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N – Twitter meets arXiv14 July 2009“Tweprints” will eventually begin to display the most talked about scientific papers, using the largest open collection of online papers available (arXiv) and the most prolific and popular social networking […]
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N – Oldest bible online14 July 2009The Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest surviving Bible in the world has been published online in full (www.codexsinaiticus.org). A four year project has brought together scans of the book’s more than […]
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N – Gifts for good reviews13 July 2009The publishing company Elsevier has confirmed that it was a mistake to offer $25 Amazon gift cards to academics contributing to the textbook Clinical Psychology to encourage them to post […]
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B – Qualitative research articles: guidelines, suggestions and needs9 July 2009Crescentini A, Mainardi G. Qualitative research articles: guidelines, suggestions and needs. Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009 (21)5: 431 – 439 DOI: 10.1108/13665620910966820 The paper discusses the design of qualitative research […]
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B – The insider’s guide to plagiarism9 July 2009The insider’s guide to plagiarism. Scientific plagiarism—a problem as serious as fraud—has not received all the attention it deserves. Nature Medicine 2009 (15) 707 doi:10.1038/nm0709-707 http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v15/n7/full/nm0709-707.html A little creative writing […]
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N – Seminal Nature editor dies8 July 2009John Maddox, editor of Nature from 1966 to 1973 and again from 1980 to 1995, died on 12 April 2009, according to the current editor Philip Campbell’s obituary. During his […]
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N – Train for open access8 July 2009The Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (www.openoasis.org) provides authoritative online training for anyone who wishes to provide open access to their research publications. It covers the concept, principles, advantages, approaches, […]
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N – Many Chinese trials flawed7 July 2009The design of more than 90% of 2235 randomised controlled trials published in Chinese medical journals was flawed, concludes a review (Trials 2009;10:46, doi:10.1186/1745-6215-10-46). Researchers trawled a Chinese national database […]
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N – Drug company made journal7 July 2009Merck paid Elsevier an undisclosed sum to produce several volumes of the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, which might be mistaken for a peer reviewed journal, the Scientist […]
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N – Millionth word was nonsense7 July 2009“The biggest load of chicken droppings” is how the linguist and academic David Crystal described claims that the English language would get its millionth word at 10 22 am on […]
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N – The end for embargoes?7 July 2009Embargoes turn journalists into propagandists for scientists and academic journals and reduce science to an artificial series of “eureka moments,” according to Vincent Kiernan, associate dean at Georgetown University speaking […]
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B – Letters commenting on a case of fraud7 July 2009Brandon, D. Santic, B. Reflections on the Schön affair. Physics World 2009;22(7):19. Two separate letters commenting on this case of fraud. Brandon discusses earlier cases such as “Piltdown man” and […]