Science Open Access?: Screenshot of Science magazine references that are freely available text.
So is Science making some stuff open access?
This paper from Bruce Lahn's group argued that there is evidence for ongoing selection in the ASPM gene, variants of which are associated with abnormal spindle-like microcephaly. A paper today re-evaluates the data with more empirical sampling of the variation in the region and compares that to ENCODE regions. More can be said about the merits of the new data, but the point I want to make here is, the papers seem to be freely available. I can access them at home without a proxy or anything. I must be missing some key announcement about the availability of all Science content becoming open-access -- on second look apparently not everything is open-access, sure can't read about Graphite Polyhedral Crystals from home. So what gives? is this a case of if it's human it's all good but it if it's not human it's crap?
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Technical Comments are free
I checked the link "My Access Rights" and it says that I have access to the paid content and also to the free content of the site that includes:
* Science, Science Classic, STKE, SAGE KE Table of Contents of current issues and back issues
* Science, Science Classic, STKE, SAGE KE, abstracts and summaries
* Science Supporting Online Material
* Science Technical Comments
* ScienceCareers.org including Next Wave and GrantsNet
* ScienceNOW stories published within the past four weeks
* Searching
That paper is a technical comment so it looks like according to science that is free.
According to their access
According to their access options chart (http://www.sciencemag.org/subscriptions/access_chart.dtl), "Full text of research articles one year after publication back to 1997" is available for free to registered (via free registration) users. Both the ones about are more than a year old so perhaps that is what you are seeing? That's wierd that you would see the same thing though even when you are not logged in. I Actually never saw any mention of "free" full texts. I either could see the full-texts (on-campus with institution subscription), or could not see them (e.g. if i visited the site through a proxy). That's neat though that they do offer those articles for free :)
Keith
That paper is a technical
Interesting, I didn't notice the "My Access Rights" link, however it still doesn't make sense as the referred articles are reports and reviews. Maybe they have made a mistake on the permissions of this article ?
Sorry about the original
Sorry about the original post+image being a little screwed up, I guess the system for posting images in blogs needs a little tweaking.
As far as free the free access to this article and its referenced articles, I can read them all without logging in. I did a little digging for some kind of open access announcement, but nothing turned up via site search ?