A few of the many articles in the literature discussing the evolution of science policy and the changing nature of scientific inquiry.

(Note: this page hasn't been kept up to date to reflect all the articles in the iterations knowledge base. Contact Jeff if you're interested in more recent articles on this topic.)

Adam, David and Jonathan Knight, Publish, and Be Dammed ..., Nature, October 25, 2002, pg. 772.

Birnbaum, Howard K., A Personal Reflection on University Research Funding, Physics Today, March 2002, pg. 49.

Blanpied, W. A., Inventing US Science Policy, Physics Today, February 1998, pg. 34.

Blumenstyk, Goldie, New Database Seeks to Illuminate Researchers' Ties to Industry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 17, 2001.

Brainard, Jeffrey, The Waining Influence of Scientists on National Policy, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 23, 2001.

Branscomb, L. M., From Technology Politics to Technology Policy, Issues in Science and Technology, Spring, 41-48, 1997.

Bush, V., Science - The Endless Frontier: A Report to the President on a Program for Postwar Scientific Research, July 1945.

Byerly, R., Jr., and R. A. Pielke, Jr., The Changing Ecology of United States Science, Science, 269, 1531-1532, 1995.

Cohen, J., Scientist Who Fund Themselves, Science, 279, 178-181, 1998.

Coombs, Rod and Luke Georghiou, A New "Industrial Ecology", Science, 471, April 19, 2002.

Dickson, D., Weaving a Social Web, The Internet promises to revolutionize public engagement with science and technology, Nature, 414, 587, December 6, 2001.

Feder, T., Astronomers Envision Linking World Data Archives, Physics Today, 20, February 2002.

Florida, Richard, The Role of the University: Leveraging Talent, Not Technology, Issues in Science and Technology, Summer, 1999.

Foster, I., The Grid: A New Infrastructure for 21st Century Science, 42, Physics Today, February 2002.

Foster, K. R., P. Vecchia, and M. H. Repacholi, Science and the Precautionary Principle, Science, 288, 979-981, 2000.

Gibbons, Michael, Science's New Social Contract With Society, Nature, 402, C81-C84, December 2, 1999.

Glanz, James, The Web as Dictator of Scientific Fashion, The New York Times, June 19, 2001.

Gorman, James, Naturalists Share Their Findings Online, The New York Times, December 13, 2001.

Greenberg, Daniel S., Science, Money, and Politics; Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion, University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Guterman, Lila, Learning to Swim in the Rising Tide of Scientific Data, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 29, 2001.

Harte, John, Toward a Synthesis of the Newtonian and Darwinian World Views, Physics Today, October 2002, pg. 29.

Holtz, Robert Lee, Scientists Sharing Fewer Discoveries, The Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2002.

Jasanoff, S., et al., Conversations with the Community: AAAS at the Millennium, Science, 278, 2066-2067, 1997.

Kennedy, Donald, Industry and Academia in Transition, Science, November 21, 2003.

Langer, J., Physicists in the New Era of Electronic Publishing, Physics Today, August, 35-38, 2000.

Latour, B., From the World of Science to the World of Research, Science, 208-209, April 10, 1998.

Lubchenco, J., Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Social Contract for Science, Science, 279, 491-497, 1998.

Macilwain, C., The Rise of the Bean Counters, Nature, 415, pg. 466, January 31, 2002.

McSweegan, E., Address to the AAAS (from the year 2050), Science, 286, 2462-2464, 1999.

Pielke, R. A., Jr., and R. Byerly, Jr., Beyond Basic and Applied, Physics Today, February, 42-46, 1998.

Pielke, Roger A., Jr., Policy, Politics and Perspective, Nature, pg. 367, March 28, 2002.

Ritter, Stephen K., Publication Ethics: Rights and Wrongs, C&E News, November 12, 2001, pg 24.

Schmitt, R. W., Public Support of Science: Searching for Harmony, Physics Today, January, 29-33, 1994.

Sclove, R. E., Town Meetings on Technology, Technology Review, July, 1996.

Sclove, R. E., Better Approaches to Science Policy, Science, 279, 1283, 1998.

Smith, P. M., and M. McGeary, Don't Look Back: Science Funding for the Future, Issues in Science and Technology, Spring, 33-40, 1997.

Vaknin, Sam, Copyright and Scholarship, Part 1, Part 2, United Press International, February 19, 2002.

Weston, Wil, Access to Scientific Literature, Nature, November 7, 2002, pg. 19.

Wolpert, Ann J., The Future of Electronic Data, Nature, November 7, 2002, pg. 17.

Young, Jeffrey R., Ever So Slowly, Colleges Start to Count Work with Technology in Tenure Decisions, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 22, 2002.

Various Web Resources

A European Science and Society initiative as part of establishing the European Research Area, http://www.cordis.lu/rtd2002/science-society/home.htm.

Gaining Independence, A Manual for Planning the Launch of a Nonprofit Electronic Publishing Venture, http://www.arl.org/sparc/GI/

MERLOT, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, http://www.merlot.org

Re-envisioning the Ph.D., Coming together to re-envision the Ph.D. to meet the societal needs of the 21st Century, http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision.

Organizations looking at and promoting the evolution of science policy:

Center for Science, Policy, & Outcomes

The Center for Democracy and Technology

The Foresight Institute

The Loka Institute

The Natural Step

The World Citizen Foundation

Disclaimer: A listing on this page does not imply that iterations agrees with the positions taken by the respective organization, only that the organization is part of the ongoing conversation.