Open Access Authoring @ Caltech

Open Access Authoring & Caltech to close up shop

2009-06-01T11:46:00.000-07:00

This blog, which has existed since 2005, will no longer be updated. The OA focus of Caltech Library Services has led us to replace it with an RSS feed from CaltechAUTHORS, our digital repository of Caltech-authored research some of which is Open Access. Visit us at http://authors.library.caltech.edu/ to keep up with CIT's publishing.

Dr. Stuart Shieber, Director of Harvard's Office of Scholarly Communication, addresses Caltech campus

2009-04-15T16:14:00.000-07:00

In February 2008, the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences unanimously approved a policy stating that faculty members grant to Harvard permission to make their articles freely available to the public. Harvard thereby became the first U.S. university to explicitly establish an open access policy for the publications of its faculty. As Director of the new Office of Scholarly Communication, Stuart Shieber is charged with administering the policy and other programs to provide the broadest possible access to the scholarly output of the university. Dr. Shieber came to Caltech on March 26^th to discuss the background to the Harvard faculty motion and its implementation, as well as other initiatives to foster change in the scholarly publishing system. His talk was videotaped by Caltech Digital Media Services and can be accessed through its catalog or through a direct link here.

Muno et al. demonstrate a correlation between SiO and X-rays in the Galactic Center

2009-02-12T10:39:00.000-08:00

M. A. Amo-Baladrón, J. Martín-Pintado, M. R. Morris, M. P. Muno and N. J. Rodríguez-Fernández. (2008) Correlation between SiO and X-ray emission in the Galactic Center. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 131: 012017. CaltechAUTHORS

Smolke lab explores RNAi programmable control of gene expression

2009-02-09T13:50:00.000-08:00

Chase L Beisel, Travis S Bayer, Kevin G Hoff, and Christina D Smolke. (2008) Model-guided design of ligand-regulated RNAi for programmable control of gene expression. Molecular Systems Biology, 4:224, 28 October 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

R. Preston McAfee named SPARC Innovator

2009-01-21T13:42:00.000-08:00

R. Preston McAfee, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics and Management, has been named the newest SPARC innovator for his pioneering contributions to the Open Educational Resources movement and passionate advocacy for Open Access. In 2006, McAfee was the first to publish a complete textbook, Introduction to Economic Analysis, and make it openly available online as well as in CaltechBOOK, one of the constituent repositories in Caltech CODA (Collection of Open Digital Archives).

SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.

Zhong and Sternberg map genetic interactions of A. suum to C. Elegans

2009-01-15T16:04:00.000-08:00

Cui-Qin Huang, Robin B. Gasser, Cinzia Cantacessi, Alasdair J. Nisbet, Weiwei Zhong, Paul W. Sternberg, Alex Loukas, Jason Mulvenna, Rui-Qing Lin, Ning Chen, and Xing-Quan Zhu (2008) Genomic-Bioinformatic Analysis of Transcripts Enriched in the Third-Stage Larva of the Parasitic Nematode Ascaris suum. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2(6):e246. CaltechAUTHORS

Sakura Schäfer-Nameki explores finite size effect in planar AdS/CFT

2008-12-11T20:46:00.000-08:00

Nikolay Gromov, Sakura Schäfer-Nameki and Pedro Vieira (2008) Efficient precision quantization in AdS/CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 12(2008)013. CaltechAUTHORS

Vijay Chickarmane models generation of stem cells from differentiated cells

2008-12-11T11:04:00.000-08:00

Vijay Chickarmane and Carsten Peterson (2008) A Computational Model for Understanding Stem Cell, Trophectoderm and Endoderm Lineage Determination. PLoS ONE, 3 (10):e3478, 22 October 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

MALN: Unique Caltech series on Africa now in CODA

2008-11-06T17:32:00.000-08:00

Munger African Library Notes is a unique series of monographs, published at Caltech in the 1970's and '80's under the editorship of Prof. Edwin S. Munger, Professor of Political Geography. The subjects range widely through politics, history, literature, and the arts. This valuable contribution to African studies, 73 issues, is now available in CaltechMALN.

