Posted in From other blogs, Open Access on Jun 26th, 2007 Comments Off
Peter Suber wrote:
From Mark Patterson, PLoS Director of Publishing, on the PLoS blog:
The 2006 impact factors have just been released by Thompson ISI. The first two PLoS journals continue to perform very well: 14.1 for PLoS Biology (14.7 in 2006); 13.8 for PLoS Medicine (8.4 in 2006). The PLoS community-run journals also received their first [...]
Posted in From other blogs, Open Access on Jun 26th, 2007 Comments Off
Peter Suber wrote:
Springer and Dutch library consortium to cooperate in open access initiative, a press release from the Dutch UKB (Universiteitsbibliotheken en de Koninklijke Bibliotheek), June 21, 2007. Excerpt:
The Dutch consortium of research libraries, UKB, and Springer have signed a letter of intent to the effect that they will jointly explore the potential of open access [...]
Posted in From other blogs on Jun 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Via eDrugSearch.com. David Rothman ist ganz vorne dabei - Congratulations! Insgesamt eine nützliche Liste, die bis Nummer 280 geht und verschiedene Wertungen von Google, Technorati und Bloglines verknüpft.
Posted in From other blogs on Jun 11th, 2007 Comments Off
Hinweis von Peter Suber auf ein neues Nature Angebot im Nicht-Peer-Review-Bereich.
Nachtrag: Nature Precidings ist nun online, wie der Nature Blog schreibt. Siehe auch den Beitrag von Lambert in netbib.
Posted in From other blogs, Publikationswesen on Jun 6th, 2007 Comments Off
Ab sofort sind unter www.thieme-connect.de sämtliche digitalen Lizenzangebote der Verlagsgruppe für Mediziner, Chemiker und Beschäftigte im Gesundheitssektor über ein einziges Portal verfügbar. Die Thieme-connect eNews kann man als RSS, aufgeteilt nach Medizin oder Chemie abonnieren. Außerdem gibt es ein Angebot für Bibliothekare.
Posted in From other blogs on May 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
[Thanks to Peter]
Elsevier’s hybrid or sponsored-article journals promise to reduce their subscription prices in proportion to author uptake of the OA option. (”We do not plan to charge subscribers for author sponsored content.”) But at the same time they raise their subscription prices every year, as usual. How does this net out?
William Walsh has [...]
Posted in From other blogs on May 2nd, 2007 Comments Off
[Thanks Dean]
Eugene Barsky at UBC Physio blog and I are offering an introductory workshop on social software at the 2007 Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA/ABSC) conference in Ottawa. We would be remiss if we didn’t use social software ourselves - blogs, wikis and podcasting software, not to mention RSS feeds -…
Posted in From other blogs on Apr 2nd, 2007 Comments Off
Mitglieder der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeinmedizin und Familienmedizin (DEGAM) und des Deutschen Netzwerk Evidenzbasierte Medizin e.V. (DNEbM) machen sich Gedanken zu der Verbandelung von Elsevier mit der Waffenindustrie.
Sollte sich der Konzern in dieser Angelegenheit nicht bewegen, wird zu einem Boykott aller Elsevier-Zeitschriften aufgerufen.
Die Elsevier-Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen ist ein [...]
Posted in From other blogs on Mar 5th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to Peter Suber
Jack W. Smith, Issues Related to Open Access and Clinical Data Repositories, a public lecture at Rice University, March 2, 2007. The lecture will soon be available as a webcast.
Posted in From other blogs on Mar 5th, 2007 Comments Off
Die diesjährige Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Medizinisches Bibliothekswesen (AGMB) findet vom 24.09. - 26.09.2007 in Ulm statt. Das Tagungsmotto lautet “Medizinbibliotheken mitten im Zentrum von (E-)Learning, Forschung und Patientenversorgung”.
Nähere Informationen finden Sie unter: http://www.agmb.de
Posted in From other blogs, Publikationswesen on Feb 27th, 2007 Comments Off
[Thanks to Peter Suber]
The ARL has published an Issue Brief on Wiley’s acquisition of Blackwell, February 26, 2007. Excerpt:
This document briefly outlines the growing dysfunction in the journal market resulting from the exercise of market power by an ever-shrinking group of large commercial publishers….
This planned consolidation within an already concentrated market immediately raised concerns within the [...]
Posted in From other blogs, Publikationswesen on Feb 26th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to Peter Suber:
Jan Velterop, Failing business models, The Parachute, February 22, 2007. Excerpt:
…The subscription system has the following problems (and quite possibly more) [PS: numbers added]:
The price to readers/libraries bears no relation to quality….
The price to readers/libraries bears no relation to the amount per article that’s taken out of the academic market. A ‘cheap’ [...]
Posted in From other blogs on Feb 26th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks Peter Suber: William Walsh has a detailed summary of Elsevier’s lobbying activity in the US during 2006. His summary is based on a report from the Center for Public Integrity, using data from the Senate Office of Public Records.
Bottom line: in 2006, Elsevier spent $2.84 million on lobbying Congress. That’s less than it spent in 2005 but [...]
Posted in From other blogs, Open Access, Weblogs on Feb 20th, 2007 Comments Off
[Thanks OAN] BioMed Central has started a blog, although it’s still in a pre-launch phase. Today, for example, BMC Publisher Matt Cockerill posted a note about the Brussels Conference, and included a link to his own presentation, Open Access publishing works.
Posted in From other blogs on Feb 20th, 2007 Comments Off
[Thanks to Krafty] Scott Adams liest wohl auch BMJ: Googling for a diagnosis. If you haven’t seen this on Medlib-l today you might want to have a look and laugh.
Posted in From other blogs on Feb 20th, 2007 Comments Off
The Krafty Librarian blog has moved to http://www.kraftylibrarian.com. Please change your bookmarks and update your RSS feed.
Posted in From other blogs, Google, Zukunft on Feb 20th, 2007 Comments Off
Larry Page, the co-founder of Google was talking to a group of scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and mentioned that they were working on developing true Artificial Intelligence. “It’s not as far off as people think” according to Page. He also noted that human DNA represents about 600MB of data [...]
Posted in From other blogs on Feb 13th, 2007 Comments Off
Wow! Das - faszinierende, aber immerhin hilfreiche - Ergebnis von Yahoo Pipes seht ihr rechts ->
[Thanks to David!]
Posted in From other blogs, Medline on Feb 1st, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to Peter Suber:
Over at Journalology, Matt Hodgkinson reviews a group of third-party tools for searching or mining PubMed.
Posted in From other blogs, Web2.0 on Jan 29th, 2007 Comments Off
Thanks to Lambert:
Obwohl Oliver & Co. dieses Thema bereits abdecken, möchte ich auch hier immer mal wieder auf die rasche Verbreitung und intensive Nutzung von Social Software im Bereich der medizinischen Fachinformationen hinweisen. Die Kollegen Medizinbibliothekare sind dem Rest der Zunft voraus, was solche Entwicklungen angeht. Langer Rede kurzer Sinn, David Rothman zählt in [...]
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