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B – Usage of open access journals29 September 2010Chaudhuri J, Thohira M. Usage of open-access journals: findings from eleven top science and medical journals. The Serials Librarians 2010;58(1):97-105(doi: 10.1080/03615261003623070) Usage patterns of open-access and hybrid-open-access journals in selected scholarly publications are outlined. More than 1,100 citations from eleven top science and medical journals for the years 2004, 2006 and 2008 were analyzed. The […]
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B – Google Scholar as a tool for discovering articles in LIS journals28 September 2010Lewandowski D. Google Scholar as a tool for discovering journal articles in library and information science. Online Information Review 2010; 34(2):250-262(doi: 10.1108/14684521011036972) The purpose of this paper is to measure the coverage of Google Scholar (GS) for 35 major Library Information Science (LIS) journals from the years 2004 to 2006, and to collect information on […]
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B – Publishing in China27 September 2010Harris S. East meets West as reasearch grows. Research Information August/September 2010:14-15 In this first of a two-part focus on China research and publishing, people involved in research and in supplying research content in China were asked about their experiences of Chinese research and information access. Over the past 10 to 15 years Chinese researchers […]
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B – Disseminate time-sensitive research faster27 September 2010Stanbrook MB, Hébert PC. Disseminate time-sensitive research faster. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2010; 182(1):9(doi: 10.1503/cmaj.092077) Traditional dissemination processes used by researchers, policy-makers, regulators and journals may prove inadequate for health professionals and the public, particularly during health emergencies or for reporting possible new risks of widely prescribed therapies. Communication of important research findings that have […]
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B – Are shorter article titles more attractive to citations?27 September 2010Habibzadeh F., Yadollahie M. Are shorter article titles more attractive for citations? Cross-sectional study of 22 scientific journals. Croatian Medical Journal 2010 April;51(2):165-70(doi: 10.3325/cmj.2010.51.165) In the instructions to authors, journal scientific editors usually give advice that the titles of articles should be concise for a better clarity of the message and a greater attractiveness for […]
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B – How a pre-publication review may affect the rate of scientific progress27 September 2010Shrager J. The promise and perils of pre-publication review: a multi-agent simulation of biomedical discovery under varying levels of review stringency. PLoS One 2010;5(5):e10782(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010782) The Internet has enabled profound changes in the way science is performed especially in scientific communications, it has raisen new possibilities but also the potential for new problems.A web-based review […]
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B – Fraud and ethics23 September 2010Feldman BJ. Fraud could be more common than thought. APS News 2010;19(8):5 Letter to the American Physical Society APS News suggesting the need for the physics community to start to seriously and openly discuss issues concerning the motivation for fraud and suggesting more discussion of fraud and ethics in graduate curricula and also the need […]
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B- Preserving research for the future21 September 2010Pool R. Preserving research for the future. Research Information August/September 2010; 10-11 In 2008 a survey was addressed by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) to its members and in 2010 the Oxford University Press (OUP) surveyed its cutomers, the librarians, to find out what they thought about the long-term preservation of […]
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B – New APS policies enhance access to journals21 September 2010American Physical Society. New APS policies enhance access to journals APS News 2010;19(8):1,3The editors of the APS journals Physical Review Letters, Physical Review and Reviews of Modern Physics have announced a new policy by which all US public libraries are given free online access to all APS journals, they are also allowing free access to […]
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B – Scholarly publishing through open access: a bibliography21 September 2010Bailey CW Jr. Transforming scholarly publication through open access: a bibliography. Digital Scholarship website 2010;180 p. Can scholarly journal articles and other scholarly works be made freely available on the Internet? This volume contains over 1,100 references providing in-depth coverage of published journal articles, books, and other works about the open access movement. Many references […]
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B – Mutations of citations17 September 2010Specht CG. Opinion: Mutations of citations. Just like general information, citations can accumulate heritable mutations. The Scientist.com 16th September 2010. Citation variants – that can comprise the author’s name, journal, volume, first page number and year of publication – arise through a variety of mechanisms similar to those described by molecular genetics and that can […]
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B – PaperMaker: validation of biomedical scientific publications15 September 2010Rebholz-Schuhmann D, Kavaliauskas S, Pezik P. PaperMaker: validation of biomedical scientific publications. Bionformatics 2010;26(7):982-984(doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq060) PaperMaker is a web-based service that helps the authors of a biomedical scientific publication to improve his manuscript prior to submission to a journal. It analyses the document, checks consistency parameters and gives author feedback on the appropriate use of […]
