-
B – Opening up public health: a strategy of information and5 August 2009Reidpath D, Allotey P. Opening up public health: a strategy of information andcommunication technology to support population health. Lancet 2009 (243) 21: 1050-51 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60315-9 Information saves lives because it is […]
-
B – Scientific writing5 August 2009Langdon-Neuer E. Scientific writing. The Write stuff. 2009, 18 (2): 69-72 This in an editorial relating to an entire issue of The Write Stuff dedicated to scientific writing. It is […]
-
B – Writing an introduction to the introduction5 August 2009Harley J. Writing an introduction to the introduction. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2009, 39, 3, 321-329. Many authors give advice to students about how to write the Introduction […]
-
B – Fraud, misinformation and the open culture5 August 2009Pointon, Tony. Fraud, misinformation and the open culture. Physics World 2009;22(8):20 Letter suggesting that the questions opened by the Schön case of scientific fraud are much broader than just science. […]
-
B – Fledgling site challenges arXiv server5 August 2009Cartwright, Jon. Fledgling site challenges arXiv server. Physics World 2009;22(8):9http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/39845 A new website called viXra has been set up in the UK for sharing preprints with no restrictions on the […]
-
N – UK government advises on Twitter28 July 2009The UK government has released 20 pages of advice for government departments on how to use the microblogging site Twitter, which limits messages to 140 characters, the Guardian reports. Its […]
-
N – Chemistry publisher goes online-only17 July 2009The American Chemical Society will be turning most of its academic journal into online-only publications, reports Nature . The move has been prompted by declining print subscriptions and diminishing financial […]
-
B – The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess Citations15 July 2009Zhang C-T. The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess Citations. PLoS ONE 2009;4(5): e5429. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005429 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0005429 A new indicator is here proposed: the e-index. It is a necessary h-index complement […]
-
N – Turkey censors evolution articles14 July 2009The Turkish government has provoked outrage by censoring magazine articles on the life and work of Charles Darwin, Nature reports. The articles were dropped from the March issue of the […]
-
N – Comic Sans walks into a bar14 July 2009Who would have thought a typeface could cause such controversy? Comic Sans, designed by Vincent Connare, has attracted the wrath of designers, offended by its use in contexts such as […]
-
N – China publishes more in top journals14 July 2009China has tripled its research published in leading international journals in the past decade, a study by Nature China has found, reports SciDev.Net. The study reviewed the number of mainland […]
-
N – Web 2.0 opens conferences14 July 2009Social networking is changing behaviour among conference attendees, Nature reports. Delegates can informally discuss presentations as they occur, with each other and with outside parties. Some see this collaboration as […]