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ARL releases “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries”
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January 26, 2012. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. The Code was developed in partnership with the Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law at American University. Winston Tabb, Johns Hopkins University Dean of University Libraries and Museums and President of ARL, said, “This document is a testament to the collective wisdom of academi...
Source: News from STM - January 26, 2012 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Feta Compli: In Praise of DullnessEmail this article to a colleague.
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Mark Wahba, Emergency Room Physician, Saskatoon Health Region, Saskatoon SK Canadamywahba@mac.com
In 2004 Greece stunned the soccer world by winning the Union of European Football Association quadrennial championship tournament - Euro 2004.
Not Italy. Not Germany. Not England. Not The Netherlands. Not France.
Greece.
Better known for starting the Olympic Games and feta cheese, Greece had never been a soccer powerhouse. Prior to Euro 2004 the Greeks had participated only twice in the final round of a major tournament: the 1994 FIFA World Cup and the 1980 UEFA European Championship. Entering the tournament bo...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - January 25, 2012 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Mark Wahba Source Type: blogs
U. S. House and Senate Postpone Piracy LawsEmail this article to a colleague.
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20 January 2012. The push for controversial legislation known as SOPA and PIPA appears to have unraveled completely after leaders in both the House and Senate put the bills on ice.
In a press release this morning, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tx) announced that the House Judiciary Committee is suspending a planned mark-up for the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that would have created new powers to target foreign “rogue” websites.
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Source: News from STM - January 20, 2012 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
PEER Economics Research Final Report now availableEmail this article to a colleague.
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20 January 2012
The PEER Economics Research Team headed by Professor Paola Dubini, ASK Research Center, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy has completed the economics research commissioned by PEER.
PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research) is investigating the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (so called Green Open Access or stage-two research output) on reader access, author visibility, and journals, as well as on the broader ecology of European research.
http://www.peerproject.eu/reports (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - January 20, 2012 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
White House Says It Opposes Part of Two Antipiracy BillsEmail this article to a colleague.
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January 15, 2012. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Saturday that it strongly opposed central elements of two Congressional efforts to enforce copyrights on the Internet, all but killing the current versions of legislation that has divided both political parties and pitted Hollywood against Silicon Valley.
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Source: News from STM - January 15, 2012 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
DeGruyter acquires VersitaEmail this article to a colleague.
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January 10, 2012
De Gruyter, the Berlin-based academic publishing company, is acquiring the publisher Versita.
As a service provider to academic organizations and bodies, Versita publishes over 230 journals on Open Access basis, i.e. outside the traditional subscription model. With this acquisition De Gruyter is substantially increasing its presence in an important future market of academic publishing. The complete staff of Versita is being retained in this take-over.
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Source: News from STM - January 13, 2012 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
How the FT and NYT aim to make paywalls payEmail this article to a colleague.
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January 9, 2012 Every newspaper, magazine or website is working on a paywall of sorts and closely monitoring what everyone else is doing.
In almost every news company, execs are morosely watching advertising projections and finding numbers that are not exactly encouraging. For digital media, there is no way around this year’s weak outlook: the bad economic climate only adds to the downward price pressure exerted by the ever-growing inventory of web and mobile pages. In a best-case scenario, volumes and prices will remain flat. On the print circulation side, western newspapers are likely to witness a continuing readership...
Source: News from STM - January 9, 2012 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Scientists call for repeal of “deluded” ESPRC measureEmail this article to a colleague.
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January 5, 2012. More than 100 senior chemists, physicists and mathematicians have written to David Willetts, the universities and science minister, to demand the repeal of a raft of recent policy initiatives by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
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Source: News from STM - January 5, 2012 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
SOPA online piracy bill markup postponedEmail this article to a colleague.
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December 20, 2011. The House Judiciary Committee confirmed Tuesday that it will delay continuing debate on the Stop Online Piracy Act until after Congress returns from its winter recess.
Committee spokeswoman Kim Smith said in an e-mailed statement that the hearing is expected to be scheduled for “early next year.”
After two days of heated debate last week, the committee adjourned its markup session on the measure without a vote. The debate over SOPA has been framed as a fight between old media and new media. Organizations such as the Motion Picture Association of America have been backing the bill, while Internet firm...
