On this Christmas day, my favorite source of information on digital photography celebrates its tenth anniversary! DPReview is not only primary source of photograhic invormation but also global community and network of people passionate about photography. My sincere congratulations to Phil, Simon and whole DPreview team for their dedication and hard work! Amazing, last ten …
Read more »Traditionally, at the end of the year Science and Nature come up with kind of top science breakthroughs of 2008. These two lists correspond to the two different approaches. Science magazine judges pure scientific meaning, while Nature also count broader impacts like news, and future implications. Personally, I share Nature’s view on the most important …
Read more »Historic storm just pulled away all across the Southeast US. The storm produced early season and record-setting snow across parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. By noon today, metro Jackson and much of the state is covered in a blanket of snow 10 5 cm thick. Up to 20 cm of snow fell northeast of …
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Are you still struggling to organize your article collection manually? The recent PLoS Computational Biology article reviews several next generation web bibliographic tools and compare them. Authors emphasize several issues with current tools and possible ways how to overcome them. Do you use any mentioned desktop or web–based tools? Why? Many scientists now manage the bulk …
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OA is a growing international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked doors that once hid knowledge. It encourages the unrestricted sharing of research results with everyone, everywhere, for the advancement and enjoyment of science and society.
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In recent years, scientific publishing has changed profoundly as the Internet simplified access to the scientific journals that once required a trip to a university library. That ease of access has caused many to question why commercial publishers are able to dictate the terms by which publicly funded research is made available to the public that paid for it.
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