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N – JISC aggregates journal contents29 December 2008The tables of content of the tables of content of 11469 scholarly journal from 421 publishers can be viewed together in a service from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). […]
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N – Libraries make come back24 December 2008Almost 60% of respondents said that they used library technology to help navigate to scholarly content 95% of the time, in a three year study. But publishers have responded less […]
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N – Subeditors demand writer’s respect22 December 2008An expletive splattered leaked email shows the contempt that the restaurant reviewer Giles Coren has for subeditors at the Sunday Times newspaper. Coren’s 1000 word rant was complaining about the […]
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N – Springer buys BioMed Central22 December 2008Springer Science and Business Media agreed in October to acquire the BioMed Central Group, a pioneering global open access publisher. BioMed Central was launched in May 2000 as an independent, […]
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N – Open access association launched22 December 2008The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (www.oaspa.org) was launched in October. Its mission is to support and represent the interests of open access journals publishers globally in all scholarly disciplines […]
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N – Treat Déjà Vu with caution22 December 2008Déjà Vu (http://spore.swmed.edu/dejavu), a free database of “extremely similar Medline citations,” which might represent duplicate publications, is not always to be trusted. An editorial in Clinical Chemistry points out many […]
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N – Campaigners criticise misconduct policy22 December 2008The UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) has issued a standard procedure for universities to deal with allegations of research misconduct. But it has been criticised, with one campaigner comparing it […]
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N – The blog is dead22 December 2008Don’t bother starting a blog. “Cut rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths,” says Paul Boutin, writing on www.wired.com. Jason Calacanis, who […]
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N – SfEP chairwoman thinks strategy19 December 2008Sarah Price has taken the helm as chairwoman of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP). The society hopes that other appointments to the council will strengthen its strategic planning. […]
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N – COPE redesigns website19 December 2008The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has a redesigned website and a new URL—http://publicationethics.org. It has also prepared guidelines for boards of directors of learned journals (http://publicationethics.org/guidelines). Journals should update […]
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N – Lust in translation19 December 2008The prestigious Max Planck Society has apologised after using calligraphy on the cover of a special China issue of its flagship magazine that turned out to advertise a Hong Kong […]
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B – The future of science: building a better collective memory14 December 2008Nielsen, Michael A. The future of science: building a better collective memory APS News 2008 17(10)8 Article discussing the relative failure of science to improve the long-term memory and short-term […]