Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 29 Oct 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (Competition, Value, and Sustainability - Why This Can't Go On); Joseph Esposito (Reclaiming the Lost Publishing Mojo); Jane Alfred (Open access: Delivering on its potential); James Hartley (Academic writing in old age: How retired academics can make considerable contributions to their institutions) and Rick Anderson (To Share Or Not To Share? | Peer to Peer Review). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.

Agriculture Sciences Category added to science social network ScienceAlerts - 26 Oct 2012 ScienceAlerts.com, a social network featuring information in the basic and applied sciences of biology, agriculture, environment, forestry, geography and health, has added the Agriculture Sciences Category with over 72,000 articles from over 350 scientific agriculture publishing sources. The members of ScienceAlerts monitor 5,718 journals and alert visitors in real-time through topic-specific site content and RSS feeds. Till now, 23,321 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,064,854 posts to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in a Sciences RSS Feed. The new Agricultural Sciences category currently features 72,018 posts exclusively selected from 357 scientific health publishing sources. The ScienceAlerts.com Agriculture Category covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It also provides an Agriculture RSS feed which is stated to be one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles features reintroduction of grazing management after deforestation of formerly abandoned grassland and its effect on early vegetation changes in the Western Carpathians (Slovakia). ScienceAlerts.com's rigorous review process is said to ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. The website includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its database. In addition, it suggests up to 10 related articles for each article selected.

Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - 22 Oct 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Todd A Carpenter (Does All Science Need to be Preserved? Do We Need to Save Every Last Data Point?); Joe Wikert (Publishing's "open" future); Kent Anderson (Recuse, Refuse, or Excuse - The Conflicts of Interest at the Heart of Funder-Backed Journals); Mike Shatzkin ("Platforms" are not exclusively the purview of Kindle, NOOK, and other retailers) and Bradley Voytek (There's something fishy about citations: We need a method of assessing the support of research if we want to change the 'publish or perish' culture). 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 - 15 Oct 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Rick Anderson (The Google/AAP Settlement: Less Than Meets the Eye?); David Phipps (Knowledge mobilisation is a social process: Social media can support individuals and organisations in research dissemination); Joseph Esposito (Why Are College Textbooks So Expensive?); Joe Wikert (Gamechangers: Two important announcements at TOC Frankfurt) and Keylingo Translations Blog (The Importance of Life Sciences Translation for Academic Publishing). 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 - 08 Oct 2012 The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Does Open Access Tackle, Perpetuate, or Exacerbate the Matthew Effect?); Eve Hardy (Scientific Misconduct, Not Error, Accounts For The Majority Of Article Retractions); Li-Shih Huang (There's a disconnect between "scholarly value" and how we reach audiences who need research); David Wojick (Quantifying OA Complexity) and Barry McIlheney (Publishers look beyond the print v digital debate). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.