Tag Archives: Academic

Too much to pay upfront

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Sarah

In a first for US institutions, the University of California, the USA’s largest public university system, has decided to cancel its expensive subscription licence with Elsevier. The two organisations had evidently been negotiating for months, but talks finally failed over … Continue reading →

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Unpaywall: a site for finding academic papers that are free

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Sarah

The journal Nature recently reported on a website called Unpaywall, developed by computer scientists to help academics demonstrate how much of their work is freely available to download. Launched in 2017, the site has become a really useful place to … Continue reading →

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Peer review: not much fun?

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Sarah

Just a quick post to flag up an interesting article in 3rd June’s issue of the The Economist on how to make peer review less onerous: Preview and prosper. Whoever thought there’d be a statue dedicated to peer review?  

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New scientist regains independence

Posted on May 19, 2017 by Sarah

New Scientist has announced in its 20 May 2017 issue that it has returned to independent ownership having been owned by Reed Business Information since the early 1970s. It has been bought by Kingston Acquisitions which the FT describes as … Continue reading →

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Missing you already…or not?

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Sarah

Happy new year! Here’s an interesting bit of news to start off 2017. An article in Science magazine 6 Jan 2017 describes how hundreds of universities, technical schools and research institutes and public libraries in Germany will be starting the … Continue reading →

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Happy to be writing for Jinfo (formerly FreePint) again

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Sarah

So much going on in the world of information and searching and so few posts written. My only excuse is that I’ve been very busy because there is so much going on in the…OK, you can guess the rest! It’s … Continue reading →

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Another article in support of open access

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Sarah

I’ve posted several times on the open access movement which aims to end the practice of charging to read academic papers describing research which has usually been publicly funded in the first place. The latest case for open access is … Continue reading →

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Let the bells ring out, spreading harmony

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Sarah

An appropriately festive article of especial interest to me (as a bell-ringer, or “campanologist” if you like long words), entitled Ding dong measurement on high, swung into my in-box from ScienceDaily over the weekend and inspired me to think about … Continue reading →

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Taylor & Francis offers free access to medical journals for 14 days

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Sarah

The title says it all really, all you have to do is to register on the Taylor & Francis website. Then you will be able to enjoy 14 days of free access to all of their latest medical journal content … Continue reading →

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Google progresses its mission to digitise libraries and make them searchable

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Sarah

A Happy New Year to you. Here’s to 2015, may the search continue! Oooh, that sounds a bit Star Wars-like, but there we are. As a friend once quoted Yoda to me: “do or do not, there is no try”, … Continue reading →

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