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Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
Information Today September 13, 2012 |
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies |
Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified? |
Information Today July 2, 2001 Robin Peek |
Current Science Group, Elsevier Science Offer New Science Services In an effort to demonstrate that publishers can be just as nimble and creative as new efforts like PubMed, two of them have just announced new services for scientists... |
Information Today February 13, 2012 |
Elsevier Launches TargetInsights for Early Drug Discovery This online decision support tool enables scientists to search, monitor, and stay up-to-date with the latest biological insights reported in the scientific literature. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The work of the Digital Library Federation's Assessment Interest Group... Fifteen years of interoperability efforts... Scenario-based learning in training library staff... |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
Chemistry World February 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Computers Learn Chemistry Chemists who trawl through the thousands of chemistry papers published every month must wish their computers could do the job for them. Well, maybe one day they will. |
Chemistry World September 2, 2013 Derek Lowe |
The never-ending story If you get chemists in a confessional frame of mind, they'll probably tell you that they really don't read the current journals as well as they ought to. |
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Open Access Wide Open Open-access publishing has been heralded both as the savior of scientific literature and the death of publishing, but after less than a decade of the practice, its impact remains uncertain. |
Information Today February 25, 2014 |
NPG Opens Archives to French Researchers Nature Publishing Group partnered with ISTEX, a project from France's Ministry of Higher Education and Research, to offer scientific resources to more than 1.9 million French researchers, students, and scientists at 200-plus institutions. |
Information Today January 7, 2002 Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Begins Charging Authors and Their Institutions for Article Publishing Starting this month, BioMed Central, the "publishing company committed to a policy of free access to scientific research" (as it describes itself), will introduce a processing charge for articles published in its nearly 60 online journals... |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 Knoth et al. |
Guest Editorial A significant proportion of the new approaches presented in this issue address a wide range of problems in extracting structured information, and even detailed semantics, from research papers. |
Information Today April 2004 Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
D-Lib May 2003 Tenopir et al. |
Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists through Three Evolutionary Phases This article provides some evidence of how scientists' information seeking and reading patterns are affected by using journals in three system phases. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2012 McMahon et al. |
Social Awareness Tools For Science Research Tools for social networking and social awareness are developing rapidly and evolving continuously. They are gaining popularity in a growing number of professional as well as personal activities, including scholarly research. |
D-Lib December 2008 Tenopir & King |
Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns Electronic journals have resulted in a narrowing of scientific citation patterns. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
U.K. Parliamentary Committee Holds Hearings on Scientific Publishing On March 1 and 8, the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee held the first two days of hearings as part of its inquiry into the pricing and availability of scientific publications and possible government support for open access publishing. |
Searcher December 2000 Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
Information Today February 2002 Dick Kaser |
Ghost in a Bottle The ghost is out of the bottle. That's how Derk Haank describes the current situation in which the authors of scientific papers are taking an increasing interest in who publishes them.... |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
D-Lib January 2004 Jonas Holmstrom |
The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed. |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Information Today September 5, 2000 Barbara Quint |
CrossRef, CAS, DataStar Announce Links to Scholarly Publications The network of links to and from scholarly publications continues to grow rapidly... |
Reactive Reports Issue 62 David Bradley |
Robert Parker The appointed Managing Director of Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing discusses the future of chemistry publishing |
Information Today December 2003 |
Product News and Reviews Elsevier Announces ScienceDirect News... ProQuest Unveils New Archiving Program, Los Angeles Times Backfile... Ingenta Continues Growth Across Publisher Services... etc. |
Information Today March 2003 Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Information Today November 19, 2012 Barbie E. Keiser |
Springer Gets Reference Manager Papers Papers acts as a repository for digital academic documents in one's personal library, accepting 85 different types of documents, including books, articles, web pages, patents, reports, etc. |
Chemistry World February 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Fraudulent scientific results can terrorise a company's patent claims. Chemical patents have (especially among academic researchers) a reputation for unreliability and deliberate obscurity. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2005 Moss & Solomon |
Teaching the Fourth `R' of Science Education: Research A partnership program between the Bronx High School of Science and Elsevier introduces students to the world of scientific research through ScienceDirect. |
Information Today October 22, 2012 |
Thomson Reuters Adds Web of Science Content to Patent Prior Art Research Tools Access to patent content, scientific journals, conference proceedings, business data, and news information are critical in the quest to determine if an idea is unique and has potential for further development. Thomson Innovation enhancements make this quest much easier. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2013 Laurence Lannom |
Science, Publishing, and Digital Libraries (Again) The five articles in our September/October issue were all presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications. |
D-Lib June 2006 Wojick et al. |
The Digital Road to Scientific Knowledge Diffusion: A Faster, Better Way to Scientific Progress? A discussion of issues and description of research being conducted by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information of the United States Department of Energy under its strategic initiative, Innovations in Scientific Knowledge and Advancement. |
Information Today January 2005 Richard Poynder |
Interview with Vitek Tracz: Essential for Science Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, the chairman of the London-based Current Science Group has become a powerful advocate for open access. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2012 Knoth et al. |
Special Issue on Mining Scientific Publications Digital libraries that store scientific publications are becoming increasingly important in research. They are used not only for traditional tasks such as finding and storing research outputs, but also as sources for discovering new research trends. |
Information Today April 10, 2006 Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Half of all papers from 2011 are open access Open access publishing is growing far faster than previously thought, according to a new report prepared for the European commission. The sample included material from online databases, such as Scopus and PubMed, as well as the websites of publishers, institutions and researchers. |
D-Lib June 2004 Donald W. King |
Should Commercial Publishers Be Included in the Model for Open Access through Author Payment? If open access by author payment is in fact an optimum model, there must be some way to demonstrate it other than by the trickle approach now taking place. |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
Bio-IT World Jul/Aug 2006 Kevin Davies |
Science Publishing and the Web Several technologies are poised to radically change the ability of scientists to share data and develop ideas both within and between organizations: Nature Network Boston... PLoS ONE... |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The changes in both scientific journal and data publication, too slow for some, too fast for others, continues to accelerate. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2013 Knoth et al. |
Scientific Publications: Gathering Data, Extracting Information, and Following Trends Digital libraries that store scientific publications continue to be increasingly important in research. They are used not only for the traditional tasks of finding and storing research outputs, but also as data sources for mass automated processing. |
Information Today December 2005 Jim Ashling |
Sites Unseen: Spies 'R' Us and More Britain's Secret Intelligence Service launches a new website... European Association of Information Services re-registers website... Frankfurt Book Fair grows in attendance and exhibitors... Publishers get monetary support from Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) open access program... etc. |
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley |
Reactive Profile--Bryan Vickery, Chemistry Central Having ruined too many pairs of jeans, this chemist opted for a desk job instead of a bench job. He is currently Publisher at BioMed Central with special interest in Chemistry Central. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2011 Eefke Smit |
Abelard and Heloise: Why Data and Publications Belong Together We advocate good collaboration across the whole information chain of authors, research institutes, data centers, libraries and publishers. DataCite is an excellent example of how this might work. |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |