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Journals’ Ranking System Roils Research
This is a very revealing article by Gautam Naik that appeared in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago. It vividly shows how both journal publishers and scholars can game the system and misuse the “impact-factor ranking” to their own advantage. In fact, the article seems to sum [...]
Read More... →On Not Settling for Innovation | Peer to Peer Review
Strayed “outside the box” once too often? Occasionally been nicked up out on innovative “cutting edge”? If so, this article by Rick Anderson will strike a chord.
First off, Rick is not saying that innovation and bright shiny new things are bad. Far from it. [...]
Read More... →Peering Into the Exquisite Life of Rare Books is a fascinating article from the NY Times that highlights the “five weeks each summer” when “Rare Book School brings some 300 librarians, conservators, scholars, dealers, collectors and random book-mad civilians together for weeklong intensive courses” on the ins and out of the antiquarian [...]
Read More... →Scholarly eBooks: Understanding RoI for Libraries is a white paper from Springer and the Publishers Communication Group that deals with “return on investment” for libraries when purchasing ebooks. It brings up the issues and challenges involved in computing RoI and provides useful insights for libraries trying to make make such justifications. “In this report, [...]
Read More... →Connect, Collaborate, and Communicate: A Report from the Value of Academic Libraries Summits
Earlier this week we reported on Jennifer Howard’s Chronicle of Higher Education post in which she covered a report on two recent ACRL sponsored summits on the value of academic libraries.
The report and the two summits are [...]
Read More... →“Science Journal Produces a Different Kind of Viral Video” appears in a recent Technology Review and discusses the Journal of Visualized Experiments—JoVE for short. You might ask what’s the big deal? Why an article wholly focused on a specific journal. Well, it seems that JoVE is the “world’s first peer-reviewed video journal.”
JoVE is [...]
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