Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Alex L. Sessions, assistant professor of geobiology, is a referee for Biogeosciences Discussions, an Open Access journal sponsored by the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Michael R. Hoffmann, James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science and Dean of Graduate Studies, is a member of the editorial board of the Open Access journal International Journal of Photoenergy. IJP converted from a subscription-based to an Open Access model on 22 February 2006.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Fiona Cowie is writing the entry on Linguistic Innatism for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Friday, February 17, 2006

Yoh-suke Mukouyama, Benjamin Deneen, Agnès Lukaszewicz, Bennett G. Novitch, Hynek Wichterle, Thomas M. Jessell, and David J. Anderson (2006) Olig2+ neuroepithelial motoneuron progenitors are not multipotent stem cells in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103(5):1551-1556 (31 January 2006). CaltechAUTHORS

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

The first issue of the new Open Access journal, Theoretical Economics will not officially be published until March 2006, as previously noted. A sneak preview of accepted articles, in working paper format, reveals an inaugural issue article from Federico Echenique.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Gene Ontology Consortium (2006) The Gene Ontology (GO) project in 2006. Nucleic Acids Research, 34(Database Issue): D322-D326. CaltechAUTHORS

Caltech authors: Carol A. Bastiani, Ranjana Kishore, Erich M. Schwarz, Paul Sternberg, Kimberly Van Auken (WormBase).

Nicolas Le Novère, Benjamin Bornstein, Alexander Broicher, Mélanie Courtot, Marco Donizelli, Harish Dharuri, Lu Li, Herbert Sauro, Maria Schilstra, Bruce Shapiro, Jacky L. Snoep and Michael Hucka (2006) BioModels Database: a free, centralized database of curated, published, quantitative kinetic models of biochemical and cellular systems. Nucleic Acids Research, 34 (Database Issue). D689-D691. CaltechAUTHORS

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Chris Adami, Caltech Faculty Associate and Lecturer in Computation and Neural Systems, and Professor at the Keck Graduate Institute, is on the editorial board for Systems Biology, Computational Biology, and Evolutionary Biology, of BioMed Central's new open access journal, Biology Direct.

Monday, February 06, 2006

R. Preston McAfee, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management, added version 1.5 of his Open Source economics textbook, Introduction to Economic Analysis, to CaltechBOOK today. McAfee chose to publish the book with a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial-ShareAlike License. Downloading the PDF is free and a print-on-demand option is already available.