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Harvard may be the world’s wealthiest university, but fees for its academic journal subscriptions have gotten so steep - some as much as $40,000 a year - that an advisory council is encouraging faculty to submit their work to “open access’’ online journals available for free. The council also asked Harvard faculty to consider resigning from the editorial boards of high-priced subscription ...  

The Immunology and Medicine Sciences are two new key health categories covered by the Sciences Social Network ScienceIndex.com. The users of the website monitor over 300 scientific journals and submit the most significant scientific results of these journals for inclusion in these two categories. ScienceIndex.com was established in 1998 to index the very latest news, headlines, references and ...  

Symantec has just issued its Internet Security Threat Report, summarizing the threats, hacks, and stats of the last year in online security. Dumb mass threats like spam are down, but smart ones are up, and not necessarily from where you'd expect.  

In the fall of 2010, Ferric C. Fang made an unsettling discovery. Fang, editor-in-chief of the journal Infection and Immunity, found that one of his authors had doctored several papers.