ScienceInsider has an interesting article about the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) posted online last week. The declaration recommends that institutions and agencies "eliminate the use of journal-based metrics, such as Jour… more »

Open Access (OA) is good for science, good for the library, good for authors. The UCB libraries will help pay the author fees if you want to publish your article in an OA jourtnal. However, a world of psudo-journals, sometimes labelled "predatory j… more »

The Library will be sponsoring a number of events during Open Access Week and all are invited to attend! There are two events of particular interest for faculty and researchers in the sciences: Open Access at UC: Maximizing the Reach, Visibility and Im… more »

On May 23, 2012, the University of California, San Francisco becomes the first UC campus to implement an open access policy. Under the proposed open access policy, UCSF faculty will make electronic versions of their scientific articles freely available… more »

Has anyone not had one of their Facebook friends post a link to a story about the UC San Diego study that concluded that eating chocolate makes you thin? I just did a Google News search using the phrase eating chocolate makes you thin and came up with a… more »