My previous post was really just a signal flare to see if anyone was aware of a pre-established regular blog carnival which focused on Open Science.  The consensus seems to be that no, there is not, and it would be a worthwhile idea to try.

My previous post was really just a signal flare to see if anyone was aware of a pre-established regular blog carnival which focused on Open Science.  The consensus seems to be that no, there is not, and it would be a worthwhile idea to try.

Editors of schorarly, peer-reviewed journals often claim that somehow their choosiness is the most important verdict on the quality of a scientific manuscript.

The first SciBarCamp is going on this weekend at Hart House at the University of Toronto.

Well, since everyone else is posting about this I figured I should too (see for example Steven Salzberg's Blog, The Harvard Crimson, Pharyngula).

There has been a large increase in the number of people and organisations interested in extracting or capturing chemical information from the public domain.

Following my post about shifting the storage of chemistry experiments to a results-centric model, I received lots of good feedback.

Chemical research has traditionally been organized in either experiment-centric or molecule-centric models.This makes sense from the chemist's standpoint.