Ziel ist und war es Studienarbeiten für alle im Internet zugänglich zu machen. Darüber hinaus wurde aber auch eine Möglich geschaffen für Studierende, Jungforscher_innen und allen anderen Interessierte Publikationserfahrung zu sammeln.

Die Grundsätze von Textfeld sind denkbar einfach und folgen dem Gedanken des Open Access:

Offenheit: Die Website sollte möglichst vielen das Veröffentlichen ermöglichen. Auch studentische Abschlussarbeiten, die sonst keine Publizität finden würden, bekommen eine Chance.

Einfachheit: Veröffentlichen im Internet soll nicht nur jenen mit speziellen Fachkenntnissen vorbehalten sein. Auch die technischen Laien sollen Zugang zu Informationstechnologien haben.

Freier Zugang: Der Erwerb von Wissen sollte nicht von den finanziellen Mitteln abhängig sein. Der kostenlose Zugriff auf die Informationen soll für alle Benutzer und Benutzerinnen der Website gewährleistet sein. (Quelle: textfeld.ac.at)

Ein Beispiel über die Wirksamkeit des Open Access für Studierende exemplarisch an einer Arbeit:

Auf diese Weise erhält eine Arbeit z.B. über den “die demokratischen Potentiale von Wegblogs” mit momentan fast 300 Downloads doch eine beachtliche Aufmerksamkeit, die ihr ohne Textfeld wohl nicht zuteil geworden wäre. (Quelle: Infobib)

textfeld.ac.at | WISSEN:VERNETZEN:PUBLIZIEREN via kwout

Erinnerst sei an dieser Stelle an die Hausarbeitensammlung in den Gender Studies an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Ein Projekt, dass es im Gegensatz zu Textfeld nur in die Weiten der Internet-Bedeutungslosigkeit geschafft hat.

After Verizon won the Block C portion in the recent 700MHz wireless spectrum auction by the FCC, Google noticed that Verizon seemed to be ignoring the open access rules with the spectrum and doing things a bit differently than Google believed they should, resulting in Google filing a complaint with the FCC.

Verizon has responded, saying that they "understood the FCC's rules for using that spectrum...of course we'll abide by those rules."

Verizon also responded to Google's complaint saying that "Google's filing has no legal basis...It's really no surprise that despite not winning spectrum, they continue to try to change the rules and further their own business interests through the regulatory process."

[Via Ars Technica]

In a petition filed by Google with the FCC, Google alleges that Verizon is ignoring the "plain meaning of the [open access] rule" by  saying that it will allow one type of access for users who use Verizon-approved devices, and a different type of access by those using other, third-party devices.

"Verizon's position would completely reverse the meaning of the rule such that the open access condition would apply to none of Verizon's customers, and thereby render the condition a nullity."

Google is asking that the FCC block Verizon's bid unless they agree to comply iwth the previously decided open access rules.

If you're interested in checking out the full complain you can see it here.

No response yet from Verizon.

[Via Engadget]

Also wenn Ihr Ideen habt, was da alles gesagt werden sollte, dann macht euch auf und schaut auf Kurs:Urheberrecht und beteiligt euch ein wenig.

Unter http://de.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hauptseite kann man sich eintragen, "mitspielen" und bis zum 10.4.2008 Kommentare und Verbesserungen abgeben.

Weitere Infos gibt es unter: Gesichtete Versionen und Geprüfte Versionen

Etwas ausführlicher bei Wikipedistik.

Und gerade bemerkt, bei Golem wird es auch erwähnt.

Für München selbst ist dies eine sehr wichtige Sache, da es ja schon die Umstellung auf GNU/LINUX gab und damit ODF zu dem dort wichtigen Format machte.

Quelle: Golem

Zitat:

"...if you were giving one away to a friend who had never read anything of mine, what would it be? Where would you want them to start?

Click below on the cover of the book you'd like to see out there, online, for free."

