Wednesday, April 14, 2004

More on Open Access Research Journals

A learned reader has written to draw our attention to BioMed Central -- home to over 100 open access journals in the fields of biology and medicine. If you didn't know about this, drop what you're doing and take a look.
Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.