Canada must fix `awful’ academic-integrity system: experts
(canada.com): Canada needs a system with much sharper teeth to deal with doctors and researchers who fake data, plagiarize and engage in research misconduct, says the country's leading medical journal. According to a recent editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, misconduct investigations are now cloaked in secrecy and… Read More
Lack of E-books on UK Bestseller List Causes Problems
(publishingperspectives.com): In a convincing post at The Bookseller, Scott Pack, publisher of The Friday Project, an imprint of HarperCollins, notes that the lack of e-book sales integration into the UK bestseller lists cases a “whole host of problems,” not the least of which is that it might undermine a books… Read More
Brand, Context, and Containers: Publishing Into and Across the Digital Network
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): As scholarly communications begins to move into new areas — into author-pays open access repositories, into linked data, into ebooks with embedded video, into short-form works — the argument for thinking of each product on its own, as a stand-alone product, diminishes. The strategy for maintaining economic control of… Read More
Tablets Are Money Spinners, But Less Than 5% Use Them Today
(paidcontent.org): Of all the wireless devices that have hit the market in the past several years, tablets present the biggest commercial opportunity for media owners, in terms of what consumers are willing to pay for and consume on the devices. But for now, that opportunity is, at best, a mid-to-long-term… Read More
EC Opens Cloud Computing Public Consultation
(eweekeurope.co.uk): The European Commission is seeking to gather views on the cloud to help it build its own cloud computing strategy. Interested parties are invited to contribute to the EC’s online public consultation, and have until 31 August 2011 to provide their input. Read More
California Internet Privacy Bill: Facebook, Google Explain ‘Strong’ Opposition
(huffingtonpost.com): A coalition of web giants including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Skype are opposing a landmark California bill seeking to drastically revamp social networking sites' privacy protections, arguing in a letter that the proposed legislation is unconstitutional, a threat to businesses and would actually decrease users' privacy. Bill "SB 242"… Read More
Paradigm shifting in scholarly communications
(openaccesscentral.com): A major thread in this conversation stresses the enormous potential of shared research data in facilitating experimental reproducibility and validation. Much ink has been spent in the past few years on the “data deluge” and the promise of new advances in science that are not based on the traditional… Read More
UK copyright review’s brightest idea ‘doomed to fail’
(telegraph.co.uk): The boldest idea in the Hargreaves review of the UK's copyright laws is 'doomed to fail', unless David Cameron ensures the creative industries participate, writes Emma Barnett. The Hargreaves’s report was commissioned by the Government last November in order to radically modernise the UK’s out-of-date laws and make them… Read More
The portal is dead; long live the portal
(fiercecontentmanagement.com): Entire crops of portals were lost due to poor requirements and incorrectly set expectations. Portals were all too frequently promised as the panacea that would solve an organization's information management, security or application integration issues in one clean install. Quite contrary to that expectation, portals more frequently ended up… Read More
A Point-Counterpoint on the Digital Public Library of America
(libraryjournal.com): The Digital Public Library of America initiative, led by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, has been gaining steam and has elicited a lively debate on the DPLA's discussion listserv about how any such institution should be constituted. David H. Rothman, cofounder of LibraryCity.org and… Read More
