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Christina Pikas Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
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Very cool - American Physical Society offers free access to public libraries

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...

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Hey maybe scientists should do more than just wait for their journal to issue a press release on their new fabu article

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...

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Across disciplines, what motivates or prevents faculty self archiving?

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....

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RIN’s Use and relevance of web 2.0 for researchers

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...

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Noting rejection rates for journals across disciplines (from 1967)

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...

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Hyperlinks support the type of reading scientists have always done

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...

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Nature Publishing Group and the University of California – Some pointers and thoughts

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....

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Holy Cow – University of California system may boycott all Nature Publishing Group Journals

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...

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Inappropriate citations?

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...

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Helping scientists deal with the onslaught of shady-sounding CFP

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...

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