Als Grund gibt er den 7. Geburtstag seines Blogs an. (neben dem Eintrag ist noch ein schönes Bild von Death und Dream mit Hütchen, Kuchen und Luftballon :)

Im Moment führt American Gods und ich hoffe auf einen baldigen 8. Geburtstag und 9. Geburtstag und ....

Näheres zum Treffen.

Interviewpartner ist ein aktiver Wikipedianer und politischer Aktivist.

Tja, der Fussball ist wichtiger im deutschen TV, deswegen ist es verschoben. (siehe auch den 3. Kommentar)

Einzige Voraussetzung um dies zu verwenden, ist ein eigenes Benutzerkonto bei der Wikipedia, da man dies selbst einschalten muss. Nachdem man angemeldet ist einfach auf diese Seite gehen und includePage('Benutzer:Magnus_Manske/osm.js'); per Copy&Paste einfügen.

Nach dem Speichern kann man in jedem Artikel, in dem Geokoordinaten angegeben sind (z.B. München) in der oberen rechten Ecke einen Link mit der Bezeichnung (OSM) finden. Dieser Aktiviert die Karte.

Auf der Karte selbst werden blaue Fahnen angezeigt, die verlinkte Wikipediaartikel anzeigen, welche ebenfalls eine Karte anzeigen können.

Ich hoffe, dass diese Funktion bald fester Bestandteil der Wikipedia wird, eventuell mit dauerhaft eingeblendeten Karten sogar?

One stalwart librarian thought he had caught a typo, but, no, it is "wordperhect," with an "H" like in "helpful," something every librarian tries to be.

Something else a lot of librarians try to be is up-on-the-latest-technology. We also try to be thrifty because we aren't working in the highest-paid profession. So when we find ourselves with the cash to buy a new laptop, the thought of paying out half the price of the device for the privilege of being able to type well on it sends us out looking for alternatives, like wordperhect, perhaps.

I bought myself a new laptop in December and was looking forward to making a presentation at ALA Midwinter. The laptop doesn't come with Microsoft Office and I wanted to avoid paying hundreds to get the package that includes PowerPoint. So, I decided, it's now or never, time to look into cheaper or free alternatives. The dilemma here is should I go with an online host or download a product?

The argument for the download option is that you'll have the product on your machine, it will run faster, and you'll save the work you do on your own computer. A big contender in the download world is Openoffice.org. Openoffice was developed by Sun and meant to compete with Microsoft. The initial drawback of using it seemed to be that it didn't offer as many bells and whistles as PowerPoint. I missed PowerPoint's variety of slide templates, but it occurred to me that most of my slides are screen shots so I didn't really need a colorful template for my presentation. An added feature of Openoffice is that although its default save mode has some odd file extension, you can save as a ppt (PowerPoint). This would be great if you lose your laptop on the way to a conference (not such a great thing) and have to run your flashdrive off a computer running PowerPoint (your small consolation).

The two online contenders that I looked at were Google
Docs (which offers a presentation mode) and Zoho. Show, from Zoho, is extremely attractive and very colorful. The site is even kind of Googly looking (white, clean space punctuated by bits of bright color). It has a multitude of templates and seemed like a fun way to go. The big problem with Zoho is that the export feature doesn't seem to work (no back up copy of your work) as promised and you will be left on edge wondering at your conference if you will be able to get into your own work. Google Presentation, which is built on Sun's Openoffice, is pretty bland but has a decently functioning import feature.

A problem with the online tools is that their performance while you create a document is as jumpy as any other online input activity you might encounter. The feature that is most praised in the online tools is the ease they offer for doing collaborative work. A very cool feature of the online tools is that chat can run in a column to the side of the presentation. Imagine. While you are presenting, the audience can pass their comments up to you in real time. You might argue that it is all a very big distraction, but I suppose a positive way to go with this is to say, no more "sage on the stage in the classroom, no more sage on the stage at a conference."

