World’s store of data calculated
(annenberg.usc.edu): A study appearing Feb. 10 in Science Express, an electronic journal that provides select Science articles ahead of print, calculates the world’s total technological capacity — how much information humankind is able to store, communicate and compute. Compared to nature, we are but humble apprentices. However, while the natural… Read More
Scholarly Reportage: Fad or Movement?
(insidehighered.com): We are now witnessing a trend that is offering academics a mode of engagement that might just have a lasting impact on the place of the intellectual beyond academia. In short, it might be a movement precisely because it offers a replicable method. Read More
Sharing Data in Biomedical and Clinical Research
(sciencemag.org): There has been vigorous discussion in the scientific literature about the need and value of sharing full data sets from biomedical and clinical research, but it's rare to see the issue get headlines in the mainstream media. In August, an article in The New York Times put the spotlight… Read More
Facebook — for scientists
(mndaily.com): Between the steep costs of journal subscriptions, the obscurity of the ivory tower and the mass of bad research that gets published, scientists have reason to lament the lack of openness in their field. To get back the essence and force of great ideas that sometimes get drowned out,… Read More
How India uses Mobile Applications
(penn-olson.com): India has a long history in the mobile application market. Right from the introduction of the revolutionary iPhone that opened gate for Apple’s mobile application store in India to Android and Ovi application markets; mobile applications have come a long way. How about mobile usage behavior? A study by… Read More
From eBooks to the iPad: How is Device Proliferation Driving User Demand While Changing Behavior?
(tmcnet.com): Cloud services offer benefits for consumers, businesses and service providers alike. On the consumer and business side, the benefits are obvious: who wouldn’t love robust applications delivered over the internet via a pay-as-you-go pricing model? For service providers, the demand for cloud applications provides an obvious opportunity to increase… Read More
China’s Fight Against Academic Fraud – Still A Long Way to Go
(english.cri.cn): China's recent revocation of a national scientific award due to academic fraud has been welcomed by the public, but experts warn the country still has a long way to go to bring an end to such dubious academic practices. On Feb. 1, China's Ministry of Science and Technology, revoked… Read More
How to use Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) in your blog posts
(blogs.plos.org): One of the annoyances with bibliographies as we use them for scholarly papers is that is usually unclear why a particular paper was cited. It is often possible for readers to gather this information by looking at the citation in the context of the surrounding text, but this is… Read More
China’s e-Book and Digital Reader Markets Grow, while Legal and Technological Protections of Copyright Provide a Welcome Assist
(mondaq.com): As much as one may love to sit down with a nice hardcover book from one's favorite author, those days are changing, like much else in our lives in the digital age. The transition from obtaining information via traditional books to digital readers is growing around the world. It… Read More
Will Ebooks Jeopardize the Book Industry’s Carbon Reduction Goals?
(triplepundit.com): The shift towards ebooks is having a significant influence on every part of the book industry, from publishers working to reinvent their value proposition to brick and mortar bookstores fighting for their future. But what about the carbon footprint of the book industry? Does this shift represent an opportunity… Read More
