Sen. Grassley Prods Med Schools About Medical Journal Ghostwriting Practices
(Medicalnewstoday.com) Senator Charles E. Grassley wrote to 10 top medical schools to ask what they are doing about professors who put their names on ghostwritten articles in medical journals - and why that practice was any different from plagiarism by students, The New York Times reports. The inquiry is part… Read More
Here We Go Again! The Revised Google Book Settlement
(Information Today.com): A year ago, Google and its two major litigants, The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, announced they had settled their differences and filed a settlement agreement with the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York. Since then, a flurry of amicus curiae… Read More
Devices to Take Textbooks Beyond Text
(Nytimes.com): NEWSPAPERS and novels are moving briskly from paper to pixels, but textbooks have yet to find the perfect electronic home. They are readable on laptops and smartphones, but the displays can be eye-taxing. Even dedicated e-readers with their crisp printlike displays can’t handle textbook staples like color illustrations or… Read More
Why E-Book Readers Will Never Replace Books
(Wirednews.com): On the eve of next week's Copenhagen climate summit, the evidence couldn't be more embarrassing for proponents of global warming. Leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Hadley Climate Research Unit (CRU), one of the world's leading climate change research centres, indicate that prominent scientists cooked the books… Read More
Books: Hard Times for Publishers, Great Times for Readers
(Books.leadnet.org): U.S. readers have more options than ever before. Besides traditionally published books, with worldwide total at 65 million and counting – Google Books is making an amazing amount of them available online. Others are doing likewise: for example, the University of Michigan library is using some of the scans… Read More
Association for Learning Technology’s Open Access Repository now available
(vivavip.com): The Association for Learning Technology’s Open Access Repository that was formally launched at ALT’s annual conference ALT-C in September, is now available. The repository represents a long-awaited development in ALT’s work and services as it allows users to contribute assets and make them available via the repository. Since it… Read More
Ontologies to facilitate revolution in scientific publishing
(ontologyblog.blogspot.com): In an article published in the journal Science authors Allen Renear and Carole Palmer argue that ontologies will facilitate a revolution in scientific publishing whereby scientists will interact increasingly with the literature on a particular topic as whole and less frequently with entire, individual articles. The article entitled Strategic… Read More
Forty-nine percent of surveyed consumers unlikely to buy dedicated e-book readers
Dedicated e-book readers won’t be the easiest sell, according to Verso’s 2009 Survey of Book Buying Behavior — presented at DigitalBookWorld. On the positive, the overwhelming majority of owners say they do not pirate e-books. Participating were 5,640 respondents, 48% male and 51% female. Here are Verso’s questions and findings,… Read More
Canadian groups say Google Books agreement would violate international law
(thewirereport.ca): Canadian lobby groups have filed objections with the US court considering the proposed Google Books agreement, arguing that it violates international law such as NAFTA and the Berne Convention on copyright. Read More
FORTE Granted Permission to Publish Academic Paper Publishing Tutorial from University of Colorado
(newswiretoday.com): As part of program to educate Japanese scientists, Forte was granted permission from University of Colorado libraries, to translate and publish their on-line tutorial, which focuses on particulars of academic paper writing and publishing. University of Colorado granted permission to translate and divulge contents of its on-line tutorial for… Read More
