The American Journal of Surgery applies for BPA Worldwide business publication membership
(earthtimes.org): The American Journal of Surgery has applied for business publication membership in BPA Worldwide. The journal is published by Elsevier Inc. (New York, NY). BPA Worldwide will track circulation for The American Journal of Surgery based on business/distribution, demographics and geographic coverage. The journal will have 12 months to… Read More
Are Publisher Linking Networks Like 2Collab and Connotea Choking to Death on Spam?
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): Of all the plays in Web 2. 0 space, the one with what appears to be real workflow utility has been the notion of publisher linking networks like Connotea and 2Collab. They promised to make it easier to file research, discover related research, and engage in discussions about common… Read More
NRC to lay off 86 workers in April
The National Research Council is laying off 86 people as part of cuts announced last year to reduce costs at Canada’s leading research organisation. The layoffs begin in April and will affect employees at the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), the country’s national science library and leading… Read More
‘PLoS Medicine’ Bans Research Financed by Tobacco Companies
(chronicle.com): PLoS Medicine, an open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science, will no longer accept papers "where support, in whole or in part, for the study or the researchers come from a tobacco company," the journal's editorial board has decided. In a strongly worded editorial published online today,… Read More
Third International Conference on Digital Libraries address contemporary Issues related to development of digital libraries and their impact on changing the information paradigm
(businesswireindia.com): Digital Libraries (DL) are increasingly playing a vital role in business, research and education and facilitating ‘anytime, anywhere access’ to knowledge resources. They are emerging as a crucial component of global information infrastructure and resources that bring the physical library and information resources to users in digital form. This… Read More
Turning peer review into modern-day holy scripture
(spiked-online.com): The treatment of peer-reviewed science as an unquestionable form of authority is corrupting the peer-review system and damaging public debate. Peer review is a system that subjects scientific and scholarly work to the scrutiny of other experts in the field. Ideally it ensures that research is only approved or… Read More
Virtual Work Space for Academics Promises to Give Public Greater Accesses to Research
(rochester.edu): Despite the general enthusiasm for open access to academic knowledge through the internet, universities all over the country have experienced limited success getting researchers to post their work to online archives. Now the University of Rochester has created a virtual work space that not only gives academics the online… Read More
97 Percent Of Scientists Believe In Man-Made Climate Change
(newsjunkiepost.com): An overwhelming number of scientists in countries around the planet believe the science behind anthropogenic climate change. Although this is not reflected in the attitudes of many in the non-scientific general public, there is consensus among the experts who study the Earths climate. Read More
Government heeds concerns on science advice rules
(rsc.org): The UK science minister has indicated that the scientific community's concerns over guidelines regarding scientific advice in government have been accommodated in developing the proposals. At a hearing of the parliamentary science and technology committee yesterday, science minister Lord Drayson and chief scientific adviser John Beddington were quizzed over… Read More
SAE International and Eurospan Group Announce Sales Agreement
(sae.org): Mobility engineers and general enthusiasts across Europe, Africa and the Middle East will now have more access to SAE International’s most popular authored books through a new sales agreement with Eurospan Group. Eurospan Group is Europe’s fastest-growing independent marketing, sales and distribution agency for U.S. book publishers. Under the… Read More
