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B – Teamwork saves review time in neuroscience20 March 2008Teamwork saves review time in neuroscience. March 2008 Research Information After the PubMed Plus Conference in June 2007, in an unprecedented move, a group of neuroscience journals have agreed to share reviewers’ comments among each other and formed the Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium (NPRC). The NPRC hopes that reducing the number of times a manuscript […]
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B – Quality journals and gamesmanship in management studies20 March 2008Macdonald S, Kam J. Aardvark et al.: quality journals and gamesmanship in management studies. Journal of Information Science 2007;33(6):702-717doi: 10.1177/0165551507077419 This paper analyses the notion of ‘quality journal’, as the publication in so defined journals has become a major indicator of research performance in UK universities. The indicator, as often happens, has become the target, […]
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B – Clinical knowledge: from access to action20 March 2008Clinical knowledge: from access to action. The Lancet 2008;371(9615):785doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60351-7 Harvard is making an institutional commitment to open-access publishing, and several leading universities are now preparing to follow its example. Traditional publishers responded to the research community’s interest in wider access to medical science with a strategy unlikely to send a positive signal to the medical […]
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W – TopCited in differnt disciplines19 March 2008Scopus (http://www.scopus.com/) has recently released TopCited(http://info.scopus.com/topcited/), a free service informing about themost-cited recent articles (2004-2008)in various disciplines. Users can also view the top 20 articles from the past 3, 4, or 5 years in oneof the 26 subject areas, and view the authors’ institutions on a Google Map. http://info.scopus.com/topcited/
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B – Mandatory Health19 March 2008Takeuchi Cullen L. Mandatory Health. Time, March, 2008 Among the ten revolutionary ideas that will change how the world works, Time includes “Mandatory Health”. The article appearing in Time, reviews the story of healthcare in America, citing an article from the New England Journal of Medicine, and suggests that soon the boss may tell employees […]
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B – Effectiveness of Journal Ranking19 March 2008Stringer MJ, Sales-Pardo M, Nunes Amaral LA (2008) Effectiveness of Journal Ranking Schemes as a Tool for Locating Information. PLoS ONE 3(2): e1683. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001683 Electronic publishing, preprint archives, blogs, and wikis raise concerns among all stakeholders in the editorial chain about the relevance of traditional peer reviewed journals. These concerns are increased by the ability […]
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B – Elsevier Agrees to Let MIT Use Bits of Journal Articles Online19 March 2008Young J R. Elsevier Agrees to Let MIT Use Bits of Journal Articles Online. 2008 The Chronicle of Higher Education The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that it has reached a deal with Elsevier to allow a limited amount of material from its journals to be used in MIT’s OpenCourseWare project, winning a major challenge […]
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B – Electronic publishing in librarianship and information science in Latin America16 March 2008Johnson JM, Cano V. Electronic publishing in librarianship and information science in Latin America – a step towards development? Information Research 2008, 13(1, March) The paper draws on the results of studies carried on between 2004 and 2007 as part of Project REVISTAS, supported by the European Commission’s ALFA Programme. Through a variety of methods […]
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B – Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?10 March 2008Waldrop MM. Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk? Scientific American 9 January 2008. The article describes how researchers are beginning to harness wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 technologies as a potentially transformative way of doing science. The author invites also readers to comment on the draft article, promising that the input given […]
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B – Tale of two citations9 March 2008M Errami, H Garner. Tale of two citations. Nature 2008 (451): 397 – 399 2008).doi:10.1038/451397a Are scientists publishing more duplicate papers? An automated search of seven million biomedical abstracts suggests that they are. High-profile cases of scientific misconduct remind us that not all those publications are to be trusted.The scientific community must be aware that […]
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B – Acceptance of the JISC/SURF Licence to Publish & accompanying Principles by traditional publishers of journals5 March 2008Beunen A. Acceptance of the JISC/SURF Licence to Publish & accompanying Principles by traditional publishers of journals December 2007 Surf Foundation This report presents the results of an enquiry carried out among 47 traditional publishers of journals. The study asked publishers if they support the Principles formulated by SURFfoundation and JISC, which attempt to clarify […]
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B – Journals to Print Author Names in Chinese, Japanese and Korean2 March 2008[American Physical Society. 2008 [Heading in Chinese characters!]. APS News 17(2)1. The APS journals now offer authors the option to include their names in either Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters following the name as it appears in Latin characters. The progam, announced in December, is offered to author by-lines throughout the Physical Review journals, including […]
