Tag Archives: 2011

On the purpose of copyright transfer agreements

For Open Access Week last year, Alex Holcombe made a video in which an academic publisher explains why researchers have to sign copyright transfer agreements for the scholarly articles they wrote. This video is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons today under … Continue reading

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Deconstructing pyrophilous beetles

On December 14, we got a glimpse of the Northwest Crown Fire Modeling Experiment, one of the most detailed studies of forest fires. Today, we return to the subject of forest fires: pyrophilous insect species like the beetle Melanophila acuminata lay their eggs … Continue reading

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Time for a dig in the desert

Today’s Open Access File of the Day is an impression from archaeological excavations at the open-air site of Aybut Al Auwal in the Dhofar mountains in Oman.     Fig. 11 of the article The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry … Continue reading

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Miniature open-access frogs taking over?

Today’s Open Access File of the Day really is a file of the day, i.e. of January 12, 2012: published as part of the taxonomic description of a new species yesterday, it is currently featured on the main pages of the Thai, Bulgarian, English and German Wikipedias. Why? It depicts … Continue reading

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The lab notebook is attached

Missing data is a big obstacle in the way towards making science more transparent and efficient, and Open Notebook Science attempts to overcome this barrier by posting any research-related data and notes as they arise, such that – as Jean-Claude Bradley put … Continue reading

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Let’s celebrate Public Domain Day!

Today is Public Domain Day, as on January 1 each year, works whose copyright has expired enter the Public Domain and can thus be used, reused and shared without any copyright restrictions. The details still differ a bit across jurisdictions, … Continue reading

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Traces of a feast

Major holidays in cultures around the world are accompanied by feasts of various sorts. A feast of a different kind is depicted in today’s Open Access File of the Day - leaf mines, traces of larval (Phyllocnistis hyperpersea) consumption on a leaf … Continue reading

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A moth’s time, frozen in amber

Today’s Open Access File of the Day takes us on a journey into the Early Eocene by highlighting the holotype of a newly described moth species, Baltimartyria rasnitsyni, enclosed in Baltic amber. Fig. 9 of the article On the systematic position of Baltimartyria Skalski, 1995 and description … Continue reading

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Open Access File of the Day on Wikimedia Commons: Longdan tiger.png

Today’s Open Access File of the Day is an illustration of soft tissue reconstruction, drawn by Velizar Simeonovski of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. It highlights how the shape of the skull of a fossil species, along … Continue reading

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