science

In 2011, “de-roomed” computer scientists developed a way to open up access to journal papers: After being kicked out of a hotel conference room where they had participated in a three-day open-science workshop and hackathon, a group of computer scientists simply moved to an adjacent hallway. There, Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem and Cristhian Parra worked Read More…

harry Consider the following imaginary scenario: I say to you “This will take a while but stick around and you will... – Eric Hedin: Information and Nature
Silver Asiatic FH You could quote me. I went back and searched for your commentary. That way I could quote you. Because... – How could we test universal common...
ET The information content of the universe exponentially increased with the formation of the first living organism. In an Intelligently Designed... – Eric Hedin: Information and Nature
bornagain77 "That Meyer made this big mistake is disappointing to me." My bet is that it is SA who is making... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
ET Fred Hickson: 'My position is that the source of guidance is a philosophical question that is impossible to resolve scientifically.... – How could we test universal common...
Silver Asiatic KF So, Meyer is affirming that deists see God as personal. That's certainly one view, but the important thing is... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
Nonlin.org Tlh@2, Actually no. Entropy decreasing is never happening. 2nd law is in fact not a statistical law as believed. Abiogenesis... – Article by David Snoke: Spontaneous Appearance...
Lieutenant Commander Data Jerry 3) Christ started a religion – fairly obvious from the New Testament – nothing in ID says anything about... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
EDTA Frankly, I'm skeptical that the probability of a machine putting a system into a particular state is related to the... – Article by David Snoke: Spontaneous Appearance...
jerry the origin of life represents an unnatural event in the history of our universe Certainly, the four laws of nature... – Eric Hedin: Information and Nature
Fred Hickson SA You replied by saying that climate was not random but rather was “guided by the hand of God”. You... – How could we test universal common...
EDTA Good luck and thank you for all your hard work, Denyse! Welcome Eric! – Eric Hedin is the new News...
EDTA Read Snoke's article a few weeks ago. There is one thing that needs to be explained: In his example of... – Article by David Snoke: Spontaneous Appearance...
kairosfocus F/N: Ch 11 in Meyer, Return of the God Hypothesis: Metaphysics is the discipline of philosophy that addresses the fundamental... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
kairosfocus Relatd, that is why we mark a distinction between a key inference and research programme and the wider design movement.... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
bornagain77 as to: "The information content of the universe exponentially increased with the formation of the first living organism. Since natural... – Eric Hedin: Information and Nature
relatd KF at 139, I get it. But science does get applied, doesn't it? It gets used by people. Until ID... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
ET A great analogy for how evolution has been corrupted by those that choose to conflate evolution and atheism, is how... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
polistra In another context, this sort of talk would be a Conspiracy Theory fit for the loony bin. In a tenured... – Ghostly ‘mirror world’ might be cause...
kairosfocus Relatd, science is shot through with deep philosophical considerations from the outset. However, we can take it that many will... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...
kairosfocus JH, a loaded strawman. Disagreement is not lying, speaking with disregard to truth in hope of profiting thereby is lying.... – Evolution News: In His New Book,...