NewsBlog: More articles, fewer citations Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 18th July 2008 06:03 PM GMT] As more journal articles go online, only more recent articles tend to be cited, according to a study published today in Science. In addition, only a small group of journals and articles are being cited, the study found. James Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, surveyed a database of 34 million articles, their citations over the past 50... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Forced charges for open access? Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 16th July 2008 05:05 PM GMT] A surprising new open access policy issued this week by the American Psychological Association (APA) is being reconsidered and will not be implemented at this time, according to a statement by the publisher. In contrast to Nature Publishing Group's announcement last week that it was taking a step toward aiding open access, the APA announced this week that it will charge authors' institutions a $2500 fee for accepted manuscripts to... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Stem cell prospects dim in NJ Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 9th July 2008 04:24 PM GMT] Can a New Jersey initiative that aims to tap Wall Street money reinvigorate the state's once-ambitious plans for stem cell research? The stem cell research community once had high hopes that New Jersey would become the next California or New York. But in November of last year, the state voted against a referendum that would have boosted stem cell research funding by $450 million. ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Nature to aid open access Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 8th July 2008 03:13 PM GMT] Nature Publishing Group will begin depositing manuscripts into PubMed Central six months after publication on behalf of authors, starting later this summer, according to a release. But some open access publishing advocates say this is just a way for the publisher to maintain an embargo period, rather than making content immediately available. Earlier this year the National Institutes of Health issued a mandate that required all... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Neuroscientist claims stolen data Posted by Andrea Gawrylewski [Entry posted at 2nd July 2008 09:51 PM GMT] A prominent neuroscientist is accusing two former researchers in his lab of taking data without his permission and publishing misleading interpretations of them against his wishes. Nikos Logothetis, director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany, says that two former researchers working in his lab took fMRI data from monkey brain scans without his permission and made misleading interpretations in a paper published this... Click to continue View comments (6) | Comment on this blog

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