A Comparison of Authorship Policies at Top-Ranked Peer-Reviewed Biomedical Journals
(archinte.ama-assn.org): In a highly competitive scientific environment, authorship decisions are important. Including authors who do not meet authorship criteria dilutes the merits of other authors and may lead to inappropriate academic advancement and have a corrupting and discouraging influence on research.1-2 To ensure the honesty of the scientific process, the… Read More
New Ways to Measure Science
(wired.com): For too long, the measurement of scientific contribution has centered on the publication. Whether through the number of articles, the citations those articles have by other articles, or even other far more complicated metrics, most scientists are still measured by a derivative of the research article, the basic technology… Read More
Publishers have stuffed up ebooks
(techeye.net): Publishers are stuffing up ebooks by handing them over to programmers rather than editors and layout artists. Ebook designer Chris Stephens, who created Alice iPad app, has said that major publishers have completely abdicated responsibility for producing the digital versions of their catalogues and it is all handed over… Read More
Could an iTunes-like model work with scientific publishing?
(scienceblogs.com): Many of you may remember a time when music-stealing was rampant on the internet. Apple changed this situation by establishing a new kind of marketplace. Now people pay for music and download it from iTunes. What if there was a third party group, with an iTunes-like model, where scientific… Read More
The Revolution Isn’t Just Digital
(americanlibrariesmagazine.org): The digital revolution in libraries is not exactly a secret. Every day we read about some upheaval in the ebook industry - a new development in digitization or yet another service from Google. And the recent announcement of an ALA-wide initiative on digital content and libraries, while important and… Read More
Benefits of paper still outweigh e-books
(dailybruin.com): A 2010 OnCampus Research Electronic Book and E-Reader Device survey found that 74 percent of students still prefer printed books over their digital counterparts, and only 13 percent of the students surveyed bought an e-book of any kind within the past three months. E-books really should be a no-brainer. Read More
Digital content demand rising as more Americans use mobile devices
(brafton.com): Content marketing plans should move full steam ahead as a report from Deloitte highlighted the growth of digital content consumption in the United States, with an increasing amount of Americans accessing content from multiple devices. Thirty-three percent of Americans would rather access books, magazines and news content on their… Read More
ARL Response to White House RFI on Public Access to Scholarly Publications
(arl.org): Enhancing public access to federally funded research results is a priority for ARL and its member libraries because such policies are integrally tied to and support the mission of higher education and scholarship. ARL believes that extending and enhancing public access policies to federally funded research to other science… Read More
Why E-books Are Turning the Library and Publishing Worlds Upside Down
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): If you ever wanted evidence that supply and demand aren’t the only forces in the economic game, now you have it. There may be an invisible hand, but there’s now a visible hand, and it’s throttling things back in the case of libraries and e-books. The visible hand is… Read More
What the decline of print means for digital
(imediaconnection.com): Print is in steep decline, and so is print advertising. It's important not only to ponder and understand why print is declining so precipitously now, but also to draw some lines into the future and understand how this trend might impact digital media going forward. The implications are big… Read More
