When Was the Last Time You Used a Print Dictionary?
I used to keep a small dictionary in my bedside table, another in the end table near the couch, one on my home office desk and another on my desk at work.
Information Culture
Thoughts and analysis related to science information, data, publication and culture.
An Introduction to Open Peer Review
Last post we talked about traditional peer review, which is at least single-blinded. This time we will focus on Open Peer Review (OPR). The narrowest way to describe OPR is as a process in which the names of the authors and reviewers are known to one another...
Health Bloggers Offer More Advice Than Criticism
My PhD mostly dealt with research blogs from ResearchBlogging.org (RB) an aggregator of blog posts covering peer-reviewed research. In this article, we (Prof.
Does the scientific journal have a future?
This summer, scholars will use the break from teaching to submit manuscripts, review papers and develop new ideas. But even as the major functions of scholarly publishing march on, scholars, publishers and librarians start to ask, "What does the future of the scholarly journal look like?" Perhaps we should be asking a different question...
How University Librarians Keep Busy During the Summer
While librarians at many academic institutions are considered faculty, many of them are also 12 month employees: we don't get the summer off.
Avoiding headaches when citing your sources
In the US, most colleges and universities will be finishing up spring classes about now, and final projects are coming due. The Works Cited section of a paper is typically left until last, and students often underestimate how much time it will take to put one together...
Who did what? Clarifying author roles benefits researchers, publishers and students.
Scholarly scientific publishing has a lot of traditions that are not transparent to the reader such as peer review or the non-payment of authors.
The Birth of Modern Peer Review
Peer review was introduced to scholarly publication in 1731 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which published a collection of peer-reviewed medical articles.
Frustration of the day: unclear article numbers
Over the past couple of days, I have been reviewing some citations for student projects. Several of the students submitted citations in which they expressed confusion over what page numbers to include...
Why I don’t buy print reference books
Last week, I was asked by an acquisitions editor at a publishing company to review a 2 page proposal for a new reference work that would be available in print and electronically.
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Anthropology in Practice
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Budding Scientist
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Cross-Check
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Dog Spies
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Extinction Countdown
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Hot Planet
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Illusion Chasers
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Life, Unbounded
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Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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Rosetta Stones
Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.
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Talking back
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The Artful Amoeba
A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
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Voices
Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
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