Archive for 'Commercialization'
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It was shocking at the end of April when The Scientist reported that Elsevier had published a scholarly-journal-like series that was actually advertising paid for by Merck. The peer-reviewed-like articles in the journal-like object were either reprints or summaries of articles that reported results favorable to Merck drugs. There were also “review” articles that had [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on May 9th, 2009 under Commercialization, Idiocy, Information Ethics, Information Literacy, Scholarly Communications, information industries.
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Heather Has Two Mommies and Just Canceled her Amazon Account
A current kerfuffle on the Internets has to do with Amazon de-ranking GLBT-themed books as reported on the LA Times Jacket Copy blog.
Amazon’s policy of removing “adult” content from its rankings seems to be both new and unevenly implemented. On Saturday, self-published author Mark R. Probst noticed that his book had lost its ranking, [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on April 13th, 2009 under Commercialization, Idiocy, Information Ethics.
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Libraries on Planet Google
It has been a week since news of the Google settlement with authors and publishers broke. Though rumors had been rife that it was imminent, I was still blown away by the scope of it. Of course the court still has to rule, but the outlines - if they remain intact - are stunning in [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on November 4th, 2008 under Books, Commercialization, Google, Technology Issues.
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The Mark of Zotero
This just in, via beSpacific - Reuters is suing George Mason University for violating the Endnote TOS. Apparently (though I’m not sure I really understand the issue - this news story is very cryptic) Reuters claims the organization violated the terms of service when they analyzed ways to convert style files from Endnote to Zotero. [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on September 28th, 2008 under Commercialization, Technology Issues.
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Another Case of the Missing Library
Steven just remarked on the Educause training toolkit for information literacy that somehow missed the fact that libraries have been working on it for some time. D’oh! This presentation on an Annenberg School-sponsored media survey also struck me as a place where “library” as a source of information is noticeably absent. (So are books.) Admittedly, [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on January 27th, 2008 under Commercialization, Privacy, information industries.
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