Posted on July 14, 2009 by jdondoyle
from the Krafty Librarian at: http://kraftylibrarian.com/
July 14th, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article about the American Chemical Society ending the print editions and begin producing only online journals for all but three of their journals. It was a financial decision. “Printing and distribution costs now exceed revenues from print journals,” according [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2008 by jdondoyle
From the Open Access News: Carol Goble, The Future of Research, a slide presentation at the British Library Board Awayday, September 23, 2008. Goble discusses open science, open data, and open access, among other topics.
Some high points:
Seamless integration of data, literature, and other research commodities
Integrated search across external data resources
Selective quality curation
Hell is other people’s [...]
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