Matthew Shum contributes thesis to CaltechAUTHORS

2008-11-06T16:58:00.000-08:00

Matthew Shum, welcomed in September 2008 as Caltech Professor of Economics, has contributed his Stanford PhD thesis, Three essays in empirical industrial organization, to CaltechAUTHORS.

Adam Wierman deposits PhD thesis; honored by INFORMS

2008-11-05T15:52:00.000-08:00

Adam Wierman, assistant professor of Computer Science, was recognized by INFORMS for his thesis in telecommunications operations research.

Adam Wierman (2007) Scheduling for today’s computer systems: bridging theory and practice. PhD thesis, Carnegie Mellon University. CaltechAUTHORS

Wennberg and Crounse synthesize N.A. TOOC

2008-11-05T11:39:00.000-08:00

C. L. Heald, A. H. Goldstein, J. D. Allan, A. C. Aiken, E. Apel, E. L. Atlas, A. K. Baker, T. S. Bates, A. J. Beyersdorf, D. R. Blake, T. Campos, H. Coe, J. D. Crounse, P. F. DeCarlo, J. A. de Gouw, E. J. Dunlea, F. M. Flocke, A. Fried, P. Goldan, R. J. Griffin, S. C. Herndon, J. S. Holloway, R. Holzinger, J. L. Jimenez, W. Junkermann, W. C. Kuster, A. C. Lewis, S. Meinardi, D. B. Millet, T. Onasch, A. Polidori, P. K. Quinn, D. D. Riemer, J. M. Roberts, D. Salcedo, B. Sive, A. L. Swanson, R. Talbot, C. Warneke, R. J. Weber, P. Weibring, P. O. Wennberg, D. R. Worsnop, A. E. Wittig, R. Zhang, J. Zheng, and W. Zheng (2008) Total observed organic carbon (TOOC) in the atmosphere: a synthesis of North American observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8 (7):2007-2025, 8 April 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

C. L. Heald, A. H. Goldstein, J. D. Allan, A. C. Aiken, E. Apel, E. L. Atlas, A. K. Baker, T. S. Bates, A. J. Beyersdorf, D. R. Blake, T. Campos, H. Coe, J. D. Crounse, P. F. DeCarlo, J. A. de Gouw, E. J. Dunlea, F. M. Flocke, A. Fried, P. Goldan, R. J. Griffin, S. C. Herndon, J. S. Holloway, R. Holzinger, J. L. Jimenez, W. Junkermann, W. C. Kuster, A. C. Lewis, S. Meinardi, D. B. Millet, T. Onasch, A. Polidori, P. K. Quinn, D. D. Riemer, J. M. Roberts, D. Salcedo, B. Sive, A. L. Swanson, R. Talbot, C. Warneke, R. J. Weber, P. Weibring, P. O. Wennberg, D. R. Worsnop, A. E. Wittig, R. Zhang, J. Zheng, and W. Zheng (2007) Total observed organic carbon (TOOC) in the atmosphere: a synthesis of North American observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7(6):17825-17871, 13 December 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

Bhattacharya models myofibril behavior

2008-11-04T09:36:00.000-08:00

Sefi Givli and Kaushik Bhattacharya (2008) A coarse-grained model of the myofibril: overall dynamics and the evolution of sarcomere non-uniformities. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. CaltechSOLIDS:2008.002

Hallem and Sternberg discover CO2 avoidance behavior in C. elegans

2008-11-03T13:49:00.000-08:00

Elissa A. Hallem and Paul W. Sternberg (2008) Acute carbon dioxide avoidance in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(23):8038-8043, 10 June 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

Seinfeld refines model of aerosol absorption effects

2008-11-03T13:40:00.000-08:00

P. Stier, J. H. Seinfeld, S. Kinne, and O. Boucher (2007) Aerosol absorption and radiative forcing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7(19):5237-5261, 10 October 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

P. Stier, J. H. Seinfeld, S. Kinne, and O. Boucher (2007) Aerosol absorption and radiative forcing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 7(3):7171-7233, 30 May 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

Klaus Pontoppidan uses high-angular resolution IR to study protoplanetary disk evolution

2008-10-29T23:52:00.000-07:00

Cornells Dullemond, Yaroslav Pavlyuchenkov, Daniel Apai and Klaus Pontoppidan (2008) Structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 131:012018. CaltechAUTHORS

