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N – Beauty in information flow15 March 2009As researchers use journals to build knowledge they leave “a latticework of citations, from which we can reconstruct the geography of scientific thought,” say developers at the Eigenfactor Project (www.eigenfactor.com). […]
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N – Biological society has new head15 March 2009Nathalie Fomproix has succeeded Talal Younès as head of the International Union of Biological Sciences, which promotes the study of and research on biology. She was appointed on 2 March. […]
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b- Two Scenarios for How Scholarly Publishers Could Change Their Business Model to Open Access13 March 2009Björk B, Hedlund T.Two Scenarios for How Scholarly Publishers Could Change Their Business Model to Open Access. The Journal of electronic Publishing. 2009(12)1 doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0012.102 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;cc=jep;rgn=main;view=text;idno=3336451.0012.102 The Internet has made possible […]
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B – Empirical developments in retraction13 March 2009Redman BK, Yarandi HN, Merz JF. Empirical developments in retraction.Journal of Medical Ethics.2008;34:807-809 doi:10.1136/jme.2007.023069 http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/34/11/807 This study confirms that the rate of retractions remains low but is increasing. The most […]
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B – At what age do biomedical scientists do their best work?13 March 2009Falagas ME., Ierodiakonou V, Alexiou VGAt what age do biomedical scientists do their best work? The FASEB Journal 2008. published online August 27,2008doi: 10.1096/fj.08-117606 http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/abstract/fj.08-117606v1 Several human characteristics that influence […]
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B – Yours anonymously11 March 2009Grozier, Jim. Yours anonymously. Physics World 2009;22(2):20 Letter commending Physics World for including an edited selection of comments that originally appeared on its website physicsworld.com but regretting that the website […]
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N – Open Access week7 March 2009Open access week declared for 2009. For the first time, the popular global event will be extended from one day only to a whole week (October 9th-23rd) in order to […]
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B – APS copyright revision expands author rights7 March 2009Ramlagan, Nadia. APS copyright revision expands author rights. APS News 2009;18(2):8. http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200902/copyright.cfm A recently revised copyright transfer form for journal articles allows authors to make and hold copyright for “derivative […]
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N – Students armed with sub-editing skills6 March 2009Luckhurst T. Students armed with sub-editing skills are given tools for life. Times Higher Education Supplement 5 March 2009 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405669&c=1 A former editor of the Daily Mirror, Roy Greenslade, has […]
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B – Preserving Intellectual Freedom in Clinical Medicine5 March 2009Fava GA. Preserving Intellectual Freedom in Clinical Medicine. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. 2009;78:1-5 DOI: 10.1159/000162295 http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowFulltext&ArtikelNr=162295&Ausgabe=240438&ProduktNr=223864 The paper, authored by the journal editor, notes that the drug industry has full control […]
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B – Citation levels and collaborative research3 March 2009Levitt JM, Thelwall M. Citation levels and collaboration within library and information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2009;60(3):434-442.http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121577094/HTMLSTART This study, by examining the Web […]
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N – Do blogs break embargoes?27 February 2009Scientists are uncertain if blogging is part of science, journalism, or public discourse, says an editorial in Nature (2009 Feb 26;457:1058, doi:10.1038/4571058a). Embargoes rest on the principle that work should […]
