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B – Who’s watching whose ethics?1 December 2007Shashok K, Jacobs A. Who’s watching whose ethics? Slanted reporting of the medical writer’s role in the Neuropsychopharmacology-Cyberonics case 1. The Write Stuff. 2007 (16)1-3 Medical writing is seldom considered in the lay press, and whenever it happens, it is mostly misleading. A recent case of blame on a medical writer and the following attempts […]
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B – Planning that title and the use of colons30 November 2007Hartley J. Planning that title: Practices and preferences for titles withcolons in academic articles. Library & Information Science Research. 2007(29): 553–568doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2007.05.002 There is a large debate on effective titles that influence article reading and its citations. This article considers the use of “colonic” titles in different disciplines. Colons play an important role in titles for […]
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B – Academics’ views on publishing refereed works29 November 2007Hemmings BC,Rushbrook P, Smith E. Academics’ views on publishing refereed works: A content analysis. Higher Education. 2007, 54(2):307-332. DOI 10.1007/s10734-005-8608-x A research from an Australian university aiming to explore academics views about publishing or not publishing in refereed sources and their perceived worth of this activity. The survey included many questions to get information on […]
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B – Integration of the research library service into the editorial process28 November 2007Brown D, Leith D. Integration of the research library service into the editorial process. “Embedding” the librarian into the media. New Information Perspectives 2007 59(6):539-549 The purpose of the study is to outline changes in information management and decentralise library services according to the paradigms of modern media organisation. The methodology was to review best […]
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B – The Delorean or the Mini? Digital imperatives for publishers, digital dilemmas for repositories.28 November 2007Gorman G E. The Delorean or the Mini? Digital imperatives for publishers, digital dilemmas for repositories. Online Information Review 2007 3(6):741-743 The paper aims at examining the issue of the development of digital publishing and the managing of data preservation. As publihsers, writers and readers are becoming increasingly digital, a greater burden seems to be […]
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B – Using position, fonts and cited references to retrieve documents.26 November 2007Yen-Liang Chen, Li-Chen Cheng, and Yun-Ling Cheng. – Using position, fonts and cited references to retrieve scientific documents. Journal of Information Science 2007 33: 492-508 As more and more documents become available on the internet, finding documents that fit users’ needs is becoming increasingly important. A scientific document is a structured text and has some […]
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B – Coverage analysis of Scopus26 November 2007de Moya-Anegón F, Chinchilla-Rodríguez Z, Vargas-Quesada B, Corera-Álvarez E, Muñoz-Fernández FJ, González-Molina A, Herrero-Solana V. Coverage analysis of Scopus: A journal metric approach.Scientometrics 2007,73(1: 53-78.10.1007/s11192-007-1681-4 The coverage of the Scopus database is compared with Ulrich’s. The variables taken into account were subject distribution, geographical distribution, distribution by publishers and the language of publication. The analysis […]
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B – Measuring scientific eminence with h-index and other indicators26 November 2007Peter Vinkler. – Eminence of scientists in the light of the h-index and other scientometric indicators. Journal of Information Science 2007 33: 481-491. DOI: 10.1177/0165551506072165 Scientometrics cannot offer a simple consistent method for measuring the scientific eminence of individuals. The h-index method introduced by Hirsch was found applicable for evaluating publications of senior scientists with […]
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W – The history of Nature, 138 years of science publication20 November 2007Nature has published an editorial collection looking back over its unique 138 year history. Visit www.nature.com/nature/history to read specially commissioned articles, use interactive timelines and watch video interviews with Nature’s previous editors and science historians. You can even nominate and debate your favorite papers, letters and oddities. Visit the site and gain a novel insight […]
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B – OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration14 November 2007Smith B, Ashburner M, Rosse C, Bard J, Bug W, Ceusters W, Goldberg L J, Eilbeck K, Ireland A, Mungall C J, the OBI Consortium, Leontis N, Rocca-Serra P, Ruttenberg A, Sansone S A, Scheuermann R H, Shah N, Whetzel P L, Lewis S. The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data […]
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B – Plagiarism and punishment14 November 2007Godlee F. Plagiarism and punishment. BMJ 2007;335 doi: 10. 1136/bmj.39392.602523.47 Plagiarism is listed, in the US Office for Research Integrity (ORI)’s definition of research misconduct, as one of the three high crimes of research fraud. The Commettee on Publication Ethics (COPE) lists 18 cases of plagiarism from 1998 to 2005, but is liklely that there […]
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B – Access all theses9 November 2007Banks, Michael. 2007 . Physics World 20(11)18-19.Argues that the time is ripe for a complete online database of PhD theses and that physicists should take a lead Posted for John Glen
