Fear of corporate defamation lawsuits should not prevent medical journals from investigating corporate products - February 17, 2015
Fear of corporate defamation lawsuits should not prevent medical journals from investigating corporate products, according to a perspective piece published online February 16 in the Pediatrics journal. Joel Bakan from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues examined whether the fear of… Read More
Medical journals close their eyes when publishing research ruled fraudulent or misleading by FDA - February 16, 2015
Professional journals touting the latest developments in medicine have often ignored serious problems raised by federal health regulators with the research in question, according to a study. Charles Seife, a New York University journalism professor and the study’s author, reviewed 78 published papers on clinical trials with which the… Read More
Inaugural ‘2015 Best Chinese University Ranking’ report powered by Scopus data and SciVal analytics - February 4, 2015
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the inaugural and newly-released '2015 Best Chinese University Ranking' report, based on Shanghai Ranking Consultancy (SRC)'s evaluation, is anchored on its Scopus research database and powered by metrics from SciVal analytics – both part of the Elsevier Research Intelligence portfolio.… Read More
New whitepaper compares and contrasts linked data initiatives at OCLC and the Library of Congress - January 28, 2015
OCLC, the non-profit computer library service and research organisation, and the Library of Congress jointly released a whitepaper which compares and contrasts the compatible linked data initiatives at both institutions. The whitepaper is an executive summary of a more detailed technical analysis that will be released… Read More
Capturing growth and share in emerging markets will continue to be a key strategy for medical publishers, says new Simba report - January 27, 2015
Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released a new report 'Global Medical Publishing 2015-2019,' according to which, clinical-based publishing is projected to see some of its most rapid growth in Turkey, Chile, South Korea, Mexico, Greece and Great Britain. The… Read More
Almost half of IT staff in HE are not involved in the delivery of transnational education by their own institution overseas, says report - January 20, 2015
Almost half of IT staff in higher education (HE) are not involved in the delivery of transnational education (TNE) by their own institution overseas, according to a joint report by Jisc and the Observatory of Borderless Higher Education (OBHE). The research – which was designed… Read More
Digital Publishing Interest Group publishes Group Note of DPUB IG Metadata Task Force Report - January 12, 2015
The Digital Publishing Interest Group has published a Group Note of DPUB IG Metadata Task Force Report. The Metadata Task Force of the DPUB IG found, through extensive interviews with representatives of various sectors and roles within the publishing ecosystem, that there are numerous pain points… Read More
Sigma-Aldrich’s second annual ‘State of Translational Research Survey Report’ highlights challenges to reproducible science - January 6, 2015
Life Science and High Technology company Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, US, has issued the second annual State of Translational Research Survey Report, addressing challenges to the reproducibility of research within the academic translational research community. Sigma-Aldrich's report, based on a survey conducted in concert with the Association for… Read More
arXiv analysis finds that ‘text overlap’ clutters scientific papers - December 31, 2014
Computer text analysis of a huge database of scientific papers shows a large amount of 'text overlap,' where authors use text from previous papers of their own and others, not always with attribution. According to Cornell University Library researchers, this is not necessarily good or bad.… Read More
ARL releases Shared Print Programs, SPEC Kit 345 - December 29, 2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Shared Print Programs, SPEC Kit 345, which explores the extent of ARL member libraries' participation in concerted efforts among groups of libraries to collaboratively collect or retain print collections and provide access to them. The SPEC Kit… Read More
