Biowizard has launched PubMed Wizard. From today’s announcement: PubMed Wizard [is] an online resource enabling the universal open-access review of scientific and medical literature. For the first time, scientists have the ability to freely rank and discuss in real-time any of the more than 16 million published articles within the PubMed database.
Greater Midwest Region Medical Library Blog
[via Krafty]
Search engines increase online journal use more than open access
BMJ-Artikel (nicht frei) [via Dean via Krafty]
HighWire und Journal Usage Statistics
Nobody actuallys wants to pay for open access
T. Scott Plutchak’s sehr lesenswerter Kommentar über die PLoS-Erhöhung.
Fictitious rejection letter in 2056
Peer Review in 2056 – Enjoy!
It was soon noticed that the citation index of a study could be predicted from the technical review statistics, the quality quotient, […] using a seven dimensional neural network… Since we have been using our current system it has proved 98.3% accurate at predicting citation indices and in the years since its introduction has increased [our journal’s] own Impact Factor by an average of 6.4% year on year. This system also has the advantage of reviewing a paper in under a minute so that we now make a decision on 96% of all submissions within 24 hours.