Sharing research data to improve public health
(blogs.openaccesscentral.com): Advances in information technology have revolutionised science by enabling researchers to freely and openly share large datasets with investigators beyond the original research team. Whilst data sharing is now the norm in fields such as physics and genetics, a number of obstacles including time and cost constraints, in addition… Read More
For Magazines, a Bitter Pill in iPad
(nytimes.com): The frustration that the country’s magazine and newspaper publishers feel toward Apple can sound a lot like a variation on the old relationship gripe, “can’t live with ’em, may get left behind without ’em.” Since Apple introduced the iPad last year, publishers have poured millions of dollars into apps… Read More
World web wars
(moneycontrol.com): Recently, Facebook launched features that seem designed to hit Google where it hurts: An alliance with Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which shows your friends’ movies, books or other items you search and a tie-up with Skype, which directly competes with Google Talk’s voice chat. In early November, a frustrated… Read More
World’s largest medical student organization throws weight behind Open Access
(righttoresearch.org): In a move that demonstrates the building global momentum for student commitment to Open Access, the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) today announced its membership in the Right to Research Coalition, an international alliance of undergraduate and graduate student organizations that promotes a more open scholarly publishing… Read More
Tablet publishers still trying to find the missing link: subscribers
(theage.com.au): The fortunes of the few US magazines which release tablet edition data show why a solution is critical. Wired sold 73,000 iPad copies in nine days when it launched in May soon after the iPad did, according to audit figures reported by The Guardian, but sold just 23,000 copies… Read More
Google Cracks Down on Spammers and Scrapers
(wired.com): In a move that internet content creators have been dreaming about for years, web search giant Google has moved to crack down on spammy and derivative content that has been largely copied from other sources on the web and which somehow manages to bubble higher in results than the… Read More
If science can’t be trusted, what can?
(thetrumpet.com): Some high-profile scientists are making a startling assertion: Science isn’t really science at all. All too often it is more like a combination of voodoo statistics, snake-oil salesmanship and big business. Read More
Top 5 App Tips for Magazine Publishers
(minonline.com): At this week’s (Jan. 25) min Webinar, "Apps 2.0 for Magazine Brands," three seasoned magazine app developers shared with attendees some of the lessons learned from these early days of branded mobile media. Ulla McGee, VP, business development and mobile, PCWorld/Macworld, Matt Bean, AVP, mobile, social & emerging media,… Read More
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(scienceblogs.com): Standard definitions of science emphasize not only logic and reason and empiricism, but also a set of processes, some specific to an investigator, and some dependent on a community of scholars. Those processes impose some limits: an inability to evaluate claims that either produce no empirical results (e.g., the… Read More
OPDS: RSS for ePub or how to distribute ePub files
(blogs.plos.org): ePub is a great format for scholarly content, and there are a number of tools to create ePub files. But creating content is only half the story, at least as important is an easy mechanism for distribution. This is particularly true if your ePub files are not books, but… Read More
