Journal publishes largest collection of scientific publications by Native Hawaiians
An interdisciplinary group of researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi teamed up with colleagues from other universities and several Native Hawaiian communities to compile conservation findings in a special issue of Sustainability that will be the largest collection of scientific publications made by Native Hawaiians. The group’s work focuses on… Read More
UVA Library, UVA Press partner to make original scholarship freely available
Students and parents often and understandably object to the high cost of textbooks, and colleges and universities also incur high costs to make academic research in scholarly journals available to students and faculty alike. It is a problem that affects everyone – students, researchers and scholars, the colleges and universities… Read More
ALA Annual 2011: Ebooks: New Strategy Required, Now
(libraryjournal.com): Not much has changed between publishers and librarians across the decades, one could argue. In 2011, they remain, at worst, two inflexible bureaucracies linked but at odds. But here’s some good news: they need each other more than ever as authors multiply and readers scatter, so it seems, far… Read More
Academic Publishers Experiencing Piracy of Online Products
(geekwithlaptop.com): The academic publisher SciFinder is being adversely affected by piracy, as their online products become illegally available for sale online. Other scientific publishers are also experiencing the effects of piracy, as clever hackers break into university accounts and sell illegal access to scholarly databases. Read More
Botanists shred paperwork in taxonomy reforms
(nature.com): Botanists will soon be able to name new plant species without ever physically printing a paper, as the code governing botanical taxonomy undergoes a major shake-up. At the ongoing International Botanical Congress (IBC) in Melbourne, Australia, researchers have agreed to drop the requirement for hard copies of papers describing… Read More
European Consultation on Scientific Information in the digital age
(blogs.openaccesscentral.com): The European Commission (EC) has announced a consultation on ‘scientific information in the digital age’. The consultation is running until September 9, 2011. The EC wants to hear opinion on the issues such as how scientific articles could become more accessible to researchers and society at large; how research… Read More
Did Apple Conspire with Book Publishers?
(businessweek.com): While everyone is consumed with deciphering how the bid by Google (GOOG) to acquire Motorola Mobility Motorola Mobility (MMI) will affect the dominance of Apple (AAPL) in the smartphone market, Apple has other fights on its hands. A class-action lawsuit contends that Apple illegally maintained high prices for e-books… Read More
Will There Be eBooks in the Afterlife?
(americaneditor.wordpress.com): Every once in a while we need to exercise our minds and imagine what our future will be like. We all know that at some point we need to say goodbye to our current existence and move on. Read More
Why Are Scientific Retractions Increasing?
(wired.com): Since 2001, while the number of papers published in research journals has risen 44%, the number retracted has leapt more than 15-fold, data compiled for The Wall Street Journal by Thomson Reuters reveal. Just 22 retraction notices appeared in 2001, but 139 in 2006 and 339 last year. Through… Read More
Make it easier to whistleblow while you work
(timeshighereducation.co.uk): Whistleblowers need more support when reporting falsified or flawed research carried out by university colleagues, leading scientists have claimed. Following the publication by the British Medical Journal of research suggesting that one in eight scientists and doctors in the UK has witnessed some sort of research fraud, a conference… Read More