What I settled on in preparing for Midwinter is downloading Openoffice, sending them a check for what I could afford, creating my presentation in Impress (their PowerPoint equivalent) saving the work as a ppt file and almost flawlessly (the text on one slide was a little out of order) importing it to Google. I now have a copy of the file on my own computer, on a flashdrive saved in Openoffice format and as a PowerPoint, and as a url in Google. I think I'm all set to go, but if I start making changes, I'll run into that problem of making the changes in all of the files.

Google Presentations will not let you back up a file on your own computer (scary, right?). When you opt to email the file, all you are doing is emailing the URL. This is, though, a useful feature pre-conference. People can come into your session with your page on their laptops ready to chat. Google also only lets you save 10 MB in presentations. If you do a lot of presentations and they are long, be prepared to delete post-conference if you are running through Google for the sake of the chat feature. You can use another online host for archiving and referral purposes. Slideshare is a freebie. Maximum file size allowed is 30MB. That should work well for image-heavy shows.

Happy open access new year to everyone!

Beth

Ein paar obligatorische Links:

• Heise: Englischsprachige Wikipedia mit mehr als zwei Millionen Artikeln
• ZDF: "Die entscheidende Wissens-Quelle" Interview mit Trendforscher Wippermann über Wikipedia
• ZDF: Wikipedia umwirbt Wissenschaftler-Noch überwiegt die Skepsis

Vor genau einem Jahr, am 10. September 2007, gründete sich in der Berliner c-Base die Piratenpartei Deutschland (PIRATEN). Zu diesem Anlass findet am 22. September 2007 am gleichen Ort eine öffentliche Geburtstagsfeier statt, zu der Interessenten, Kritiker und Presse herzlich eingeladen sind.

Seit ihrem Bestehen wuchs die Mitgliederzahl von anfangs 50 Gründungsmitglieder auf nunmehr 500 aktive Piraten an. Das Internet - zu Beginn das einzige Medium der Partei - wurde durch regionale und überregionale Treffen ergänzt. In Bayern, Berlin, Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Niedersachsen gründeten sich dafür bereits die ersten Landesverbände.

In der Öffentlichkeit haben sich die PIRATEN durch verschiedene Aktionen einen Namen gemacht. Eine Protestaktion gegen das von der Regierung geplante Verbot von „Killerspielen" sollte die Absurdität dieses Vorhabens demonstrieren. Dazu wurde ein „Killer-Schach" inszeniert, in welchem Menschen als Schachfiguren fungierten. Beim unvermeidlichen Schlagen der Figuren wurden diese dann mit reichlich Kunstblut besudelt. Die Aufmerksamkeit der Öffentlichkeit wurde auch durch den Versand eines trojanischen Pferdes an Günther Beckstein geweckt. Das aus Computerbauteilen zusammen gesetzte Gebilde sollte im Zuge der Diskussionen um den Bundestrojaner dem bayerischen Innenminister überreicht werden. Leider wurde die Übergabe durch den Einsatz von Polizeikräften vereitelt.

Auf internationaler Ebene hat sich die Piratenbewegung mit PP International eine Dachorganisation gegeben. Piratenparteien aus acht verschiedenen Ländern erarbeiteten auf der ersten internationalen Piratenkonferenz in Wien die gemeinsame Strategie für die Europaparlamentswahl in 2009.

Das politische Konzept der PIRATEN wird zum ersten Mal bei den kommenden Landtagswahlen in Hessen, Niedersachsen und Bayern auf die Probe gestellt. Am 21. Oktober 2007 wird der Landesverband Hamburg gegründet um ebenfalls an den Wahlen teilzunehmen. Mit der Kandidatur für den Münchener Stadtrat wird bereits die erste kommunale Wahl ausgefochten.

Als europäische Wahlkampfouvertüre wird zum Jahreswechsel die Website der europäischen Piratenparteien für die gemeinsame Kandidatur zur Europaparlamentswahl 2009 eröffnet. Zeitgleich findet in Berlin die zweite internationale Piratenkonferenz statt. Das Ziel der Piratenparteien ist die Gründung einer eigenen Fraktion im Europaparlament.