Source: News from STM - December 27, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Class Action Filed in Google Books CaseEmail this article to a colleague.
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December 19, 2011. The long- delayed lawsuit over the Google Book project took a significant step toward court action and potentially farther away from a settlement with the filing of a motion for Class Certification by The Authors Guild and several individual authors. With the filing, the authors are asking the court to move the case forward as a class action lawsuit, with the guild and authors representing a class of thousands or more individual authors. This could increase the possibility of significant damages against Google if they are found to have infringed on the authors’ copyrights. Google is expected to oppose ...
Source: News from STM - December 27, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
New International Identifier Connects the Right Person with the Right CredentialsEmail this article to a colleague.
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December 12, 2011 (New Providence, NJ) – More than 45 million people “like” Stefani Germanotta’s Facebook page and a similar number count themselves as fans of the internationally renowned author/singer/songwriter Roosevelt Gook. While instantly recognizable under their stage identities, Lady Gaga and Bob Dylan are far more difficult to trace through their real names (or less famous pseudonyms in Dylan’s case). And performers aren’t the only ones changing names: authors often write under multiple names, making it difficult for readers to find their other works. Libraries, too, invest enormous efforts in disambi...
Source: News from STM - December 21, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Class Action Filed in Google Book CaseEmail this article to a colleague.
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December 19, 2011. The long- delayed lawsuit over the Google Book project took a significant step toward court action and potentially farther away from a settlement with the filing of a motion for Class Certification by The Authors Guild and several individual authors. With the filing, the authors are asking the court to move the case forward as a class action lawsuit, with the guild and authors representing a class of thousands or more individual authors. This could increase the possibility of significant damages against Google if they are found to have infringed on the authors’ copyrights. Google is expected to oppose ...
Source: News from STM - December 20, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Lines Drawn on U. S. Antipiracy BillsEmail this article to a colleague.
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December 14, 2011. WASHINGTON — Type “download movies for free” into Google, and up pops links to sites like the Pirate Bay, directing users to free copies of just about any entertainment — the latest “Twilight” installment, this week’s episode of “Whitney,” the complete recordings of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Source: News from STM - December 16, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Opening Europe’s DataEmail this article to a colleague.
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December 9, 2011. The European Commission is set to make a major announcement about the future of the Public Sector Information Directive on Monday. Jonathan Gray from the Open Knowledge Foundation discusses what this might mean for open data in Europe
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Source: News from STM - December 9, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) celebrates 170 years of publishingEmail this article to a colleague.
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December 9, 2011 The Royal Society of Chemistry celebrates 170 years of publishing today with the awarding of a Chemical Landmark plaque at the learned society's office in Cambridge
The blue plaque will be placed outside the main entrance of Thomas Graham House at the Cambridge science park.
RSC Chief Executive Dr Robert Parker said: "This landmark acknowledges the huge and growing contribution of the RSC to the development of the scientific record for the chemical sciences. 170 years ago in 1841 we published our first 42 articles in the 'Memoirs of the Chemical Society of London'.http://bit.ly/sAXcFv (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - December 9, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Deanna Marcum named Managing Director of Ithaka S+REmail this article to a colleague.
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December 8, 2011. Deanna Marcum will become the managing director of Ithaka S+R effective January 1, 2012, the not-for-profit research and consulting service announced today.Marcum has been the Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress. She also served as the president of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the dean of the Catholic University School of Library and Information Science. The American Libraries Association (ALA) awarded her the Melvil Dewey Medal, its highest honor, in June.
http://bit.ly/rBZwKF (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - December 9, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
RLUK announces new publisher termsEmail this article to a colleague.
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December 8, 2011. Research Libraries UK (RLUK), which represents 30 research libraries in the UK and Ireland, announced on December 1 that JISC Collections had “secured better terms and conditions” for the UK higher-ed market as part of negotiated deals with the two largest academic journal publishers in the UK, Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell. In a separate announcement on November 29, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and LYRASIS announced that they have signed an agreement designating LYRASIS, the largest U.S. regional nonprofit library membership organization, as a negotiating agent for online content on beh...
Source: News from STM - December 9, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Do Clinicians Need Spring Training?Email this article to a colleague.
