Archive for 'Commercialization'
Balancing Act
I’m kind of in the pickle that Maura describes – subscribed to too many sources of information that I would read if I weren’t so busy keeping up with the stream of new information. But Current Cites is always a good ‘un for finding a cross-section of interesting new stuff and this week it pointed [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 29th, 2009 under Commercialization, Open Access, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues, Worth Reading, information industries.
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This Journal Brought to You By . . .
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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