From: Winston Tabb <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 02:28:05 +0000

Agreed, Rick. But we love our "rogue" Nobelists



> On Mar 17, 2016, at 10:21 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:03:27 +0000
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> I’m not sure how much an an insurgency this represents. Biologists
> have been going this route on a regular basis for several years now,
> and bioRxiv contains roughly 3,000 papers. The idea that a “handful”
> of them have suddenly “gone rogue” by placing their preprints online
> seems to be the product of an overexcitable NYT reporter’s
> imagination.
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> Rick Anderson
> Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
> Marriott Library, University of Utah
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>> From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:18:16 -0700
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>> From "tomorrow's" New York Times:
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/science/asap-bio-biologists-published-to-the-internet.html
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>> A small insurgency, but from some very visible people.
>>
>> Jim O'Donnell
>> ASU