User:DavidGoodman

I'm David Goodman (member of the Citizendium Editorial Council)

• user name: DavidGoodman; email: dgoodmanny@gmail.com; WP name: DGG

• • currently working in CZ on: open access, journals, and related topics

I apologize for my recent absence, but I'm back, & just now starting to edit again

CV (abridged)

• B.S. Brooklyn College, (math)
• Ph.D Berkeley, (Molecular biology--Gunther Stent's lab)
• Post-Doc, Berkeley, (Evolutionary biochemistry--Allen Wilson's lab)
• Assistant Prof. of Biochemistry, Rutgers-Newark
• MLS Rutgers
• Chemistry Librarian, Princeton
• Biology Librarian, Princeton
• Biological Sciences Bibliographer & Research Librarian, Princeton
• Assoc. Prof. of Library Science, Long isand Univ.
• very temporarily retired.

Current projects:

• ProjectCOUNTER: Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources.
• Open access (analysis & advocacy)
• Online resources (reviewer and consultant)
• Scientific publishing (navigating between publishers & libraries)

Interests in CZ:

• Writing Library-related and publishing-related pages
• Writing some of the general biology pages
• Checking the biology for the parts I know enough
• Possibly working on some of the sexuality-related pages
• Reference sources for anything (writing or editing)
• Getting the Public Domain articles in science sourced & upgraded
  • I expect to do more revising than original writing.

Working style:

• I prefer to work incrementally, in hour-size chunks.
• I'll work with anyone who's willing to work with me
• I like to consult on major changes, and to negotiate off-line

CZ possible minority positions:

• Sensitive topics can (& must) be written about, & I'm willing to try--"family friendly" (an unfortunate terms as it is generally a code word for censorship according to the dictates of U.S. religious fundamentalists and extreme right wing politicians), should here mean anything that someone in a family might want to know.
• Distrust of academic specialists who think too much of their credentials
• Joint effort is usually better than the work of a single author.
• Almost all math & science articles can & should be written so those without a degree in the subject can understand some of it--and the same for any seemingly esoteric subject.

WP minority positions:

• Using Public Domain sources without exact quotations is plagiarism.
• Point of view forks are the clearest way of handling some topics.
• Web sources, even blogs, can be used as Reliable sources for determining notability. The world has changed since WP started.

(Relatively) absolutist position in any context:

• Freedom of speech.

Biases (not usually obvious here, I hope):

• Marxist, Atheist, Jewish, Academic, Internationalist

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