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Steven Lewis, President, Access Consulting Ltd., Saskatoon CanadaSteven.Lewis@sasktel.net
It begins in February and runs to the end of March. Raw rookies and twenty year veterans, bench warmers and megastars, all of whom have played baseball since their single digits. It’s spring training time, and no one is exempt. The playing field is literally and figuratively level. You come, you drill. Practice, practice, repeat. Over and over, until you get it right.
And once you get it right, do it some more. A ground ball to the right side, between first and second. The pitcher reflexively takes off to cover first base. It is eas...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - December 6, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Steven Lewis Source Type: blogs
ORCID, Inc. picks Semantico to build global scholarly author registryEmail this article to a colleague.
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December 5, 2011. Online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has been selected by ORCID, Inc. to help build the first phase of their worldwide registry for scholarly authors. ORCID is a not-for-profit global consortium of academic institutions, publishers, scholarly societies, corporate companies, governmental bodies and not-for-profit agencies.
http://bit.ly/cT5lby (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - December 6, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
The British Library sign agreements with Elsevier and Taylor & Francis for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchersEmail this article to a colleague.
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November 29, 2011. The British Library has signed an agreement with Elsevier and Taylor and Francis for document delivery outside the UK to non-commercial researchers. The agreement governs the supply of copies of articles from the British Library’s Document Supply Service to non-commercial end users via not-for-profit libraries outside the UK.
Barry Smith, Head of Commercial Services at the British Library said “We are delighted to have agreed a framework licence with Elsevier and Taylor & Francis. This means we can improve the speed of service delivery we offer to our overseas non-commercial users and augment our...
Source: News from STM - December 6, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Wolters Kluwer Health Acquires Leading Open Access STM Journal Publisher (Medknow)in IndiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Philadelphia, PA (December 5, 2011) – Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that it has acquired Medknow PVT Ltd., a leading Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) journal publishing operation headquartered in Mumbai, India and one of the largest open access publishers in the world. The acquisition expands Wolters Kluwer Health’s Medical Research business’ presence in key developing markets and supports its strategy to increase locally written content and incorporate more open access platforms into its business model. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
http://ht.ly/7OSU0 (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - December 5, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
IEEE and the China Communication Standards Association (CCSA) Sign Memorandum of UnderstandingEmail this article to a colleague.
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November 17, 2011 IEEE, the world's largest professional association advancing technology for humanity, and the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate in standards development activities. IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and CCSA will work together to promote mutual interests and facilitate faster, better global standards development.
http://bit.ly/vFfGsa (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - November 21, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Opening up medical education: Is this the first Open Access video series of Grand Rounds?Email this article to a colleague.
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This week, the Division of Emergency Medicine in London, Ontario, Canada, released our first video from grand rounds. There's really nothing new about the idea - well-done archives of grand rounds videos truly are a dime a dozen. But - to my knowledge - we are the first program to make the videos available under an Open Access, Creative Commons license (in our case, By Attribution, ShareAlike).
This move is good for our non-academic physician colleagues, who can now access and remix high quality rounds contents from a reputed academic emergency medicine program. But it is also good for us, since it encourages higher calibe...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - November 11, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Tarek Loubani Source Type: blogs
What Joe Paterno Could Have Learned About Disclosure from Health CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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Steven Lewis, PresidentAccess Consulting Ltd., Saskatoon SK CanadaSteven.Lewis@sasktel.net
Happy Valley it ain't.
Penn State University is aflame, its President, two senior officials, and sainted football coach Joe Paterno out the door after 46 years. A former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, is under indictment for multiple sexual assaults against young boys over a 15 year period. Each new piece of evidence confirms that any number of people could have stepped in years ago. On being told an eyewitness account of the sodomization of a ten year old boy in the showers of a Penn State facility - where Sandusky maintained...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - November 11, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Steven Lewis Source Type: blogs
Thirty-three North American research institutions endorse the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to KnowledgeEmail this article to a colleague.
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November 9, 2011. Washington, DC – Thirty-three research institutions, associations, and foundations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico have made a commitment to Open Access to research by signing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. These top private, public, and non-profit organizations join nearly 300 more from around the world in another clear sign of the growing demand for change in the way scientific and scholarly research results are communicated and maximized. The announcement is made in conjunction with the ninth Berlin conference, at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Source: News from STM - November 10, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
America COMPETES – Request for Information on Public Access to Digital Data and Scientific PublicationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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November 7, 2011. The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, signed by President Obama earlier this year, calls upon OSTP to coordinate with agencies to develop policies that assure widespread public access to and long-term stewardship of the results of federally funded unclassified research. Towards that goal, OSTP last week released two Requests for Information (RFI) soliciting public input on long term preservation of and public access to the results of federally funded research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications.
