Welcome to the third in a PLOS BLOGS six-part series, Talking about Drug Prices & Access to Medicines. To borrow a phrase from one of…
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ethics Talking Drug Prices, Pt. 3 If you play with scorpions, don’t be surprised when you get stung by Atif KukaswadiaRead more
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post Talking Drug Prices Pt 2: This Blog Post Will Cost You by Jessica WapnerRead more
Welcome to the second in a PLOS BLOGS six-part series, Talking about Drug Prices & Access to Medicines. To borrow a phrase from one…
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post Talking about Drug Prices & Access to Medicines Pt 1: By Els Torreele, Open Society FoundationsRead more
Welcome to a PLOS BLOGS six-part series, Talking about Drug Prices & Access to Medicines. To borrow a phrase from one of our bloggers…
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The Student Blog Why Science Journal Paywalls Have to GoRead more
A guest post by student scientist Jack Andraka After a close family friend died from pancreatic cancer, I turned to the Internet…
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Open Access Open Access From a Patient Advocate’s Perspective: “Inserting Ourselves into the Science of a Condition”Read more
An OA Week guest post by patient advocate Christy Collins My daughter, Signe, was born with a very rare genetic condition called…
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Guest Post Reusing, Revising, Remixing and Redistributing ResearchRead more
An OA Week guest post by Daniel Mietchen The initial purpose of Open Access is to enable researchers to make use of…
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Guest Post Citizenship, Scholarship, and the Republic of ScienceRead more
A guest post for OA Week by Barbara Fister Every spring, when I teach a course for upper-division undergraduates interested in knowing…
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Guest Post Tim Vollmer of Creative Commons on HowOpenIsIt?Read more
This is a guest post from Timothy Vollmer, Manager of Policy and Data for Creative Commons Congratulations to PLOS, SPARC, and OASPA…
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Guest Post Fish, Antidepressants, Autism and a Problematic Research PremiseRead more
This week saw publication of a PLOS One paper on a potential environmental cause of autism that caught the attention of the…
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ethics Should Chimpanzees Have Moral Standing? An Interview with Frans de WaalRead more
Whether from hubris or insecurity, humans like to view our species as the crown of creation, beings beyond compare in the animal…
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Guest Post The Renaissance man: how to become a scientist over and over againRead more
Editor’s note: This post originally ran on Ed Yong’s blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, and has been reposted here with permission. -B.Mossop…
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Guest Post Anatomy LessonRead more
Editor’s note: Rebecca German is a Visiting Fellow and Officer of Harvard University where she took gross anatomy as a student, and…