Are medical research subjects adequately informed?
(naturalnews.com): When a person signs up to participate in medical research, he or she is given a form to sign that is supposed to state the goal of the study as well as all the known possible risks of the drug or procedure being tested. But a new report by… Read More
Why content will stay free
(kyivpost.com): There are those who believe that the era of free content is over and we are entering a new age of paid media. They are surely wrong. The fact is, that when these people say “free” they really mean “ad financed,” (which is how we’ve gotten most of our… Read More
Facing the Facts: University Presses in the Digital Age
(publishersweekly.com): The future is now: That’s the message university and scholarly presses received this past weekend at the annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses in Salt Lake City from June 17 to 20. The conference, titled “Toward a Sustainable Future,” conveyed a sense of urgency in dealing… Read More
Some European Publishers Embrace iPad, But Adoption Still Slow
(publishingperspectives.com): Apple may have announced that more than 3 million iPads have been sold worldwide since the US launch in April, but just a few weeks after the international launch of the iPad, it appears that many publishers in Europe are still choosing to exercise caution when it comes to… Read More
Roll-Up Computers and Their Kin
(nytimes.com): Today, digital readers are much cheaper and come with significantly better displays and storage space. But things are just getting started — like the price war that erupted last week between Amazon and Barnes & Noble that pushed the prices of their e-books below $200. Those e-readers are also… Read More
Twitter Settles Charges that it Failed to Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
(ftc.gov): Social networking service Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information, marking the agency’s first such case against a social networking service. The FTC’s complaint against Twitter charges that serious lapses… Read More
Report Urges More Curbs on Medical Ghostwriting
(graphics8.nytimes.com): Should more light be shed on the relationships between drug makers and certain prominent doctors who publish scientific articles about their medicines? A new Congressional report calls on medical journals, medical schools and even the National Institutes of Health to take additional measures to ensure the integrity of the… Read More
Audiobook Sales Increase in 2009
(audiopub.org): The Audio Publishers Association (APA) released the results of the Survey of 2009 Sales, conducted to evaluate trends and measure the growth of the audiobook industry. The independent research firm, Lewis&Clark, surveyed audiobook publishers and analyzed sales data from 2009, comparing current statistics against the previous years’ findings. It… Read More
Publishers continue their impact factor chase
(iwr.co.uk): After Thomson Reuters released the 2009 Journal Citation Report (JCR) with features including five-year Impact Factors (IFs), Eigenfactor metrics, rank-in category tables and journal “self-citations”, publishers have rushed in to lay claims on the influence and power of their journals in the academic world. Impact Factors are a method… Read More
Privacy Concerns Fail to Slow Social Activity
(emarketer.com): Facebook, which stirred consumer privacy worries in spring 2010 with its rollout of new opt-out initiatives, has not experienced an exodus of users, leaving many industry watchdogs wondering whether web users really do care about online security. According to a May 2010 study by privacy researcher the Ponemon Institute… Read More
