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( canonical science report 20082

Index and latest reports. Posterior year reports.

( science in the 21st century: social, political, and economic issues

( kind of report

Perspective.

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( abstract

This report presents a nonidealized vision of 21st century science. It handles some social, political, and economic problems that affect the heart of scientific endeavour and are carrying important consequences for scientists and the rest of society.

The problems analyzed are the current tendency to limit the size of scholarly communications, the funding of research, the rates and page charges of journals, the wars for the intellectual property of the data and results of research, and the replacement of impartial reviewing by anonymous censorship. The scope includes an economic analysis of PLoS' finances, the wars APS versus Wikipedia and ACS versus NIH, and a list of thirty four Nobel Laureates whose awarded work was rejected by peer review.

Several suggestions from Harry Morrow Brown, Lee Smolin, Linda Cooper, and the present author for solving the problems are included in the report. The work finishes with a brief section on the reasons to be optimists about the future of science.

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( draft version

2008 Oct 10.

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( first version

2008 Nov 13.

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( last version

2008 Nov 13, 12:14 UTC.

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( authorship

Juan R. González-Álvarez.

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( citation of last version

Science in the 21st century: social, political, and economic issues 2008: Can. Sci. Rep. 20082v1. González-Álvarez, Juan R.

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( references

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Physicists slam publishers over Wikipedia ban issue 2008: New Scientist magazine 2647, 6. Author not available.
Chemists Want NIH to Curtail Database 2005: Science 308(5723), 774. Kaiser, Jocelyn.
Chemistry society goes head to head with NIH in fight over public database 2005: Nature 435, 718–719. Marris, Emma.
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Canonical science: its history, goals, and future 2008: Can. Sci. Rep. 20083v1. González-Álvarez, Juan R.

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