On the Agenda – Week 11, 2014
Take 1 – Open Access
@OATP: I ask Julian Huppert and David Willetts to formally investigate Elsevier’s unacceptable “Gold Open Access”
@BernardRentier: Cornell University Libraries Face Escalating Journal Costs
@Davidecarroll: “We can’t live with anything less than Open”
Take 2 – Research
@MITEngineering: Why hasn’t air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s?
@PlosOne: How Does Tree Density Affect Water Loss of Peatlands?
@Stanford: A new study maps hot spots where sea turtles and dolphins become unintended victims of intensive global fishing
Take 3 – Generation Z
@ThomCollinsWS: A world at war: Generation Z
@PareshKevat: Generation Z: The Most Overrated and Underrated Degrees
@BitWiz_Nathan: Get insight into the future consumer’s brain: Interview with Generation Z
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: Honors-education elitist? Dr. Kevin William Dean refutes this and stresses the role of students as change agents.
@ScienceGuideEU: “How could you start an awesome company when you’re making homework the whole night?” What can policy-makers and educators learn from the brightest teenage inventors?