Quelle: Piratenpartei Deutschland

Zusammenfassung (vereinfacht), um was es bei OA überhaupt geht:

• Es sollen alle wissenschaftlichen Materialien und Dokumente allen Menschen kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt werden.

Etwas Länger wird es bei der Wikipedia erklärt.

Danke an Golem für den Link

But, yet again, I'd never heard of it before Re:publica08 last week.  I'm starting to think this may beacome a bit of a repetitive theme. To be clear, I agree with the principles behind it, openaccess, openstandards, opensource. To quote their site:

"With the decentralized structure of the internet, there is no reason to have gatekeepers that limit who gets to show their videos to the world. Miro is built to connect with any online publisher that has video RSS feeds, whether they are individuals or video hosting companies."
https://www.getmiro.com/about/mission/

But I'm not sure (a) who it's for, or (b) who's using it.  It seems to be yet another product built on good intentions and a lot of assumptions. 

The company behind it the Participatory Culture Foundation is proud of its non-profit status and its mission to create tools for broader, deeper engagement with culture and politics. Being non-profit means that the employees are signed up to 'the Miro cause' and that the company is more accountable to its user community and the public.  All well and good, but to me it seems that the cause is more important than producing a product that people want/need.

If you're young and techy, or even just a bit techy, you've probably got your peer-to-peer software of choice installed and configured exactly as you want it.  You'll also know all of your favourite video sites and probably have RSS feeds configured to tell you about all the new content.  If you're older then TV/video probably means entertainment to you. You probably don't want to fuss about with an application like Miro, and you probabaly want something that provides more of a TV experience, e.g. Joost or iPlayer (not that either are in any way perfect).

I've also yet to see anyone outside of the usual slashdot, boingboing, techradar websites discussing the product.  Any product needs to be sustainable in the long term to support the company, that develops it, charitable or not.  Where's the publicity mission? The current mission is far too technical and idealistic; how are they going to get it out there? However much you dislike the big corporates of the world, they do know that sales (or in this case give aways) are ultimately what counts.

PS If someone from Miro can prove me wrong I'd be glad to hear from them. Although ultimately only time, uptake, and the company's survival will tell us. 

Anticipating my thesis work, I've been wondering about similar text mining questions. I think my needs are a bit different than those of PMR: I'm interested in papers that meet a targeted search, rather than all articles or all articles in relevant journal (what I gather he's be interested in?). I'm willing to limit myself to the articles that I have access to through my University's subscriptions. I don't need figures. I think once I have the papers I'm allowed to text mine them as fair use, since I have them under permission. So the question is what can I automatically download?

I learned I can't spider PMC, but what about normal PubMed? Try as I might, I couldn't find verbage on the PubMed website allowing/disallowing spidering through to full-text links on publisher websites (the links that are populated and visible when I'm logged in through the University's connection). Is this allowed? Still seems like it might not be. And then you end up at the publisher sites anyway, with all of their differing rules. Unfort, the publisher's rules are often hard to find, confusing, and vague (as often noted by PMR and others). Aaaaah.

So last month I asked our librarians....

As you know, PMC has OA and non-OA full-text. They make their OA text available via FTP etc, and they stipulate that those mechanisms are the only way that people are allowed to access the full text "because of copyright restrictions" [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/about/copyright.html]. I'd also like to access non-OA text for which Pitt has subscriptions, but it sounds like I can't do this by "crawling" PMC based on their rules [explicitly stated in the link above]. I guess I'm wondering if I can do it by "crawling" the normal, full PubMed. Basically write a script to find the "HSLS" links on the article citation pages, follow them (usually into the publisher's websites), and automatically save the html or pdf articles that are returned from a PubMed query.

