# Presentation: 432845

## STIP Meeting: Welcome to LBNL

**COMPUTING**
**SCIENCES**

**STIP Meeting: Welcome to LBNL**
- Jane Tierney, LBNL Library Head
***April 20, 2005***

## LBNL

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-  Leader in science and engineering research for more than 70 years
-  Located on a 200 acre site in the hills above the University of California's Berkeley campus
-  Berkeley Lab is the oldest of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratories.
-  Operating with an annual budget of more than $500 million (FY2004)
-  Staff of about 3,800 employees, including more than 500 students.

**Notes:**
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been a leader in science and engineering research for more than 70 years. Located on a 200 acre site in the hills above the University of California's Berkeley campus, adjacent to the San Francisco Bay, Berkeley Lab holds the distinction of being the oldest of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratories. The Lab is managed by the University of California, operating with an annual budget of more than $500 million (FY2004) and a staff of about 3,800 employees, including more than 500 students.
Berkeley Lab conducts Details on Berkeley Lab’s divisions and user facilities can be viewed here.
The Lab was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cyclotron, a circular particle accelerator that opened the door to high-energy physics. It was Lawrence’s belief that scientific research is best done through teams of individuals with different fields of expertise, working together. His teamwork concept is a Berkeley Lab legacy that has yielded rich dividends in basic knowledge and applied technology, and a profusion of awards, including nine Nobel Prizes — five in physics and four in chemistry. A history of Lawrence and his laboratory can be viewed here. The story of Berkeley Lab’s Nobel Laureates can be viewed here.

## Unclassified Research

- Unclassified research, wide range of scientific disciplines with key efforts in fundamental studies of the universe;
-  quantitative biology; nanoscience; new energy systems and environmental solutions; and the use of integrated computing as a tool for discovery. It is organized into 17 scientific divisions and hosts four DOE national user facilities.
-  Home to 9 Nobel Laureates, five in physics and   four in chemistry

## Free Access in Publishing

**Harold Varmus, UCSF and Michael Eisen, LBNL, UCB, founders of PLoS**
**www.plos.org**
**“****Led in part by Nobel laureate Harold Varmus and charismatic gene-chip whiz kid Michael Eisen [ of LBNL ], PloS's mission is to make scientific knowledge a public good.**

## Public Library of Science

- “The group traces its immediate history to Varmus's project PubMed Central, a service associated with the aforementioned PubMed, which was supposed to make the full text of articles available to anyone who wanted them. Unfortunately, the scientific publishing business -- exemplified by corporate giants like Elsevier, which puts out thousands of periodicals and books -- didn't exactly embrace the idea of making its copyrighted materials available for free.
- To highlight the growing antagonisms between scientists and many of the journals that publish them, a coalition of researchers circulated a petition among their colleagues in 2000 calling for journals to make their contents publicly accessible. More than 30,000 scientists from all over the world signed it.”
- Science for Everybody
- By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. Posted June 16, 2003.

## PLoS.org

- Alternate publishing business model:
- Scientists pay once, up front: $1500. for article submissions.
- Covers peer review costs for accepted and non-accepted articles
- All access after publication is free, online.
- Print subscriptions are fee based to cover costs
- Grant used to start efforts
- No reprint restrictions or fees, distribute full article freely
- Top named scientists as editors and reviewers
- Synchronous with OSTI efforts, no competition, cooperation to make full article information freely available to all.

## How does this help us?

- No constraints to full distribution or submission to OSTI
- No waiting period after publication
- No copyright confusion
- Full text available online without fees
- Easier tracking of scientists publications
- No competition for information

## PLoS.org