Deluge of scientific data needs to be curated for long-term use
(physorg.com): With the world awash in information, curating all the scientifically relevant bits and bytes is an important task, especially given digital data's increasing importance as the raw materials for new scientific discoveries. Data curation - the active and ongoing management of data through their lifecycle of interest to science… Read More
‘New Business Horizons Special Issue on US Healthcare
(elsevier.com): A recent Special Issue of Business Horizons, the journal of the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and published by Elsevier, addresses issues central to healthcare and life sciences. Healthcare reform, for example, has been at the center of U.S. political debate in recent years with renewed attempts to… Read More
Web Information Has Lasting Value Over Time
(koreatimes.co.kr): Reference to the Internet can't be avoided, as so much information is created and spread online. Digital information offers so much more than what offline newspapers or books can represent, reflecting the social phenomena. But, at the same time, as American inventor Daniel Hills described, people are now living… Read More
Is there such a thing as an objective science journal?
(dailycaller.com): Studies published in peer-reviewed journals become the basis for everything from the advice your doctor gives you to the very laws that govern us. A journal’s ability to tell good science from bad is critical. But some journals have used poor judgment, and even replaced judgment with a bias… Read More
GenomeQuest Wants to Be the Google of DNA Data Searches
(xconomy.com): A flood of new genetic data generated by advanced DNA sequencing systems has landed some life sciences researchers in a bit of information-management pickle. But this problem is a major opportunity for GenomeQuest and its competitors in the business of proving DNA analysis software. GenomeQuest aspires to do for… Read More
Ebrary Interface Available in Arabic
(ebrary.com): ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced that its world-renowned interface is now available in Arabic as well as English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Swedish. The new language option helps libraries, publishers, and other organizations that acquire content through ebrary or use the company’s… Read More
Libraries
(thebookseller.com): Libraries are among the services "most vulnerable" to widespread cuts across local councils, with a BBC survey estimating 25,000 public sector jobs could be lost around the country. More than 70% of the 49 councils that responded to the survey predicted spending cuts of between 5% and 20%. The… Read More
Google’s digital library faces key hurdles
(mercurynews.com): Sometime in the near future, a federal judge will decide whether Google can proceed with its plan to create a digital library and bookstore out of millions of old books scanned from libraries around the world. Google Book Search has already spawned a class-action lawsuit, and now, a surge… Read More
Internet history – should it be archived?
(government.zdnet.com): Among the many arguments for copyright and anti-counterfeiting law (ACTA) and piracy treaties, another debate has been slowly making its way to the surface that government will have to decide upon as policy. Should the ‘history’ of the internet be preserved? Spearheading this initiative are several organizations, among them… Read More
National Broadband Plan must lead to universal, affordable access, says ALA
(wo.ala.org): There are great opportunities proposed in the National Broadband Plan and still much important public debate facing the American public on these critical broadband issues. As the plan moves forward, it must lead to digital inclusion – not exclusion. Since libraries serve a critical role in today’s information society,… Read More
