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Stick to Your Ribs: Interview with Paula Stephan — Economics, Science, and Doing Better

An interview from April 2012, which remains as relevant today in explaining the incentives driving much of the behavior in academic research centers and scientific and scholarly publishing.

The Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), Science, and the Public Good

If consumer web sites remain the source of most health information, there is little that FRPAA will do to improve the transmission of research to the public.

Information as Property

We need to shake ourselves from the metaphor of Intellectual Property and create a new way of viewing information.