While at the Medical Library Association conference this May, an impromptu forum was organized by the Public Library of Science (PLoS) focused on sharing and soliciting feedback regarding author-level metrics. Like-minded attendees were invited to hear and comment about enhancing the post-publication peer-review process to include other ways to gauge the value of a scientific paper and its impact within the scientific community.
Upcoming PubMed Discovery Tools
A new feature will soon be added to the PubMed database. It will be a “Results by year” timeline which will be displayed when 10,000 or more citations are retrieved. Continue reading
Blog Buzz: June 2 – June 8
Just some of the interesting items on Twitter and the blog-o-verse this week…
Bora Zivkovic’s video of the week at Scientific American is this amazing montage of the week’s Transit of Venus
A Success, And A Long Road Ahead from Kevin Smith at Duke on the petition to the White House for open access of publicly funded research reaching 25,000 signatures, and a related Op-Ed from the Washington Post on open access.
In what appears to have been an (automation?) error, Creative Commons licensed images were included in the paid resource Springer Images. Peter Murray Rust comments on his blog, followed by a statement from Springer.
OCLC has named Jack Blount their new CEO, see the story in Library Journal