Derek Lowe, an Arkansan by birth, got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several major pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on drug discovery projects against schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, diabetes, osteoporosis and other diseases.
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The sponsors of the Research Works Act (Representatives Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Darrell Issa, R-California) have announced that they will not be bringing it forward. Elsevier's backtrack was indeed the sign.
2. Anonymous on February 29, 2012 3:25 PM writes...
I'm about to boycott Elsevier right now purely based on their stupidass advertisement window. You try to scroll to the bottom of an abstract and the window pops up at the bottom of the screen. When you scroll down to the now reduced abstract the window closes and shifts you back to the middle of the abstract. What moron tested that and thought it wouldn't get annoying for the users?
1. pete on February 28, 2012 6:20 PM writes...
Follow the money, indeed:
"One of the RWA’s major proponents was Elsevier, ...—which also happens to be one of Maloney's major campaign contributors."
Chalk one up for putting mega-sized scientific publishers on a weight lo$$ diet.
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I'm about to boycott Elsevier right now purely based on their stupidass advertisement window. You try to scroll to the bottom of an abstract and the window pops up at the bottom of the screen. When you scroll down to the now reduced abstract the window closes and shifts you back to the middle of the abstract. What moron tested that and thought it wouldn't get annoying for the users?
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