OSTP previously conducted a public consultation about policy options f...
Source: News from STM - November 10, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Fair Use & Felony: U. S. library associations say legislation could expose them to copyright prosecutionEmail this article to a colleague.
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November 9, 2011. WASHINGTON -- A bill under consideration in Congress could make it easier for federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against academic libraries for unduly making copyrighted materials available to students, according to a letter sent to lawmakers on Tuesday by a group of influential library associations.
The bill, called the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261), or SOPA, stipulates that “any person who willfully infringes a copyright” can be charged with a felony “if such a person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial dissemination.”
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Source: News from STM - November 10, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Library Journal bought by RLJ companiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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November 9, 2011. The publishing industry trade journals Library Journal, School Library Journal, and Horn Book Magazine and Guide changed hands Wednesday. Parent company Media Source Inc. (MSI) was purchased by the RLJ Companies.
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Source: News from STM - November 9, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Springer to acquire Pharma Marketing and Publishing Services from Wolters KluwerEmail this article to a colleague.
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November 9, 2011. Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) has reached an agreement with Wolters Kluwer to acquire the Pharma Marketing and Publishing Services division (MPS) for its Springer Healthcare unit. MPS is one of the five largest global providers of strategic marketing, publishing and business intelligence products and services to the pharmaceutical industry, as well as to medical libraries and academic and research institutions.
Derk Haank, CEO of Springer Science+Business Media said: “This acquisition will significantly strengthen our position in international corporate and healthcare markets, and w...
Source: News from STM - November 9, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
What Health Care Can Learn from SkatingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Steven Lewis, PresidentAccess Consulting Ltd., Saskatoon SK CanadaSteven.Lewis@sasktel.net
When performance measurement fails, bad things happen. Figure skating learned that lesson the hard way. Its performance measurement system has evolved from an arbitrary and often corrupt gong show to an increasingly reliable (though still imperfect) science. That it has made progress despite its rigid and hidebound culture is all the more reason for health care to learn from its travails.
Here is a brief history of figure skating fiascos. First there was the obsession with compulsory figures – the ability to trace patterns in the...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - November 8, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Steven Lewis Source Type: blogs
Martyn Harrow appointed new Head of JISCEmail this article to a colleague.
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November 8, 2011. Martyn Harrow, Director of Information Services at Cardiff University, has been appointed as Head of JISC for a fixed term of 9-18 months from 1 February 2012.
Martyn will succeed Dr Malcolm Read who retires as Head of JISC in January 2012 after 18 years in post.http://bit.ly/vV09sM (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - November 8, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
India, US to enhance collaboration in research, skill developmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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NEW DELHI: In a bid to strengthen and deepen its strategic partnership with the United States, India will set up a "higher education platform" to enhance collaboration in research, skill development and student and faculty exchange. The announcement came as the first ever India-US education summit wrapped up in Washington. Both countries stressed on the need to enhance the scope of collaboration and identify new ways to encourage linkages and exchange programmes.
http://bit.ly/nC1BIX (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - November 2, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
You're Either Drafting or Pulling: What Health Care Can Learn From CyclingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Alan Cassels, Drug Policy Researcher and Adjunct Professor, Human and Social Development, University of Victoria, cassels@uvic.ca
Most people think cycling, and by that I specifically mean road racing, is an individual sport. They look at the superstars, people like 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and think: "that guy is awesome!" Which is true, but only partly.
Lance is no doubt one of the world's greatest cyclists, but he also happened to be a member of the world's greatest cycling teams, who helped put him on the podium seven times.
I know this because I'm a cyclist, an occasional road racer who particular...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - November 1, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Alan Cassels Source Type: blogs
How to contribute to the MASH blogEmail this article to a colleague.
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The MASH blog is intended as an open forum that welcomes contributions from anyone interested in making meaningful analogies in sports and health. We will shortly be set up for you to submit content directly to the moderator through the Open Medicine site navigation tools. But for now, contributors should submit their content via e-mail to: Steven.Lewis@sasktel.net.
