Free Science, One Paper at a Time

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On Fathers Day three years ago, biologist Jonathan Eisen decided hed like to republish all his fathers papers. His father, Howard Eisen, a biologist and a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, had published 40-some-odd papers by the time that he died by suicide at age 45. That had been in Febuary 1987, while Jonathan, a sophomore at college, was on the verge of discovering his own love of biology. At the time, virtually all scientific papers were just on paper. Now, of course, everything happens online, and Jonathan, who in addition to researching and teaching also serves as an editor for the open-access, online-only journal PLoS Biology, knows this well. So three years ago, Jonathan decided to reclaim his fathers papers from print limbo and make them freely available online. He wanted to make them part of the scientific record. He also wanted, he says, to leave a more positive presence to ensure his father had a public legacy first and foremost as a scientist.

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Dobbs, D. (2011). Free Science, One Paper at a Time. Wired. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/free-science-one-paper-at-a-time-2/all/1

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