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This new report is ready to be downloaded (in pdf format) from the
canonicalscience site.
It is a /perspective/ of 16 pages long that deals with some problems of
physics. It extends a number of other works published in /Nature/ and /
Physics Today/ by other authors.
This is the abstract:
(\abstract
This report presents a nonidealized vision of 21st century science. It
handles some social, political, and economic problems that affect the
heart of scientific endeavour and are carrying important consequences
for scientists and the rest of society.
The problems analyzed are the current tendency to limit the size of
scholarly communications, the funding of research, the rates and page
charges of journals, the wars for the intellectual property of the data
and results of research, and the replacement of impartial reviewing by
anonymous censorship. The scope includes an economic analysis of PLoS'
finances, the wars APS versus Wikipedia and ACS versus NIH, and a list
of thirty four Nobel Laureates whose awarded work was rejected by peer
review.
Several suggestions from Harry Morrow Brown, Lee Smolin, Linda Cooper,
and the present author for solving the problems are included in the
report. The work finishes with a brief section on the reasons to be
optimists about the future of science.
)
Comments ans corrections are welcomed.
NEWS LINK:
http://www.canonicalscience.org/en/publicationzone/
canonicalsciencetoday/20081113.html
Also accesible from index,
--
http://www.canonicalscience.org/
canonicalscience site.
It is a /perspective/ of 16 pages long that deals with some problems of
physics. It extends a number of other works published in /Nature/ and /
Physics Today/ by other authors.
This is the abstract:
(\abstract
This report presents a nonidealized vision of 21st century science. It
handles some social, political, and economic problems that affect the
heart of scientific endeavour and are carrying important consequences
for scientists and the rest of society.
The problems analyzed are the current tendency to limit the size of
scholarly communications, the funding of research, the rates and page
charges of journals, the wars for the intellectual property of the data
and results of research, and the replacement of impartial reviewing by
anonymous censorship. The scope includes an economic analysis of PLoS'
finances, the wars APS versus Wikipedia and ACS versus NIH, and a list
of thirty four Nobel Laureates whose awarded work was rejected by peer
review.
Several suggestions from Harry Morrow Brown, Lee Smolin, Linda Cooper,
and the present author for solving the problems are included in the
report. The work finishes with a brief section on the reasons to be
optimists about the future of science.
)
Comments ans corrections are welcomed.
NEWS LINK:
http://www.canonicalscience.org/en/publicationzone/
canonicalsciencetoday/20081113.html
Also accesible from index,
--
http://www.canonicalscience.org/
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