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B- Licence to publish better than copyright transfer14 December 2008Taylor, R.I. Licence to publish better than copyright transfer APS News.2008,17(10)4 Letter advocating the policy of the author’s employers, a commercial organisation, that never transfers copyright but only deals with […]
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Borrowing, debt, and plagiarism7 December 2008This piece, in the Guardian’s review section, starts with borrowing as the source of current economic woes, then moves on to the experiences of debt of authors and characters, before […]
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B – Free for all5 December 2008Harnad, John. 2008 Free for all Physics World 21(12)16-17 Discusses open access journals and the danger of lowering standards of refereeing because of financial pressure. It also discusses the formation […]
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B – The price of free papers5 December 2008Banks, Michael. 2008 The price of free papers Physics World 21(12)12-13 Discusses the present state of open access journals and the economics of their publication. The preprint server arXiv and […]
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N – Christmas lunch not dinner3 December 2008Most Daily Telegraph readers eat “Christmas lunch” rather than “Christmas dinner,” said Simon Heffer, the paper’s associate editor, in an angry email to staff. “This is not the Daily Star,” […]
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B – Open data: the elephant in the room?30 November 2008Morgan P. Open data: the elephant in the room? Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries.20084(4): 4-6 Scientific research is based on data and the Open Access […]
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B – Publishing should help research30 November 2008Inchoombe I. Publishing should help research. Research Information.June/July 2008 The managing director of Nature Publishing Group (NPG) expresses his views on STM publishing. In his opioiob, there is an expectation […]
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B – Beyond English: Accessing the global epidemiological literature29 November 2008Beyond English: Accessing the global epidemiological literatureEdited by Mr. Isaac Fung Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:21 doi:10.1186/1742-7622-5-21 The thematic series ‘Beyond English: Accessing the global epidemiological literature’ in Emerging […]
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B – Finding open access articles using Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR29 November 2008Norris M, Oppenheim C, Rowland F. Finding open access articles using Google, Google Scholar, OAIster and OpenDOAR. Online Information Review. 2008 (32)6:709-15 DOI: 10.1108/14684520810923881 The purpose of this paper is […]
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B – Peer Review Isn’t Perfect…But it’s not a conspiracy28 November 2008Wiley S. Peer Review Isn’t Perfect…But it’s not a conspiracy designed to maintain the status quo. The Scientists 2008 (11):31 When peer review is negative, it is counterproductive to consider […]
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B – Publication is positively skewed20 November 2008Bjorn G. Publication is positively skewed. Nature Medicine 2008;14:1133doi:10.1038/nm1108-1133b The article reports the results of some investigations showing that positive results of clinical trials for drugs or devices have a […]
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B – Bubble fusion scientist disciplined20 November 2008Levi B G. Bubble fusion scientist disciplined. Physics Today 2008;61(11):28-30 Reports the results of a third investigation by Purdue Unuversity into alleged scientific misconduct by Rusi Taleyarkhan in connection with […]