Shimojo lab finds role for sleep in motor learning

2008-10-29T10:36:00.000-07:00

Bhavin R. Sheth, Davit Janvelyan, and Murtuza Khan (2008) Practice Makes Imperfect: Restorative Effects of Sleep on Motor Learning. PLoS ONE, 3(9):e3190, 12 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Alex Lin develops technique for cardiac MRI without breath-holding

2008-10-28T09:13:00.000-07:00

Yuan Le, Peter Kellman, Eric E. Bennett, Alex Lin, Christophe Chefd'Hotel, Christine H. Lorenz and Han Wen (2008) 1082 Free-breathing single-shot DENSE myocardial strain imaging using deformable registration. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 10 (Supplement 1):A207. CaltechAUTHORS

Elisabeth Wang develops shRNA library for RNAi

2008-10-24T08:25:00.000-07:00

Yongping Wang, Yun E. Wang, M. Grazia Cotticelli, and Robert B. Wilson (2008) A Random shRNA-Encoding Library for Phenotypic Selection and Hit-Optimization. PLoS ONE, 3(9):e3171, 9 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Wongpiromsarn, Murray, and Lamperski verify ALICE's control system

2008-10-23T08:42:00.000-07:00

Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn, Sayan Mitra, Richard M. Murray, and Andrew Lamperski (2008) Periodically Controlled Hybrid Systems: Verifying A Controller for An Autonomous Vehicle. Control and Dynamical Systems Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechCDSTR:2008.003]

Sally Ng et al. study isoprene/NO3 contribution to SOA

2008-10-21T11:02:00.000-07:00

N. L. Ng, A. J. Kwan, J. D. Surratt, A. W. H. Chan, P. S. Chhabra, A. Sorooshian, H. O. T. Pye, J. D. Crounse, P. O. Wennberg, R. C. Flagan, and J. H. Seinfeld (2008) Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from reaction of isoprene with nitrate radicals (NO3). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 8(14):4117-4140, 1 August 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

N. L. Ng, A. J. Kwan, J. D. Surratt, A. W. H. Chan, P. S. Chhabra, A. Sorooshian, H. O. T. Pye, J. D. Crounse, P. O. Wennberg, R. C. Flagan, and J. H. Seinfeld (2008) Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from reaction of isoprene with nitrate radicals (NO3). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 8(1):3163-3226, 15 February 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

© Author(s) 2008. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Paul Sternberg -- first study of RIO kinases in parasites

2008-10-20T08:51:00.000-07:00

Min Hu, Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc, Paul W Sternberg and Robin B Gasser (2008) Tv-RIO1 – an atypical protein kinase from the parasitic nematode Trichostrongylus vitrinus. Parasites and Vectors, 1(34), 22 September 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

Fraser Moss investigates γ7 interactions with mRNA

2008-10-19T22:24:00.000-07:00

Laurent Ferron, Anthony Davies, Karen M. Page, David J. Cox, Jerôme Leroy, Dominic Waithe, Adrian J. Butcher, Priya Sellaturay, Steven Bolsover, Wendy S. Pratt, Fraser J. Moss, and Annette C. Dolphin (2008) The Stargazin-Related Protein γ7 Interacts with the mRNA-Binding Protein Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein A2 and Regulates the Stability of Specific mRNAs, Including CaV2.2. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(42):10604-10617, 15 October 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

This article is freely available online through the Journal of Neuroscience Open Choice option.

Steffen Brinckmann offers a crack initiation model with roughness and dislocation plasticity

2008-10-16T10:54:00.000-07:00

Steffen Brinckmann and Erik Van der Giessen (2007) A fatigue crack initiation model incorporating discrete dislocation plasticity and surface roughness. International Journal of Fracture, 148(2):155-167. CaltechAUTHORS

© Springer Science+Business Media 2007. Distributed under a Springer Open Choice License (compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution Licence).

Przybylowski and Silva analyze miniature ion thrusters

2008-10-16T09:00:00.000-07:00

Richard Wirz, Regina Sullivan, Johanna Przybylowski, and Mike Silva (2008) Hollow Cathode and Low-Thrust Extraction Grid Analysis for a Miniature Ion Thruster. International Journal of Plasma Science and Engineering, 2008(Q2):693825, 23 June 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

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