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B – To Share or not to Share:Publication and QualityAssurance of ResearchData Outputs20 June 2008To Share or not to Share:Publication and QualityAssurance of ResearchData Outputs Report commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN), June 2008 The digital age has offered to the research community […]
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B – Are international co-publications an indicator for quality of scientific research?20 June 2008Schmoch U, Schubert T. Are international co-publications an indicator for quality of scientific research? Scientometrics 2008;74(3):361-377 The article deals with the role of internationally co-authored papers, or co-publications. Specifically, the […]
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N – Free access boosts science in poor countries17 June 2008Low cost access to research in poor countries has been accompanied by an advance in scientific discovery, an analysis by the publisher Elsevier suggests. The Health InterNetwork Access to Research […]
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B – How to give away your birthright for what?17 June 2008Unruh, W.G. 2008 Physicists and copyright – How to give away your birthright for what?. APS News 17(6)8. Draws attention to the consequences of some journals’ copyright transfer agreements which […]
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N – The power of n=113 June 2008Two new journals hope to harness the evidence in medical case reports. Cases Journal (www.casesjournal.com), launched by BioMed Central in May, is open access and peer reviewed and authors must […]
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N – Government dismisses simplified spellings9 June 2008The UK schools secretary, Ed Balls, has dismissed as “nonsense” claims that tricky English spellings hinder children’s education. The literacy researcher Masha Bell said that by the age of 11 […]
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B – How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products, and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories8 June 2008Schwitzer G. How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products, and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories. PLoS Med 2008;5(5): e95 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050095 Starting from the premise that the daily delivery […]
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N – XML extra for Word helps editors3 June 2008An extension to Word 2007 allows science journal editors to create article templates, tailored for their individual requirements. These templates can encourage authors to write articles with greater consistency and […]
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N – Nature rallies for evolution16 May 2008Between now and the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth on 12 February 2009 science academies and societies should summarise evidence for evolution on their websites and take every opportunity […]
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N – Medline has 121 000 duplicate articles16 May 2008Researchers estimate that the Medline database contains 121 000 duplicate articles. They analysed more than 62 213 abstracts indexed in Medline and found that 421 (1.4%) were duplicates with the […]
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B – Weighted impact factor proposal13 May 2008Habibzadeh F, Yadollahie M. Journal weighted impact factor: A proposal. Journal of Informetrics 2008;2(2):164-72 The authors consider the sole impact factor not adequate enough to measure journal quality. Therefore they […]
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B – Mind the hack5 May 2008Cartwright, Jon. 2008 Mind the hack. Physics World 21(5)14-15 Two of the worl’s biggest science journals (Nature and Science) control their news coverage by giving sneak previews of research under […]