Podcast Episode 5: Paywalling Science

The guys offer smart suggestions, discuss the Research Work's Act and the dubious role of the research publisher Elsevier in influencing it's presence in congress, and demonstrate their knowledge of the cities of Boston and New York in a game.




Links from this podcast:

• Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut
• Roller Derby Leagues
• If this then that (ifttt)
• Ukulele Underground

Further Reading:

• Boycott Elsevier
• Congress Considers Paywalling Science You Already Paid For (Wired)

Featuring the songs "Rednecks with White Faces" (Caühaüs) / (CC BY-SA 3.0) and "Late as Usual" (The Freak Fandango Orchestra) / (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Ed

Ed enjoys all forms of entertainment and has an unnatural love for quantitative methodology. He operates out of a basement in Northern Virginia (@edomaniac).

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