E-books on the rise
Jane Easterly isn’t an e-book reader yet, but she said she’ll become one in the near future. The assistant director and reference supervisor at Galesburg Public Library has done a great deal of research and said she can see the benefits of electronic books.… Read More
It’s All Semantics: Searching for an Intuitive Internet That Knows What Is Said–And Meant
The Internet grew out of an idea to connect various and disparate sources of data, delivering to researchers around the globe unprecedented access to information via their computer screens. As e-Science evolves alongside Web 2.0, however, some are pushing for a … Read More
How Meaningful Are User Ratings? (This Article = 4.5 Stars!)
The impact factor has long been recognized as a problematic method for interpreting the quality of an author’s output. Any metric that is neither transparent nor reproducible is fatally… Read More
Bad History of Science from ID Proponents
ID proponents regularly fling around the idea that they are on the leading edge of a scientific “paradigm shift,” about to dramatically change the course of science by reimporting appeals to a designer into a framework that had previously been dominated by an ideology of “scientific materialism.” Alas, this depiction… Read More
What is original research?
Growth in web technologies and increased transparency in the literature - and data - may be contributing to a shift in our perceptions of what constitutes a prior publication. Innovative online journals with virtually unlimited space provide researchers with opportunities to produce novel (original) contributions to the literature that are… Read More
Revised Google Book settlement: what it means for OA
Google and the plaintiffs in the Google Book settlement released their revised settlement on November 13; see the proposed Supplemental Notice. The change most directly related to OA is this: The Amended Settlement provides that the Registry will facilitate Rightsholders’ wishes to allow their works to be made available through… Read More
Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility
Over the past decade, a good number of studies have attempted to demonstrate that open access journal articles have higher citation rates than traditionally published ones.1 These open access articles are either published in open access journals or are made publicly available through open access repositories. More methodologically sound studies,… Read More
The legal status of raw data: a guide for research practice
The opportunities opened up by ICT and the Internet are making access to research results and data broader and more open. It is increasingly possible to add to the text of a publication by enriching it with other materials, including the relevant research data. By making that data accessible, it… Read More
Founder Group to make Fanshu.com the largest digital library in China
Digital publishing solutions provider Founder Group is planning to build the largest digital library in China and expects digital publishing to account for 20 to 30 percent of its IT business in the near future. The group reported a total revenue of 45 billion yuan in 2008, about half of… Read More
HUBzero:
Facebook for scientists -- but built to facilitate serious research rather than socializing -- and an award-winning method for putting idle computers to work on scientific breakthroughs are Purdue-developed technologies in the spotlight at the SC09, the world's largest high-performance computing conference. Purdue University is highlighting the HUBzero and DiaGrid… Read More
