Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 30 Apr 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Reproducibility - An Attempt to Test the Psychology Literature Underscores a Growing Fault Line); Joe Wikert (What if DRM Goes Away?); Phil Davis (Universal Citation Paper Lacks Universality); and Kevin (Harvard Libraries join the fight for open access). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 23 Apr 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Joseph Esposito (Thinking Through a Strategy for Digital Rights Management); Steve Johnson (More 'hybrid' academic and policy researchers are needed to increase effective communication between the political and academic spheres); Joe Wikert (DoJ: Consumer Hero or Predator Enabler?); David Crotty (Post-Publication Peer Review: What Value Do Usage-Based Metrics Offer?); and Cory Doctorow (Provocative proposal to force scholarly publishers to respect open-access wishes of their unpaid contributors). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 16 Apr 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Dan Scott (The system of subscription publishing is unsustainable: we need a 'mega-journal' with low article processing fees and peer review); Stephen Curry (Science must be liberated from the paywalls of publishers); Michael Cairns (Going Digital Doesn't Mean Lower Prices); Scott M. Fulton (Antitrust Suit: Does Amazon Have a Right to a Price Monopoly?); and Rick Anderson (The Portal Problem, Part 2: The Plight of the Library Collection). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.

ScienceIndex.com adds Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Sciences categories - 13 Apr 2012 ScienceIndex.com, a Web 2.0 sciences social network, has announced that it has added two new categories - Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Sciences. While the Industrial Engineering category covers the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, and equipment, the Mechanical Engineering category covers design, production, and use of machines and tools for generation and application of heat and mechanical power. ScienceIndex.com's Industrial Engineering Sciences category covers the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, and equipment. It currently contains 12,200 articles partly derived from nearly 100 scientific journals. The latest articles in this category are also available through an Industrial Engineering Sciences RSS feed. ScienceIndex.com's Mechanical Engineering Sciences category covers design, production, and use of machines and tools for generation and application of heat and mechanical power. It currently contains nearly 13,000 articles partly derived from almost 60 scientific journals. The latest articles in this category are also available through a Mechanical Engineering Sciences RSS feed. ScienceIndex.com currently contains over 1.44 million stories distributed among 75 categories. 75,777 users monitor nearly 8,400 journals covering the broad spectrum of sciences. They share about 2,500 new articles every day. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceIndex.com is no more than two days.

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 09 Apr 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Will We Be Ready When That Other Type of Disruption Comes?); Heather Morrison (The impact of funding agency open access policies); Katarina Lovrecic (Open Science on Quora: Why Are We Not There, Yet?); and Phil Davis (The (Post) Dating Game - Assembling the Evidence). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.