by jzilm | Dec 11, 2013 | News, Publishing
The Guardian | December 9, 2013 | Ian Sample “Leading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a “tyranny” that must be broken, according to a Nobel prize winner who has declared a boycott on the publications. Randy...
by jzilm | Nov 29, 2013 | News, Publishing
The Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory at the University of Victoria (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) invites you to attend the seventh meeting of the 2013-14 Brown Bag Speaker Series. This is a series of informal lunchtime seminars for faculty and graduate students in...
by jzilm | Nov 26, 2013 | News, Publishing
Michael Reid | Times Colonist | November 25, 2013 “How's this for irony? Chances are Ben Lewis, while researching Google and the World Brain, had to rely on Google's flagship search engine for information to help him take the computer giant to task....
by jzilm | Nov 20, 2013 | News, Open access, Publishing & research impact
The Historical Debates of the Parliament of Canada portal provides a centralized, streamlined means of accessing historical debates of the Senate and House of Commons, in both official languages. The Senate and House of Commons Debates, commonly known as the Debates,...
by jzilm | Oct 29, 2013 | News, Open access, Publishing
Michael Geist Blog | October 29, 2013 Geist’s book – The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law published by the University of Ottawa Press (UO)) is available for purchase and is as a free...
by jzilm | Oct 7, 2013 | News, Open access, Publishing
John Bohannon | Science | October 4, 2013 A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals. On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo Cobange, a biologist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara. It was...
