By now, most of the world has read about the church shooting in Maryville, IL where a man opened fire on Rev. Fred Winters at the First Baptist Church. I caught wind of the news just after our morning services on Sunday (thanks to Twitter) and we paused to pray about the situation and those involved...

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Ivy Anderson, California Digital Library, UCOP, wrote: Stevan, I wanted to post this comment to your OA blog, but the blog’s comment function doesn’t display properly in my browser (whether Firefox or IE). Ivy, Apologies. Now fixed, and comments enabled.  Here is ...

Unfortunately, far too much of what is stated in "coglanglab's" well-meaning blog posting about Conyers' Bill H.R. 801 is simply incorrect, starting with its title:" Congress Considers Killing Open-Access Journals" No, the Conyers Bill H.R. 801 is not considering killing open-access journals; it is ...

I just read an article this morning that identified 5 Christ-figures in some popular Fantasy/Science-Fiction movies. Read more here. The article lists Christ-figures in the following movies: Superman - Superman movies, particularly Superman Returns Ellen Ripley - Alien 3 Robocop - Robocop Neo - The ...

SUMMARY: What France -- exactly like every other country -- needs is both funder and institutional Open Access (OA) mandates, requiring the self-archiving of all refereed research output immediately upon acceptance for publication, and all converging on single-locus deposit in the researcher's own I...

The publisher anti-Open-Access lobby is trying to use a time when the economy is down and the head of NIH is out to slip through a Bill that would undo one of the most positive things Congress has done for science: the NIH Public Access Act, which requires NIH-funded research to be made freely acces...

Ted Dekker is famous for being an author of “Christian Fiction” - fictional novels with faith-based ideas. This book is far from fiction. I picked up “The Slumber of Christianity” simply because it had Dekker’s name on it. I’m a fan of his and was curious whether ...

Tonight we had our ARMY 6:12 Christmas Party. For a game tonight we did an old-school activity - we did a MADLIB! You remember - the “edit some nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. in the story” activity. We re-wrote the ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas poem and here’s what we came...

Stories of personal testimony have always been an incredible thing to behold for me. This site brings some great stories of Jesus at work to life. Enjoy. www.iamsecond.com...

SUMMARY: The reason the much stronger author licensing mandate has a far higher consensus/compliance hurdle to surmount is that it raises the problem of authors' free choice of journals and author risk of journal non-acceptance.     In contrast, the weaker author deposit mandate ...