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| Impact factor receives yet another blow |
| 2008 is only about half way over and it's already been a devastating year for monopolist Thomson Scientific, formerly Institute for Scientific Information, ISI. First, the company's ...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 26 June 2008 - 11:02:00 |
| Transparent peer-review can incentivize Science 2.0 |
| The most interesting presentation at the Berlin Open Access Days yesterday was the one from Max Planck geochemist Ulrich Pöschl. He was telling us about the success of his open access journal ...[more] |
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| Posted on Friday 10 October 2008 - 17:15:19 |
| Learning confusion |
| The February issue of "Educational Leadership", the journal of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) features a discussion on how we learn to read. The interesting component of this discussion...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 12 March 2007 - 20:06:33 |
| Non-obsolete function of journals discovered |
| I discoverd the function this morning, browsing through results from a literature search. And let me emphasize, it's not obsolete, yet. This function may be totally obvious and trivial to you, but it struck me as notewor...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 26 August 2009 - 19:19:45 |
| The future of scientific publishing |
| I'm sure nobody ending up on this obscure blog could have missed the current frenzy about a Nature news article by Declan Butler attacking PLoS. In the meatime, there has been a ...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 07 July 2008 - 14:41:05 |
| 'Supplement' is an anachronistic pejorative for 'essential information' |
| Today's scholarly publishing system is full of anachronisms. While people still dwell endlessly on such prominent anachronisms as journal rankings, so far only few people are debating the anachronism of the widespread de...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 28 January 2010 - 13:39:57 |
| Journals - the dinosaurs of scientific communication |
| The recent kerfuffle caused by Butler's article in Nature seems to have gotten quite a number of stones rolling. What I thought would be a rather slow process seems to be speeding up considerably because of Nature's rath...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 19 July 2008 - 19:13:40 |
| Post-publication paper assessment |
| There has been an interesting discussion going on at the message board for editors of PLoS One. I've posted a comment to this discussion I thought may be interesting to others as well. Here it is (slightly edited): I may ...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 21 July 2008 - 17:55:28 |
| rank papers at PLoS One |
The revolutionary open access journal PLoS One has now implemented user rating. In what is a first in scientific publishing, you can now rate scientific papers on a 1 to 5 scale in three categories:
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| Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2007 - 15:27:02 |
| Elsevier's on a run - towards more bad PR that is |
Publishing giant Elsevier is really on a non-stop campaign for bad PR lately:
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| Posted on Wednesday 24 June 2009 - 09:30:44 |