Soon, it may be publish or perish for medicine students
(indianexpress.com): Publishing quality medical research should be made a required condition for postgraduate students of medicine, India’s medical qualifications watchdog has recommended. The postgraduate committee of the Medical Council of India (MCI) recommended last month that in order to be eligible to write their exams, postgraduate students must, as part… Read More
What We Talk About When We Talk About Repositories
(Rusq.org): “Institutional repository” (IR) often refers to a service that supports and encourages the deposit of student- and faculty-created materials, primarily open-access versions of research articles that have been formally published elsewhere or not at all. The early energy surrounding IRs centered on a hope that promoting open access could… Read More
Access to research content is poor despite technological progress
(Information world review): RIN’s study Overcoming barriers: Access to research information content found that researchers are encountering difficulties in accessing content they need and this in turn has a significant impact on the quality of their research. If the UK research community is to operate effectively and produce high quality… Read More
More Publications Moving To Digital Only
(ohmynews.com): The Online Information show at Olympia earlier this month coincided with a decision by the Guardian newspaper to cease print publication of the Technology supplement. From next year this will be available online only. So far there has been very little comment about this except for some extracts from… Read More
The 100 Most Influential Journals
(archopht.ama-assn.org): The Special Library Association is celebrating its centennial in 2009 by recognising the essential partnership between information producers and information managers, ie, special librarians. The Biomedical and Life Sciences Division (DBIO) of the Special Library Association decided to mark the occasion by conducting a poll of its 686 members… Read More
Twitter Tapping
(nytimes.com): The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters. A public interest group has filed a lawsuit to learn more about this monitoring, in the hope of starting a national discussion and modifying privacy laws as necessary for… Read More
Wikipedia as Elite Propaganda Mill?
(beforeitsnews.com): The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm. The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began… Read More
Forget E-Books: The Future of the Book Is Far More Interesting
(fastcompany.com): It's the end of the book as we know it, but it won't be replaced by the e-book, which is, at best, a stopgap measure. Sure, a bevy of companies are releasing e-book readers-there's Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and a half dozen other chunks of not-ready-for-primetime hardware.… Read More
The ‘science’ mantra in global warming fight
(pittsburghlive.com): Like anything valuable, science has been seized upon by politicians and ideologues and used to forward their own agendas. Today, politicized "science" has too big a stake in the global warming hysteria to let the facts speak for themselves. People who talk about the corrupting influence of money seem… Read More
Google vital for Chinese scientists
(cbc.ca): A survey of scientists in China has found that a large majority of them use Google in their research and their work would be hampered if the search engine left the country. A Chinese Google user lays flowers outside Google China headquarters in Beijing in January. (Vincent Thian/Associated Press)… Read More
