The Sad State of U.S. Publishing
(newmanpr.com): In the wake of the sudden closure of Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews magazines, it’s a good time to try and get a handle on just how poorly the U.S. publishing industry is doing. According to Crain’s New York Business, quoting MediaFinder.com, some 367 U.S periodicals shut down… Read More
How Journals Can Twist and Manipulate Vaccine Research
(foodconsumer.org): Effective drug companies’ marketing strategies have been convincing health care professionals and the public to change the laws. They can now sell their unproven and unsafe products in pharmacies, airports, college campuses, grocery stores and countless other outlets, despite the fact that three years ago, a study in the… Read More
Why Smart Publishers Care About Tech Conferences
(publishingperspectives.com): LeWeb, the largest technology conference in Europe, attracted nearly 2,400 attendees from 50 countries. Attendees represented a diversity of companies, from mobile carriers and device makers, to social media networks, small startups, and search providers — but very few from the publishing community. Why is that? Sure, the discussion… Read More
BMJ wants full clinical trial data
(earlham.edu): This week’s BMJ is dominated by a cluster of articles on oseltamivir (Tamiflu). Between them the articles conclude that the evidence that oseltamivir reduces complications in otherwise healthy people with pandemic influenza is now uncertain and that we need a radical change in the rules on access to trial… Read More
URISA Journal Marks Ten Years of Open Access Publishing
(directionsmag.com): Ten years after announcing that electronic copies of the URISA Journal would be made freely available to teachers and learners everywhere via the World Wide Web, the Journal’s electronic archives have become one of the richest collections of open educational resources in the geospatial field. As of December 2009… Read More
Google Will Digitise Approx. 1.6 Million Volumes from The Royal Library of Denmark
(cphpost.dk):While authors and publishers around the world are scared of Google's attempt to scan the world's libraries and make them available on the web, The Royal Library has agreed to let the search engine to do the job. The reason for the move is that Google is willing to put… Read More
Programming skills could transform librarians’ roles
(researchinformation.info): Recent ICT innovations have led to the reappraisal of our understanding of library and information services. The traditional vision of the library as a provider of physical documents has been superseded by the library as a provider of access to information – virtual and physical. However, to keep pace… Read More
Thomson Reuters develops solution to improve health information exchanges
(iwr.co.uk): Intelligent information provider Thomson Reuters has announced it is delivering a compehensive health information exchange (HIE) technology platform The solution will support the goals of health information professionals by enabling sharing patient data between stakeholders in order to improve decision-making when and where medical care is delivered - increasing… Read More
Library on the Go: A Focus Group Study of the Mobile Web and the Academic Library
(ala.org):This study explores student use of the mobile Web in general and expectations for an academic library’s mobile Web site in particular through focus groups with students at Kent State University. Participants expressed more interest in using their mobile Web device to interact with library resources and services than anticipated.… Read More
OA publisher to pay author royalties
(earlham.edu): Authors publishing with Sciyo in 2010 will be the first in academic publishing to receive royalties based on the number of downloads of their publication. For every 10 downloads, 0.2 euro will be accredited to author’s account on an annual basis. Sciyo's publishing fee of 470 euro is among… Read More
