Idea of a new typography term – keming. noun. The result of improper kerning :-)

22nd February, 2008 No Comments

I am really excited about recent Harvard University initiative:

Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences adopted a policy this evening that requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles available free online.

Although the outcome of this vote would apply only to Harvard’s arts and sciences faculty, the impact, given the university’s prestige, could be significant for the open-access movement, which seeks to make scientific and scholarly research available to as many people as possible at no cost. This is a big step forward pushing publishing inexorably towards the “Open Access” model. As well as nice addition to NIH Public-Access Policy requirements.

The comprehensive list of open access journals can be accessed at doaj.org.

19th February, 2008 1 Comment

Darwin Day is an international celebration of Darwin’s achievements in science held on February 12th, the day that Charles Darwin was born in 1809. The Darwin Day Celebration started with one event in 1995 and last year there were more than 850 Darwin Day events world-wide. Darwin Day festivities include debates, lectures, essay contests, film festivals and you can even have an “Evolution Banquet” with “Primordial Soup” followed by a “Darwin Fish Fry.” Here we are mostly writing articles but if you have a fish fry, be sure to let us know and we’ll link to it.
[via scientificblogging]

Today everyone can read Darwin’s books for free: The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1889) and The Origin of Species (1909). You can even grab a copy in PDF. Power of Google books and Stanford Lirary ;-)

11th February, 2008 1 Comment