There are just a few basic rules. First, let us know how you want to be identified - for example, Alice Smith, staff nurse, Middletown General Hospital. If you are open to readers communicating with you directly, also provide an e-mail address. We will include...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - November 1, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Steven Lewis Source Type: blogs
Digital Public Library of America and Europeana announce collaborationEmail this article to a colleague.
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October 25, 2011. At the Digital Library of America plenary meeting on October 21, Europeana program director Jill Cousins announced that Europeana and DPLA have reached a mutual agreement to work toward interoperability, and thus potentially expand content access for users of both projects. In her announcement, she stressed the importance of openness—specifically, open data and open licensing—in digital libraries.http://bit.ly/rQa96f (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - October 27, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
ALA – There are 122,101 libraries of all kinds in the United StatesEmail this article to a colleague.
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ALA Library Fact Sheet 1
There are an estimated 122,101 libraries of all kinds in the United States today. No annual survey provides statistics on all types of libraries.
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Source: News from STM - October 26, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
U. S. Copyright Office outlines “Priorities & Special Projects”Email this article to a colleague.
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October 26, 2011. Orphan works, preservation for libraries, mass digitization, and fighting digital piracy are among the priorities set by the Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante this week in a paper outlining the U.S. Copyyright Office's "priorities and special projects" for the next two years. In all, the paper articulates 17 priorities in the areas of copyright policy and administrative practice, and 10 "new projects" designed to "improve the quality and efficiency" of the U.S. Copyright Office’s services in the 21st century. The paper also summarizes the state of global policy, including U.S. trade negotiation...
Source: News from STM - October 26, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Dispute intensifies over ban on some types of scientific cooperation between U. S. & ChinaEmail this article to a colleague.
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October 18, 2011. Nature News. When US presidential science adviser John Holdren hosted a dinner and meetings between US and Chinese science officials in May, he must have known it would lead to a high-level stand-off. That came to pass on 11 October, when the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an arm of Congress, concluded in a report that those activities violated legislation banning scientific cooperation with China by NASA and by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which Holdren directs.http://bit.ly/o71VV2 (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - October 26, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
ARL (American Research Libraries) publishes Digital Preservation SPEC Kit 325Email this article to a colleague.
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October 25, 2011. Washington, DC--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Digital Preservation, SPEC Kit 325, which explores the strategies that ARL member institutions use to protect evolving research collections and examines the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders. http://bit.ly/sSHzLU (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - October 26, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Jayne Marks joins Wolters Kluwer Health as Vice President, PublishingEmail this article to a colleague.
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30-Year STM Industry Executive Tapped to Lead LWW-Published Journals
New York, NY (October 24, 2011) - Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today the appointment of Jayne Marks as Vice President, Publishing at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) journals, part of its Medical Research business unit.
http://bit.ly/tVOk8E (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - October 25, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
A Joint Venture to Create U. S. Federal Science Agency RepositoriesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) and Information International Associates (IIa) formed a joint venture to develop an institutional repository (IR) service for federal agencies. The institutional repositories are collections of digital scientific and technical information documents and other content. The repository will be hosted by NTIS and supported by content managers and technical experts from IIa and NTIS. This program will enable federal agency content to be made available, providing users with increased ease of access and agencies with cost savings.
http://bit.ly/obWgjp (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - October 20, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
ARL (Association of Research Libraries) announces 2011-2012 Board of DirectorsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announced on October 20 its 2011-2012 board of directors. Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums, Johns Hopkins University, began a one-year term as president of ARL on October 13, 2011, during the ARL Membership Meeting in Washington, DC. He succeeds Carol A. Mandel, Dean of the Division of Libraries, New York University. Mandel continues to serve as a member of both the ARL Board of Directors and the ARL Executive Committee as Past President.
http://bit.ly/nF8qhG (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - October 20, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
High Demand for Science Graduates in the U. S. enables them to pick their jobsEmail this article to a colleague.
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October 20, 2011
A couple of years ago, a pair of researchers at Georgetown University and Rutgers University concluded that, contrary to widespread perception, the United States produces plenty of scientists and engineers.
