Academics back peer review but want improvements
Peer review received almost universal backing in a recent international survey of 3,040 academics. The study, carried out by Mark Ware Consulting on behalf…
April / May 2008
Teamwork saves review time in neuroscience
Submitting a research paper to a journal can be a long process. And if, after receiving reviews, the paper is rejected by one journal,…
Legal documents enable scientific discovery
‘A patent is a legal document but in a scientist’s hands it has to become a scientific document,’ observed Jorge Manrique, VP of sales…
Books make their mark in search-engine family
A few years ago everyone knew what you meant when you were using the verb ‘to Google’. It meant using a popular indexing search…
E-books are here to stay
E-books are back and this time, they are here to stay. The Online Information conference in London in December was told that, after a…
Task force takes on data preservation challenge
The information age has created a global networked society in which access to digital information has revolutionised science, education, commerce, government, and other aspects…
Chemistry is core to science
What is the role of peer-reviewed literature in chemistry?As in all the sciences, peer review is really the standard that researchers expect. As electronic…