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B – The “dos and don’ts” of writing a journal article27 January 2009Kekale T, de Weerd-Nederhof P, Cervai S, Borelli M. The “dos and don’ts” of writing a journal article. Journal of Workplace Learning.2009 (21)1:71-80 The purpose of this piece is to give some guidelines on typical problems that lead to rejection, and how to avoid these. Following these guidelines the review process of articles will be […]
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N – Societies investigate journals’ future26 January 2009The European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society have been selected for a pilot to test the application of semantic web and Web 2.0 technologies to journal articles, from a large number of applications. The project will explore the potential of these tools to help society publishers increase reader and member engagement with the […]
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B – Open science in e-science: contingency or policy?16 January 2009Fry J,Schroeder R, den Besten M. Open science in e-science: contingency or policy?Journal of Documentation; 2009 65(1): 6-32 DOI: 10.1108/00220410910926103 The question of “openness” in e-Science is discussed. The study is based on 12 interviews with principal investigators, project managers and developers involved in UK e-Science projects, together with supporting documentary evidence from project web […]
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B – Electronic journals and changes in scholarly article seeking and reading patterns16 January 2009Tenopir C, King DW, Edwards S, Wu L. Electronic journals and changes in scholarly article seeking and reading patterns. Aslib Proceedings; 2009: 61(1)5-32 DOI: 10.1108/00012530910932267 By tracking the information-seeking and reading patterns of science, technology, medical and social science faculty members from 1977 to the present, this paper seeks to examine how faculty members locate, […]
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B – Journals aim to improve access for the blind9 January 2009APS News. Journals aim to improve access for the blind APS News 2008 17(11)4, 7 APS journals are developing ways to improve the journals’ accessibility to blind people and others with print disabilities while adding enriched content for all users. The journals currently use XML/MathML formatting for text and equations wirh figures in Postscript. They […]
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N – They misunderestimated me!9 January 2009To celebrate the end of George Bush’s precidency of the United States, the Guardian newspaper has published online a random generator of Bushisms, his infamous gaffes. For such delights as “Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of […]
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B – Debating open access and arXiv9 January 2009Fairlie D. Debating open access and arXiv. Physics World 2009;22(1):20 Letter suggesting that the enormous numbers of papers posted on arXiv indicates that too many papers are being published and that there is at present little motive for authors to publish their material in peer reviewed journals; arXiv should be regarded as more like a […]
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B – Debating open access and arXiv9 January 2009Prentice, J. Debating open access and arXiv. Physics World 2009;22(1):20 Letter pointing out that transferring the cost of publishing to the author may make whether to publish a management decision rather than a scientific one. Posted for John Glen
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B – Elsevier challenged over journal operations9 January 2009Banks M. Elsevier challenged over journal operations. Physics World 2009;22(1):10 Reports concern about the Elsevier journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, whose editor-in-chief has published 334 papers since 1991, 290 of which appear in his own journal including 58 papers in the last year, 53 of which are in the journal itself, and whose papers have […]
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B – No to Negative Data8 January 2009Wiley S. No to Negative Data. Why I believe findings that disprove a hypothesis are largely not worth publishing. The Scientist 2208; 22(4):39 Some scientists have become so concerned about negative data that they have created journals dedicated to publishing negative results. According to the Author, negative results don’t actually seem to advance science therefore […]
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N – Geophysicists review colleagues’ papers8 January 2009Scientists at the Institute of Geophysics in Paris have been accused of reviewing papers by their colleagues at the institute. The papers were published from 1992 to 2008 in the Elsevier journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters while they were members of the editorial board, Nature reports. The scientists say that the editorial process is […]
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N – Australian journal restricts access6 January 2009The Medical Journal of Australia (www.mja.com.au) is restricting online access to general content, excluding research papers, from January 2009 to subscribed users only. The online edition of the journal has been free since its inception in 2001. All previously published articles will remain open access. Research articles will be freely accessible online for two weeks […]
