Open Access, Open Business, Closed Fairness!

Commentary: open access, open business, closed fairness!

A strong trend to move from print to online publication is largely perceived in scientific and nonscientific fields. A growing number of publishers increasingly opt for online publication as an option or a compulsory alternative. From readers' perspective, this is a highly appreciated facility, but from the author's, things are different mainly because of excessive article processing charges (A...

Open access and closed options

Let’s start with some news. We recently announced that EMBO, together with Nature Publishing Group, will launch next year an open-access, author-pays journal called Molecular Systems Biology. Two reasons guided our decision: we believe that journals publishing data-intense papers—such as those in systems biology— should be open access so that the information can be shared and mined by the scien...

Open access journals: open for rich, closed for poor.

Anesthesia in Cardiac Surgery (Open-Closed Heart)

In this paper the duties of an anesthesiologist and his right of i=;electing patient is discussed. La,ter, we di:=:cuss the <::mergencies cf heart surgery, pre up visit and alsc few dcails of pre up medication cf thei,e pati<mts. We also touch on the stages of anesthPsia and point to our preference for the use cf artery and vein for arterial and venous cannulation. In this paper we discuss in b...

Open. Closed. Open

As a window into the subject, we recount some of the history (and geography) of two mature, challenging, partially open, partially closed problems in the theory of rewriting (numbers 13 and 21 from the original RTA List of Open Problems). One problem deals with (criteria for left-linear) confluence and the other with termination (of one linear or string rule), the two paradigmatic properties of...