There is no difference in the end result from me manually clicking through and saving the papers... but there is sure a difference in the manual time requirement! I wouldn't have thought this sort of automated downloading would be a problem... but the Restrictions on Systematic Downloading of articles in the PMC copyright notice referenced above makes me want to double-check. I can't find any reference to "crawling" or "systematic downloads" for PubMed itself.

I do understand there are user requirements when using the Entrez programming utilities (run automated queries during off hours, 3 seconds between queries, etc) and I would be sure to honor those both with the elements of my scripts which use the E-tools and those which are crawling the web pages directly.

Does that make sense? Are you aware of any restrictions for crawling PubMed to automatically access and save content for which I do indeed have access through Pitt? I guess since I'm going into the publisher's websites, they might also have restrictions? Is there another way to consolidate a large set electronic full-text articles (ideally a few thousand)?

Thanks very much for any pointers you may have.

The librarian responsed that automatically following PubMed links should be fine, and that there shouldn't be problems from publisher sites because we have subscriptions and my text mining falls under fair use. I'll add that I think it helps that I'm not aiming to download full editions, because I do know that some publisher websites disallow that.

Maybe I shouldn't be bringing it up again here, since it feels like I've been given an institutional "All Clear." But no sense burying my head in the sand in case there really are issues: I want to know. Web downloading policies and full-text reuse policies are so complicated. I've spent time looked into them, but it sure seems like unless it is your full-time job it is impossible to understand and keep on top of how it works. I don't think our librarians deal with these issues every day. Who else would I go to for clarification?

Does anyone have differing interpretations, warnings, reassurances, alternatives, and general paths through this crazy mess? How do other people do this???

Being the first programme of this kind it could be reshaping the world of scientific publishing:

"OAPEN intends to develop and implement an Open Access publication model for peer reviewed academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This Open Access publication model will also serve as a model in other scientific domains and improve the spread of European research results. The project aims to achieve a sustainable European approach to improve the quantity, visibility and usability of high quality academic research and foster the creation of new content by developing future-oriented publishing solutions, including an Online Library." (source)

Press release OAPEN

eContentplus programme 

Text des Memorandums zur Open Acess Initiative

Ein Interview mit Robert Darnton, dem neuen Direktor der Harvard Bibliothek findet sich in der FAZ vom 03. März 2008 ]]> http://atlibber.wordpress.com/?p=9 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:18:13 +0000 atlibber http://atlibber.wordpress.com/?p=9 This chart displays how many repositories are using a particular software throughout the World.  It was generated from OpenDOAR:

Comparing this to the US specifically:

Fedora is also a prominent software within the literature but it does not appear here.  Perhaps some of the unkonwn ones are Fedora?

"Eprints are the digital texts of peer-reviewed research articles, before and after refereeing. Before refereeing and publication, the draft is called a preprint. The refereed, accepted final draft is called a postprint" (ePrints FAQ). They are integral to the open access movement in the academic research community - primarily in scientific fields (a movement with both supporters and detractors) and can be found in archives and digital repositories around the globe such as Cornell's arXiv and many in ROAR.

To me, web 2.0 is basically defined as third part of the trinity

• REST - HTTP done right
• AJAX - JavaScript done right
• Web 2.0 - the Web done right

And just as the other two, it's more defined as a correction of prior
erring. It's no longer cool - or even ok - to publish a web site in
PDF to browsers and some other data via a WS-* type web service to
others. Instead, once you forget about browsers being the only user
agents, quite a bit of the web 2.0 developments seem very natural.

So the participative aspect of web 2.0 starts well before everyone
creating content; it starts with not making restrictive assumptions
about who and how people - or programs - will use your site. Let the
web participate in reusing your content.

I think this aspect is particularly important for librarians to
embrace. They don't (necessarily) need to have ideas themselves of how
their data (catalogs, ...) may be used, but they should care about
making it accessible:

• Provide URLs (as stable as possible) for resources.
• Publish new resources via feeds.
• Offer open interfaces (sru, OpenSearch, unapi, Coins, ...).
• Make sure you publish semantically meaningful HTML (because screen scrapers have become first class citizens of the web, too).

