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Kellie Davis

How Scholars Hack the World of Academic Publishing Now - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...279119

scholar journals

shared by Kellie Davis on 30 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Kellie Davis on 30 Aug 13
     
    If you want to understand the modern academy, it wouldn't hurt to start at "impact factor." Every year, the company Thomson Reuters assigns every academic journal an "impact factor." Impact factors measure, roughly, how often papers published in one journal are cited by other journals. It is an ecological measurement, in other words.
Derik Dupont

In U.S., Long History of Governments Subsidizing Newspapers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...28subsidy.html

Government Newspapers Subsidizing Legal Postage Publishers

shared by Derik Dupont on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Derik Dupont on 28 Jan 10
     
    Two scholars point out that newspapers have had help since Washington's day, with paid ads from local governments and discounts on bulk mail.
EPublisher Confesses

Race, Culture, and the Digital Divide - 0 views

www.thefreemanonline.org/...culture-and-the-digital-divide

ebook reader publishing web 2.0 publishers

shared by EPublisher Confesses on 22 Nov 11 - Cached
  • EPublisher Confesses on 22 Nov 11
     
    Prior to the September 11 attacks and the stock market slump, one of the hottest policy issues debated by technology scholars was the so-called racial "digital divide," a term concocted to portray "haves and have nots" in the world of the Internet.
arnie Grossblatt

Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - 1 views

chronicle.com/...48245

google publishers libraries metadata search

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • that's what you'll get.
    • arnie Grossblatt
      arnie Grossblatt on 09 Sep 10
       
      and that's what you deserve.
  • you need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it's so disappointing that the book search's metadata are a train wreck: a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.
  • Here, too, Google has blamed the errors on the libraries and publishers who provided the books. But the libraries can't be responsible for books mislabeled as Health and Fitness and Antiques and Collectibles, for the simple reason that those categories are drawn from the Book Industry Standards and Communications codes, which are used by the publishers to tell booksellers where to put books on the shelves, not from any of the classification systems used by libraries.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 09 Sep 10
     
    Powerful criticism of GBS and its mishandling of metadata.
Corey Parker

Flacking for Big Pharma: an article by Harriet Washington | The American Scholar - 0 views

www.theamericanscholar.org/flacking-for-big-pharma

ethics STM

shared by Corey Parker on 08 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Corey Parker on 08 Jul 11
     
    What can happen to a journal's editorial integrity when the influence of "big pharma" becomes too great
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