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B – The value of data13 February 2012Barend M, van Haagen H, Chichester C et al. The value of data. Nature Genetics 2011;43(4):281-283(doi: 10.1038/ng0411-281) Data citation and the derivation of semantic constructs directly from datasets have now […]
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B – Modelling and representing the scholarly article13 February 2012Pettifer S, McDermott P, Marsh J. et al. Ceci n’est pas un hamburger: modelling and representing the scholarly article. Learned Publishing 2011;24(3):207-220(doi: 10.1087/20110309) In spite of its apparent limitations, the […]
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B – The Creative Commons licence9 February 2012Morgan C. Understanding the Creative Commons licence. Learned Publishing 2011;24(1):51-53(doi: 10.1087/20110108) This article explores some of the issues related to the use of the Creative Commons (CC) licences. Six types […]
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B – Science as a public enterprise8 February 2012Boulton G, Rawlins M, Vallance P et al. Science as a public enterprise: the case for open data. The Lancet 2011;337(9778):1663-1635(doi: 10.1016/S0140-6376(11)60647-8) Despite the spectacular advances of science, nowadays there […]
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B – Coercive citation in academic publishing7 February 2012Wilhite AW, Fong EA. Coercive citation in academic publishing. Science 2012;335(6068):542-543(doi: 10.1126/science.1212540) One side effect of impact factors is the incentive they create for many journal editors to coerce authors […]
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B – Article evaluation: the five stars1 February 2012Shotton D. The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles – a framework for article evaluation. D-Lib Magazine Epub January/February 2012;18(1/2)(doi: 10.1045/january2012-shotton) The author proposes five factors – peer review, open […]
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B – Retraction index31 January 2012Fang FC, Casadevall A, Morrison RP. Retracted science and the retraction index. Infection and Immunity 2011;79(10):3855-3859(doi: 10.1128/IAI.05661-11) To determine whether journals differ in frequency of retracted articles and whether there […]
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B – Influence of titles on citations31 January 2012Jamali H, Nikzad M. Article title type and its relation with the number of downloads and citations. Scientometrics 2011;88(2):653-661(doi: 10.1007/s11192-011-0412-z) The authors wondered if the type of article title affect […]
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B – Evaluating research: from informed peer-review to bibliometrics31 January 2012Abramo G, D’Angelo CA. Evaluating research: from informed peer-review to bibliometrics. Scientometrics 2011;87(3):499-514(doi: 10.1007/s11192-011-0352-7) This article contrasts the peer-review and bibliometrics approaches in the conduct of national research assessment exercises. […]
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B – New ways of making academic articles easier to read31 January 2012Hartley J. New ways of making academic articles easier to read. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology 2011;12(1):141-158 This article focuses on more recent techniques in writing academic journal […]
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N – New journal from FEBS13 January 2012Another News Notes, another new open biology journal. The Federation of Biochemical Societies (FEBS) has launched a new ‘open-access’ journal called FEBS Open Bio. The journal, published by Elsevier, is […]
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N – Free access to UK research?13 January 2012The UK Government has published a report that calls for all publicly funded research to be made freely available. The report says: “Government will work with partners, including the publishing […]