My guess is, that the above recommendations do also make sense for
intranet services in many scientific institutions, because the
mechanisms to mashup data have become so easy that they are actually
available to end users as well.

So, let's open up the catalog and see what happens.

--- request ---
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: npg.nature.com

--- response ---
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
content-length: 0
set-cookie: ...
server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
connection: close
location: http://npg.nature.com/index.html
date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:40:00 GMT
content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Ok. We'll follow:

--- request ---
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: npg.nature.com

--- response ---
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
content-length: 292
set-cookie: ...
server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
connection: close
location: http://www.nature.com/npg
date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:39:56 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Ah. We're still not there.

--- request ---
GET /npg HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nature.com

--- response ---
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
content-length: 0
set-cookie: ...
server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
connection: keep-alive
location: http://www.nature.com/npg/
date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:40:34 GMT
content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Forgot the damn trailing slash ...

--- request ---
GET /npg/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nature.com

--- response ---
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
content-length: 19547
set-cookie: ...
server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
connection: keep-alive
date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:40:35 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Oops.

Ok. They're probably picky about user agents, cookies and so on. So let's bring in the headers:

--- request ---
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: npg.nature.com
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Keep-Alive: 300
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Connection: keep-alive

--- response ---
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
content-length: 0
set-cookie: BIGipServerJava=302055690.20480.0000; expires=Mon, 03-Sep-2007 06:57:02 GMT; server: Apache-Coconnection: close
location: http://npg.nature.com/index.html
date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:45:00 GMT
content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

--- request ---
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: npg.nature.com
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Keep-Alive: 300
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://npg.nature.com
Cookie: BIGipServerJava=302055690.20480.0000; expires=Mon; 03-Sep-2007 06:57:02 GMT; path=/; JSESSIONID=80AC4030C76B7E28DFE67DC7C2BA5993; Path=/

--- response ---
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
content-length: 292
set-cookie: BIGipServerJava=302055690.20480.0000; expires=Mon, 03-Sep-2007 06:57:03 GMT; path=/
server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
connection: close
location: http://www.nature.com/npg
date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:45:01 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

--- request ---
GET /npg HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nature.com
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Keep-Alive: 300
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://npg.nature.com/index.html
Cookie: BIGipServerJava=302055690.20480.0000; expires=Mon; 03-Sep-2007 06:57:03 GMT; path=/

--- response ---
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
content-length: 0
set-cookie: BIGipServerJava=302055690.20480.0000; expires=Mon, 03-Sep-2007 06:57:04 GMT; path=/
server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
connection: keep-alive
location: http://www.nature.com/npg/
date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:45:23 GMT
content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

--- request ---
GET /npg/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.nature.com
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Keep-Alive: 300
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.nature.com/npg
Cookie: BIGipServerJava=302055690.20480.0000; expires=Mon; 03-Sep-2007 06:57:04 GMT; path=/

--- response ---
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
content-length: 19547
set-cookie: BIGipServerJava=302055690.20480.0000; expires=Mon, 03-Sep-2007 06:57:05 GMT; path=/
vary: Accept-Encoding
server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
connection: keep-alive
date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:45:25 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hm. Didn't really help. But

content-length: 19547

seems pretty big for an error page. http://www.nature.com/npg/ looks fine in the browser, too. So checking the response headers firefox got

Response Headers - http://www.nature.com/npg/

Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:47:07 GMT
Content-Length: 19547
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Set-Cookie: BIGipServerJava=302055690.20480.0000; expires=Mon, 03-Sep-2007 06:58:47 GMT; path=/
404 Not Found

What is this supposed to be good for? I mean, as far as I know, you've got to actively do something in terms of server configuration to get this behaviour. This doesn't inspire much confidence in Nature being ready for the web.