Blocked Access Bummer #1

I have decided to start posting when I want to read an article at home but cannot due to lack of access (even though I might have it at work).  Today’s bummer is I wanted to read an article by Joel Sachs on “Resolving the first steps to multicellularity” but I could not get it because I do not have access to Trends in Ecology and Evolution at home.  Bummer.  Looks like it could be good. 

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of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
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Author: Jonathan Eisen

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

9 thoughts on “Blocked Access Bummer #1”

  2. thanks … teaching a class today where I want to talk about the evolution of multicellularity … and if anyone else out there has some good OA material on this topic let me know … busy with kids this AM so don’t have much time to look around

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  4. Blocked Access Bummer is a great idea. It so frustrating trying to get papers. I work at a research institute, not a university, and even they don’t have access to much of what I need.

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  7. JohnWell, in theory I might be able to set up these proxies. But in practice, I was using a back up computer on which it had never been set up. And when I have tried to set this up on my iPhone it did not seem to work and I use my iPhone a lot to surf the web at home

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  9. Kevin It was a review paper so it is not government funded research per se. But it was government funded. I am generally most concerned about research being OA. However, the more reviews that are OA the better too.

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