Complexity Digest 2001.23 - 18.01

04-Jun-2001

Honeybee Dances Communicate Distances Measured By Optic Flow, Nature Bookmark and Share

"We think of the publishers as being like a midwife," [Michael Eisen] says. "They are paid for their role, and at the end of the day, they give the baby back to the parents." (…)

PubMed Central asks journals to contribute their articles voluntarily as soon as possible after publication-at most after a year-giving the journals time to offer exclusive access to make a profit (studies have shown that the demand for research papers decreases sharply after only a few months).