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W – All-in-one search engine debuts in UK14 September 2007Infospace launched an all-in-one search engine called WebFetch. This engine combines top results from the biggest and best search engines including Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live search and Ask.com, along with smaller and more sppecialisic engines like blinkx and Kelkoo. Providing top results from various engines, WebFetch is said to search effectively the entire web, while […]
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B – eBooks now available on inter-library loan14 September 2007eBooks now available on inter-library loan. Research Information 2007; 30:28 The National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) and MyiLibrary, an eBook aggregator, have partnered to launch a new sevice called eBook Loans. This electronic version of the traditional library interlending model reduces the costs associated with processing interlibrary loans and […]
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B – Latin America provides new publishing opportunities14 September 2007Anscombe N. Latin America provides new publishing opportunities. Research Information 2007; 30:6. Duch marketing-services company Accucoms reported that Latin America presents many opportunities for publishers, highlighting the rapid growth in internet usage in that region. In Latin America online resources are becoming a significant part of libraries’ collections and librarians plan to invest in a […]
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B – Scientists are wary of open-access journals14 September 2007‘Scientists are wary of open-access journals’. Research Information 2007; 30:5. A recent study from researchers at University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the University of Munich, showed that researchers are reluctant to publish their research within open-access outlets, even if open-access publications have higher speed of publication and citation rates. According to this study […]
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B – Quality Journals and Gamesmanship14 September 2007Macdonald S, KamRing J. Ring o’ Roses: Quality Journals and Gamesmanship in Management Studies. Journal of Management Studies. 44(4): 640655 Academic performance is measured by papers in quality journals much more than contribution to knowledge. This article referes to management studies but most considerations equally apply to all fields of science. Paper production is a […]
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B – Association Between Funding and Quality of Medical Research13 September 2007Reed DA, Cook DA, Beckman TJ, Levine RB, Kern DE, Wright SM. Association Between Funding and Quality of Published Medical Education Research JAMA. 2007;298:1002-1009. . Methodological shortcomings in medical education research are often attributed to insufficient funding. In a recent report on the advancement of scientific research in education, the National Academy of Science recommended […]
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B – The information-seeking behaviour of doctors13 September 2007Davies K. The information-seeking behaviour of doctors: a review of the evidence. Health Information and Libraries Journal 2007; 24(2): 78-94. This paper provides a narrative review of the available literature from the past 10 years that focus on the information seeking behaviour of doctors, dividing it in three sub-themes: Information Needs of Doctors, Information Seeking […]
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B – Electronic journals and their unbundled functions in scholarly communication in Japan13 September 2007Kurata K, et al. Electronic journals and their unbundled functions in scholarly communication: Views and utilization by scientific, technological and medical researchers in Japan. Information Processing & Management 2007; 43(5):1402-1415 These days electronic journals are in common use in scholarly communication and we can say that scholarly communication is much dependent on electronic resources even […]
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B – Multiple publication on a single research study: Does it pay?13 September 2007Bornmann L, Daniel H D. Multiple publication on a single research study: Does it pay? The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine. Journal of the American Society for Information Science nad Technology. 2007; 58(8) Scientists often seek to report a single body of research in more than one publication, […]
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W – EASE – European Academy for Scientific Explainers13 September 2007We all know what EASE is, but did you know that there is another EASE on the web?? It is the European Academy of Scientific Explainers, representing a Genoa (Italy) based project involving many and various scientific centres throughout Europe. The Science Festival of Genoa http://www.festivalscienza.it/it/home.php proposes a training programme for graduates and researchers with […]
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B – Archiving challenges of scholarly electronic journals13 September 2007Galyani Moghaddam G. Archiving challenges of scholarly electronic journals: how do publishers manage them? Serials Review 2007; 33(2):81-90 Electronic achiving of scholarly journals in an important issue for libraries as the usage of electronic journals has increased significantly in recent years. Two of the most important issues in digital libraries are long-term preservation of electronic […]
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W – WorldWideScience.org the new global science gateway10 September 2007A new online global gateway to science information has now been opened by the US Department of Energy (DOE), the British Library and eight other participating countries. WorldWideScience.org uses federated search technology to give citizens, researchers and anyone interested in science the capability to search science portals that are not easily accessible through popular search […]
