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B – Publishers’ opinion about open access2 March 2011Fister B. The cash cow has left the room. What will it take for publishers to wake up to our reality? LibraryJournal Jan 13, 2011 This past yaer has seen […]
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B- Predictive validity of editorial decisions2 March 2011Bornmann L, Mutz R, Marx W et al. A multilevel modelling approach to investigating the predictive validity of editorial decisions: do the editors of a high profile journal select manuscripts […]
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B – E-publication bias2 March 2011Krag Jakobsen A, Christensen R, Persson R et al. And now, e-publication bias. BMJ 2010;340:c2243(doi: 10.1136/bmj.c2243) In open access (OA) publishing scholarly communication is made available free 0f charge on […]
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B – Is open peer review the fairest system?2 March 2011Groves T. Is open peer review the fairest system? Yes. BMJ 2010;341:c6424(doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6424) The author (deputy editor at the BMJ) argues that telling authors who has reviewed their paper has […]
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B- What price quality?1 March 2011Lyle K. What price quality? Overseas outsourcing of editorial services. SfEP report; February 2011 A report, compiled by Kathleen Lyle, a founder member of the SfEP (Society for Editors and […]
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B – Emerging concepts in high-impact publishing15 February 2011Matarese V. Emerging concepts in high-impact publishing: insights from the First Brazilian Colloquium on High Impact Research and Publishing. Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità 2010;46(4):451-5 doi: 10.4415/ANN_10_04_14 At the First […]
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B – Women’s underrepresentation in science15 February 2011Ceci SJ, Williams WM. Understanding current causes of women’s underrepresentation in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America February 7, 2011 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1014871108 […]
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B – Mimicry in science?15 February 2011Bornmann L. Mimicry in science? Scientometrics 2011;(86):173-7doi: 10.1007/s11192-010-0222-8 Scientists apply strategies that should enable them to comply to bibliometric accountability and to secure funds to their own research. Some changes […]
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Wiley Open Access7 February 2011On 1 February 2011 Wiley announced the launch of Wiley Open Access, a programme of open access journals, publishing primary research in a range of subject disciplines in the life […]
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New social sciences network7 February 2011Socialsciencespace is a new online network, set up with the objective of enhancing the value and relevance of social sciences. It aims to bring together researchers, funders, societies, think tanks, […]
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Hey, you, get off of my cloud?7 February 2011Cloud computing is widely seen as the top technological priority for the coming 12 months, with an ever-increasing number of public cloud providers, such as Google and Dropbox. According to […]
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UK inquiry into peer review7 February 2011The UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the operation and effectiveness of the peer review process. Issues it is likely to examine include: peer review’s […]