Now on ScienceBlogs: Oh, no! School wi-fi is making our kids sick! (2012 edition)
This is my blog on library and information science.
Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Any opinions expressed here may not even be her own and certainly do not represent those of any organization willing to be affiliated with her.
Where am I?
Category: scholarly communication
This APS rocks! Here's the press release from PAMnet: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APS ONLINE JOURNALS AVAILABLE FREE IN U.S. PUBLIC LIBRARIES Ridge, NY, 28 July 2010: The American Physical Society (APS) announces a new public access initiative that will give...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: scholarly communication
The authors thesis is that the only mandatory communication of results is in peer reviewed journal articles. Scientists aren't required to do other communicating and often leave communication to the public to the media. They ask if is this is...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:33 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
This article is in early view at JASIST. It looks like it comes from the author's dissertation. It isn't terribly earth-shattering, but it's well done, it provides more evidence, and there are definitely some implications for library/IR manager practice....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 12:12 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
The announcement is dated January 6, 2010, but the report itself is dated July 2010. In any case it's new to me, so I thought I would run through some interesting points. Here's the citation (as much as I can...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:55 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
One of the anti-PLOSone arguments is that its acceptance rate is too high at about 70%. Since I had my RK Merton compendium open to this article, I thought I would quote some bits to backup my argument that the...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:50 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Information Science
Nick Carr, quoted by the Readablity folks here, talks about hyperlinks as distractions - part of how the web screws up our brains. I was just browsing (couldn't possibly read this one from cover to cover) Nentwich (2003) and ran...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 11:03 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publishing
Besides watching this like the finals of Olympic hockey, I've been seriously impressed with the thoughtful and insightful commentary from a huge bunch of my libr* online contacts. Interesting stuff, too, from scientists and other folks interested in scholarly communication....
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: publishing
Read this (pdf). So the UC system has been screaming - they are totally cutting budgets, people, everything... And NPG has decided to hike their subscription renewal prices by 400%. So if the offer doesn't change, UC's going to fight...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:51 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: bibliometrics
Kevin Zelnio of Deep Sea News tweeted the title of this piece and sent my mind going over the various theories of citation, what citations mean, studies showing how people cite without reading (pdf) (or at least propagate obvious...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 9:10 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: scholarly communication
Many/most/all (?) scientists and engineers who have ever published anything anywhere are now being inundated with calls for papers (CFP). At least 3 have made it to my desk in the past month, forwarded from my colleagues who are curious...
Posted by Christina Pikas at 10:04 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
