Ulrich Herb: „Schöne neue Welt des Open Access – Journale, Impact Factor, radikale Monopole und Karrieren“ Telepolis, September 15, 2006. Teil 1 und Teil 2 [Thanks OAN]
Nature adopts Open Peer Review
The experiment of the weekly journal Nature with Open Peer Review seems to be a success, according to Matt Whipp, Nature journal puts blogging into peer reviews, PC Pro, September 15, 2006[Thanks OAN]
The Trouble with Medical Journals
The Trouble with Medical Journals by Richard Smith (BMJ-Editor), Royal Society of Medicine, October 2006, is now on pre-order at Amazon. [Thanks OAN] Aus einem Review:
Medical journals have become „creatures of the drug industry“ rife with fraudulent research and packed with articles ghost written by pharmaceutical companies
ALPSP/STM white paper on scientific publishing
Scientific publishing in transition: an overview of current developments, a white paper from ALPSP and STM. [Thanks OAN]
Text&Blog berichtet über die Inetbib-Tagung und Web 2.0
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T.Scott about FRPAA
The US law initiative FRPAA was discussed earlier in this blog. T.Scott used the widespread letters of pro and cons for arguing about the fate of scientific societies and on what side a librarian should stand.