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Finra, SEC rules constrain advisers in blogosphere
While blogs have today emerged as the quickest and easiest way to self-publish your content, some regulations such as FINRA and SEC consider blogs as mere advertising vehicles rather than discussion forums. According to industry experts because of disclosure and anti-fraud considerations, the information that advisers disclose on blogs requires the same compliance scrutiny as corporate press releases. While FINRA's existing rules categorize blogs as advertisements that require supervisory review, the Securities and Exchange Commission maintains that blogs should be treated as a company statement.
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Quality of Pharmaceutical Industry Press Releases Based on Original Research
Press releases are a popular vehicle to disseminate health information to the lay media. While the quality of press releases issued by scientific conferences and medical journals has been questioned, no efforts to assess pharmaceutical industry press releases have been made. This article by Bindee Kuriya of the Department of Rheumatology, University of Toronto; Elana C. Schneid of the Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto; and Chaim M. Bell of the Departments of Medicine and Health Policy Management and Evaluation, The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, seeks to systematically examine pharmaceutical company press releases about original research for measures of quality.
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Anthropology of/in Circulation: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies
In a conversation format, seven anthropologists with extensive expertise in new digital technologies, intellectual property, and journal publishing discuss issues related to open access, the anthropology of information circulation, and the future of scholarly societies. Among the topics discussed are current anthropological research on open source and open access; the effects of open access on traditional anthropological topics; the creation of community archives and new networking tools; potentially transformative uses of field notes and materials in new digital ecologies; the American Anthropological Association's recent history with these issues, from the development of AnthroSource to its new publishing arrangement with Wiley-Blackwell; and the political economies of knowledge circulation more generally.
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Digitizing Dissertations for an Institutional Repository: A Process and Cost Analysis
This paper by Mary Piorun, Associate Director and Lisa A. Palmer, Catalog Librarian, describes the Lamar Soutter Library's process and costs associated with digitising 300 doctoral dissertations for a newly implemented institutional repository at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Locally digitising dissertations or other scholarly works for inclusion in institutional repositories can be cost effective, especially if small, defined projects are chosen. A successful project serves as an excellent recruitment strategy for the institutional repository and helps libraries build new relationships. Challenges include workflow, cost, policy development, and copyright permissions.
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Open Access and Institutional Repositories: The Turkish Landscape
The development of the "Open Access" (OA) movement since early 1990s has been radically changing the scientific communication landscape. Within the last decade more universities and research institutions are recommending their scholars to make their works freely accessible through their web sites and/or institutional repositories (IRs). This article by Yasar Tonta of the Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University, defines the concepts of OA and IR and briefly reviews the current situation of IRs in Europe. It then chronicles the development of IRs in Turkey. The paper concludes with some recommendations.
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Differences in impact factor across fields and over time
The bibliometric measure impact factor is a leading indicator of journal influence, and impact factors are routinely used in making decisions ranging from selecting journal subscriptions to allocating research funding to deciding tenure cases. This paper looks at whether the impact factors are going up, what aspect of the impact factor provides the greatest contribution or explains the increase, and if the increase is different in different disciplinary categories?
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Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization
The digitization of millions of books under programs such as Google Book Search and Microsoft Live Search Books is dramatically expanding our ability to search and find information. This paper examines large-scale initiatives to identify issues that will influence the availability and usability, over time, of the digital books that these projects create. As an introduction, the paper describes four key large-scale projects and their digitization strategies.
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Managing Copyright for NIH public access: Strategies to ensure compliance
This report provides an overview of the NIH public access policy and the strategies involved to ensure compliance. It discusses in detail issues such as Author's Copyrights; and Strategies for Rights Management.
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Scientific Publications Strategy: Managing Reputation, Clinical Trial Results and Commercial Relevance
This report from pharmaceutical research firm Best Practices, LLC, notes that the landscape of scientific publications strategy, planning and delivery is changing with the advent of transparency guidelines. It further states that half of global publications groups are fully located in the marketing function, but publications leaders forecast a shift to medical groups to increase clinical presentation. The study included companies such as Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly and Merck.
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Open Doors and Open Minds
This white paper by Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and Science Commons assists institutions in adopting policies that ensure the widest practical exposure for scholarly works produced, such as that adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in February. The white paper is seen as a how-to guide for faculty, administrators, and advocates formulating an institutional licence grant that delivers open access to campus research outputs.
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Does metadata matter?
This is a 30 minute slidecast by Andy Powell (using 130 slides) covers a broad sweep of history from library cataloguing, thru the Dublin Core, Web search engines, IEEE LOM, the Semantic Web, arXiv, institutional repositories and more. The focus is ultimately on why Eduserv should be interested in 'metadata' (and surrounding areas), to a certain extent trying to justify why the Foundation continues to have a significant interest in this area.
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DRIVER: Building a sustainable infrastructure of (European) Scientific Repositories
This presentation was presented by Nobert Lossau, Scientific Coordinator Gottingen State and University Library, during the recently concluded LIBER Annual conference in Istanbul. Driver is a joint initiative of European stakeholders, co-financed by the European Commission, setting up a technical infrastructure for digital repositories and facilitating the building of an umbrella organisation for digital repositories. In his presentation, Lossau talks about the benefits of joining the Driver community and what are the further actions needed.
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Creative Commons Business Models
This documentary film by Frances Pinter and David Percy draws attention to business models in the publishing world that use Creative Commons licenses. Frances has been heading a CC-based publishing project in Africa, and Percy is an award-winning film-maker. The film is 30 minutes long, with three 10 minute interviews.
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What Can Universities Do to Promote Open Access?
What can universities do to promote open access? In this presentation, Open access leader Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College and Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), answers this question thorough and engaging lecture he recently at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet&Society. The talk, co-sponsored by the Berkman Center, Science Commons and Harvard's Center for Research on Computation and Society, gives a tour of five ways that universities can promote open access to research.
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Mandatory Open Access: Friend or Foe?
This presentation was made by Kent Holsinger at a public forum on the impact of recent developments in scholarly publishing. The event explored the newly passed NIH public access mandate which became law in December 2007. In his presentation, Kent Holsinger tries to balance what he sees as the pros and cons. In the end, he favors OA ("Open access is a friend who deserves our help and support"). Holsinger is professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, past president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and a member of the Board of Directors for BioOne.
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