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| 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] |
| journals science publishing |
| Posted on Wednesday 26 August 2009 - 19:19:45 |
| There is no reason why this needs to be science-fiction |
| Peter Murray-Rust asks "Why should [scholarly] journals exist?" I answer: they don't have to: ...[more]  Inspired by PMR. Click for larger version. For free distribution and reuse. |
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| Posted on Tuesday 12 July 2011 - 17:17:07 |
| Clay Shirky: It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure. |
| Via Coturnix (see also FF): I'm resharing this as it pertains to the discussion of scientific publishing reform. Clay hits the nail on the head in that filtering at the source is now obsolete. In scientific terms, traditi...[more] |
| science publishing journals information filtering |
| Posted on Monday 20 October 2008 - 09:49:25 |
| Do you know how to manufacture a biface? |
| Just in case you don't know, a biface is a stone age tool. If you don't know how to make one, maybe you know how to forge damascus steel? No? How about using a slide ruler? A sextant? How about steering a horse carriage ...[more] |
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| Posted on Wednesday 02 September 2009 - 14:49:10 |
| An oligarchy of Mega-Journals |
| An oligarchy of Mega-Journals is what PLoS One publisher Peter Binfield envisages for the not-too-distant future of scholarly publishing. In his recent presentation at the Society for Scholarly Publishing meeting, embed...[more] |
| PLoS publishing journals mega-journals Binfield |
| Posted on Wednesday 08 June 2011 - 13:38:27 |
| Journal Impact Factors are silly and everybody knows it |
| I wasn't planning to write anything on Stephen Curry's latest piece on the negotiated, irreproducible and mathematically unsound Impact Factor sold by Thomson Reuters to gullible university administrators. I agree with m...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 14 August 2012 - 11:36:21 |
| There are cons to open acces? Really? |
| UPDATE: The piece in Nature is not, as I initially thought, a new article. It was already published in 2004, but for reasons only "the no. 1 weekly science journal" knows, it always has today's date attached to it and ...[more] |
| open access publishing publishers journals |
| Posted on Friday 24 August 2012 - 23:03:15 |
| Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine |
 via Bill Hooker.If you don't get it, because you spent the last few weeks in a cave or something, read here, here, here, here and of course here. UPDATE: Latest coverage: Bad Science!...[more] |
| Merck Elsevier science publishing journals |
| Posted on Monday 11 May 2009 - 09:46:01 |
| When even Impact Factors don't help any more |
| "Excellence Programs" are all the rage right now, especially here in Germany. In a widely publicized nationwide competition, our university (the Freie Universität Berlin) was awarded the title "Excellence University" - o...[more] |
| Impact Factor Cell Neuron journals publishing |
| Posted on Friday 30 October 2009 - 10:28:33 |
| Journals a threat to science? |
| "Universities get the publication process they deserve. They have the financial power to change it to suit the twenty-first century – they haven’t done so. They must.", says Peter Murray-Rust in his blog post on the Time...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 13 August 2009 - 17:03:43 |
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