Got to run but thought people might be interested in this story. See the scoop at Scientific American. Will post more later. Open access publisher BioMed Central sold to Springer: Scientific American Blog
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I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis
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So, no doubt PLoS is hoping to be purchased by Elsevier? (ducks to avoid thrown objects by JE).
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funny – I was going to write that up as fake science news
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nah – elsevier is so last century – we’re holding out to sell to google
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