The problem, wrote Harold Salzman of Rutgers and B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown, is that fewer than half of all college graduates in science and engineering actually take jobs in those fields. So instead of pressing colleges to produce more science graduates, they wrote, the country needed only to persuade new graduates to take the right jobs.
A study released on Wednesday by another Georgetown researc...
Source: News from STM - October 20, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Top 50 Engineering & Technology universitiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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3 October 2011The engineering and technology table is, like it was last year, dominated by California. Three of the top five institutions in the rankings hail from the Golden State, home of the global high-tech hub Silicon Valley.
But the East Coast business powerhouse the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which boasts an $8 billion (£4.9 billion) endowment, remains a major player. It shares first place with last year's outright top dog, the California Institute of Technology.
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Source: News from STM - October 20, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Top 50 Arts and Humanities universitiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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20 October 2011Stanford University knocks Harvard University off the top spot in the arts and humanities subject rankings. With Pulitzer prizewinners and MacArthur Fellows leading its liberal-arts programme, the relative newcomer (founded in 1891) has proved more than a match for its illustrious Ivy League rival.
The University of Chicago, with a humanities department that teaches more than 50 languages, takes third position.
While the arts and humanities table, like all the others, is predominantly Anglo-American, it is the only subject area where an institution outside the US and the UK makes the top five.
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Source: News from STM - October 20, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Reframing the “STEM Shortage” debateEmail this article to a colleague.
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October 20, 2011. WASHINGTON -- For several years now, science advocates and economists have been locked in a debate over whether the United States is producing too few scientists and engineers to sustain the country's historical technological edge and satisfy the demands of employers. With a new report today, Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce hopes to bridge the divide -- by arguing, essentially, that the country needs more people with scientific competencies than it does actual scientists per se.http://bit.ly/pzksVr (Source: News from STM)
Source: News from STM - October 20, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
European Gender Summit: Quality Research and Innovation through EqualityEmail this article to a colleague.
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On November 8-9th, 2011 the Gender Summit under the patronage of top level policy makers is addressing among many themes gender issues in the last stage in the research process, namely analysis, interpretation and publication of research findings. On the second the session under theme D "Gender issues in Science publications" will address how publishers and science editors can promote the use and knowledge of methods for sex and gender analysis in research through editorial policy and other means.
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Source: News from STM - October 19, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
Coming to Terms with Performance Data: My Hero, Duke Snider, Was Not As Good As Mickey Mantle and Willie MaysEmail this article to a colleague.
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Duke Snider died at the end of February. He was my first sports hero. I grew up in a family of Brooklyn Dodger fans, and the Duke was their star center fielder from 1947 through 1957. That was the Dodgers’ last year in Brooklyn; their owner, Walter O’Malley, having failed to extort a big new ballpark from the borough (some things never change), uprooted the franchise and planted it in Los Angeles. Snider’s career waned after the move – he turned 32 in his first season in LA, was hobbled by a bad knee, and became a part-time player. My memories of him go back only to 1959, when he had his last good year (23 home run...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - October 18, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Steven Lewis Source Type: blogs
Brad Pitt Can Save Health CareEmail this article to a colleague.
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Brad Pitt has an approach to data and performance that could save health care. That's right: Brad Pitt. Yes, the same Brad Pitt that started his career on the daytime soap opera Another World; played the cool thief in the Oceans series of films; then the goofy fitness trainer in Burn After Reading and topped it off by marrying Hollywood femme fatale, Angelina Jolie. Handsome, charming, master of self-deprecating humour, and now saviour of the health care system; Is there nothing he can’t do?
You see, Brad Pitt has the opportunity to teach us the tools needed to fix the Canadian health care system. Where did he get these...
Source: Open Medicine Blog - - October 18, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: Mark Wahba Source Type: blogs
Harvard moves ahead with Library reorganizationEmail this article to a colleague.
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October 3, 2011. The 11-member Harvard Library Board has approved a new organizational structure for the university's 73 libraries, which are collectively known as the Harvard Library.
"I am committed to ensuring that the new Harvard Library will be the flagship research library of the 21st century," Provost Alan Garber wrote in a September 28 letter to the Harvard community announcing the decision.
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Source: News from STM - October 6, 2011 Category: Medical Publishers Authors: jkuta Source Type: news
