The Tree of Life: Does #AAAS care about #Ebola anymore? Nope. And probably never did. #ClosedAccess
abernard102@gmail.com 2015-11-04
Summary:
"In October I wrote a blog post criticizing AAAS (and ASM) for trying to give themselves a pat on the back for making a few papers about Ebola freely available: The Tree of Life: No #AAAS and ASM you do not deserve good PR for freeing up a few papers on Ebola. The whole thing was a publicity stunt. And AAAS in particular tried to play up how they were doing this for the benefit of humanity. So today I decided to check back and look into whether AAAS was making new papers on Ebola freely available. So I searched for the word Ebola in the title or Abstract ... Surely AAAS must still care enough about Ebola to make new papers freely available right? Nope. $20 to rent for a day ..."