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N – Editorial boards lack women29 April 2008Women made up only a fifth (21%) of the editorial boards in 2005, although they were far worse represented in 1970, with just 1% of positions, a 35 year study […]
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N – Spanish portal opens access29 April 2008A national portal for Spanish open access scientific publications, Recolecta (www.recolecta.net), has been launched. The project is a collaboration between the Spanish network of libraries REBIUN and the Spanish Foundation […]
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N – Publishers confirm authors’ rights29 April 2008Advocating authors to add copyright postscripts to journal publishing agreements is a call for needless bureaucracy, said the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers in March. The publishers’ […]
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N – Web ability declines with age29 April 2008People’s ability to use websites declines between the ages of 35 and 60 by 0.8% a year, says the web usability specialist Jakob Nielsen. This is because they spend more […]
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N – Students plagiarise plagiarism code29 April 2008Students at the University of Texas at San Antonio drafted a code to discourage plagiarism, but they took sections from Brigham Young University’s plagiarism code, which they found online, a […]
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N – Blog till you drop29 April 2008Two fatal heart attacks in the United States may have been a result of stress caused by excessive blogging, an article in the New York Times suggests. Other bloggers complain […]
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29 April 2008Giustini D. Web 3.0 and medicine. BMJ 2007;335:1273-1274 doi: 10.1136/bmj.39428.494236.BE Medical librarians believe that it is necessary to build better mechanisms for information retrieval, due to the current bulk of […]
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N – Email damages productivity29 April 2008The three billion emails sent a day in the United Kingdom are “leaving us tired, frustrated and unproductive.” A third of office workers suffer “email stress. ” And dealing with […]
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N – Le bloc replaces the blog29 April 2008The English words “blog,” “email,” and “podcast” have been banned by French government, to be replaced by the more French sounding “bloc,” “courriel,” and “diffusion pour baladeur.” The French ministry […]
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N – Peer reviews stay private29 April 2008The New England Journal of Medicine has been told by a federal magistrate that it does not have to hand over peer reviews to the drug company Pfizer. The company […]
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N – Save the semicolon?29 April 2008France is debating the future of the semicolon, according to a Guardian blog. The “point virgule,” the writer François Cavanna is reported as saying, is “a parasite, a timid, fainthearted, […]
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N – Vigilante copy edits America29 April 2008An illustrated blog (www.jeffdeck.com/teal/blog) has been started to document errors in public signage and their correction by the Typo Eradication Advancement League, in a three month trip across the United […]
