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B – Open access in 200829 January 2009Suber P. Open access in 2008. SPARC Open Access Newsletter. 2009(129)2 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-09.htm It is a very clear and complete review of the open access development in 2008 including Open access […]
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B – The “dos and don’ts” of writing a journal article27 January 2009Kekale T, de Weerd-Nederhof P, Cervai S, Borelli M. The “dos and don’ts” of writing a journal article. Journal of Workplace Learning.2009 (21)1:71-80 The purpose of this piece is to […]
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N – Societies investigate journals’ future26 January 2009The European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society have been selected for a pilot to test the application of semantic web and Web 2.0 technologies to journal articles, from […]
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B – Open science in e-science: contingency or policy?16 January 2009Fry J,Schroeder R, den Besten M. Open science in e-science: contingency or policy?Journal of Documentation; 2009 65(1): 6-32 DOI: 10.1108/00220410910926103 The question of “openness” in e-Science is discussed. The study […]
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B – Electronic journals and changes in scholarly article seeking and reading patterns16 January 2009Tenopir C, King DW, Edwards S, Wu L. Electronic journals and changes in scholarly article seeking and reading patterns. Aslib Proceedings; 2009: 61(1)5-32 DOI: 10.1108/00012530910932267 By tracking the information-seeking and […]
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B – Journals aim to improve access for the blind9 January 2009APS News. Journals aim to improve access for the blind APS News 2008 17(11)4, 7 APS journals are developing ways to improve the journals’ accessibility to blind people and others […]
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N – They misunderestimated me!9 January 2009To celebrate the end of George Bush’s precidency of the United States, the Guardian newspaper has published online a random generator of Bushisms, his infamous gaffes. For such delights as […]
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B – Debating open access and arXiv9 January 2009Fairlie D. Debating open access and arXiv. Physics World 2009;22(1):20 Letter suggesting that the enormous numbers of papers posted on arXiv indicates that too many papers are being published and […]
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B – Debating open access and arXiv9 January 2009Prentice, J. Debating open access and arXiv. Physics World 2009;22(1):20 Letter pointing out that transferring the cost of publishing to the author may make whether to publish a management decision […]
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B – Elsevier challenged over journal operations9 January 2009Banks M. Elsevier challenged over journal operations. Physics World 2009;22(1):10 Reports concern about the Elsevier journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, whose editor-in-chief has published 334 papers since 1991, 290 of […]
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B – No to Negative Data8 January 2009Wiley S. No to Negative Data. Why I believe findings that disprove a hypothesis are largely not worth publishing. The Scientist 2208; 22(4):39 Some scientists have become so concerned about […]
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N – Geophysicists review colleagues’ papers8 January 2009Scientists at the Institute of Geophysics in Paris have been accused of reviewing papers by their colleagues at the institute. The papers were published from 1992 to 2008 in the […]