Does All Scientific Work Deserve Public Attention?
(wired.com): Isn’t science the aggregate of the work of numerous individuals? Isn’t science the summation of countless studies that build upon each other? Not every scientific paper needs to be communicated to the public. Heck, most papers don’t need to be. Why? Because most scientific papers don’t report major breakthroughs.… Read More
Monitoring Healthcare Market Trends With Outsell
(econtentmag.com): For the past few years, one could hardly turn on the television or open a newspaper without hearing about healthcare reform or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Outsell's David Bousfield has taken a deeper look at how content companies can use one to improve the other in… Read More
Moving science communication into the public sphere–how?
(scienceblogs.com): There has been much discussion about scientific papers being over-valued. Outreach is critical, especially in this age of increasing science denial and devaluation, it's unclear how scientists are to be rewarded for this, when there's already so much to be done when it comes to research, teaching, and other… Read More
Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries
(nytimes.com): A $4 million deal to run the three libraries here is a chance for the company to demonstrate that a dose of private management can be good for communities, whatever their financial situation. But in an era when outsourcing is most often an act of budget desperation — with… Read More
UK publishers continue to invest in new technologies
(brandrepublic.com): The UK digital publishing industry continues to invest heavily in emerging platforms and in creating more local and niche content, according to a new survey. The latest Association of Online Publishers (AOP) Content & Trends Census highlights current trends within UK publishing, thanks to its membership representing a broad… Read More
Reed Business Information gets sued for computer usage violations
(theinquirer.net): Reed Business Information (RBI) is getting sued for computer misuse by construction industry portal Bidclerk.com. The construction networking site alleges that RBI's computers were performing denial of service attacks on Bidclerk.com and that it orchestrated a coordinated "click fraud" scheme aimed at the portal's paid advertisements.. Read More
Gartner predicts strong growth for tablet market
(itpro.co.uk): Western Europe will account for 28 per cent of tablet sales this year, Gartner has claimed in its latest study. These figures were dwarfed by the US cut of the market at 61 per cent, but strong growth in the market will change this. By 2014, Gartner research vice… Read More
E-books, iPad, Kindle not the death of publishing
(cio.com.au): The publishing industry must embrace e-books and engage with the IT industry in order to reimagine book production, a Web development and publishing industry consultant expert has warned. Speaking at the Web Directions South 2010 conference in Sydney, Web developer and founder of publishing think tank PRE/POST, Craig Mod… Read More
Tighter ethics rules have reduced industrial relationship of NIH scientists
(scienceblog.com): The 2005 ethics rules that govern relationships between researchers within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other industrial companies have significantly reduced the prevalence of such collaborations without affecting standard measures of research productivity, according to a study in the November issue of Academic Medicine.… Read More
The Information-Seeking Habits of Engineering Faculty
(crl.acrl.org): Many studies of information-seeking habits of engineers focus on understanding the similarities and differences between scientists and engineers. This study explores the information-seeking behavior of academic engineering faculty from twenty public research universities. This investigation includes an examination of how frequently engineering faculty seek or access information, how they… Read More
