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Nuove edizioni digitali online / 5 settembre
September 5, 2011
Sono online due nuovi titoli; si tratta dei libri di Umberto Levra e Francesco Vella.[...]
NonsoloDarwin
Ebook sì, no, forse
August 24, 2011
What are the deeper implications of the shift to ebooks – for us
Let’s forget Publishers … and Authors … and all the companies that want to take over Publishing and Books. That leaves us readers and our books.
We are migrating from books to ebooks and from a curated gatekeeper model to a mix of curation and long tail and ‘anyone can publish’.
What impact does it have on us?
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[da http://ireaderreview.com/
NonsoloDarwin
Dopo GScholar, Citations?
August 22, 2011
All Things Google: Google Scholar Citations
It’s no great secret that many of us here at ProfHacker are heavy users of All Things Google. One of the services I particularly like is Google Scholar; I find it a good starting point for literature searches, and appreciate the ability to set up alerts. Plus, Zoteroworks very well with it.
A few weeks ago, Google introduced a service that should make Scholar even more useful: Google Scholar Citations.
[Da The Chronicle of Higer Education]
NonsoloDarwin
Ancora sui digital textbooks
August 18, 2011
Digital textbooks will save you money and other nonsense
A few weeks back Amazon announced their digital textbook rental program. You can probably recall how many bloggers wrote about how this new program would save students so much money...
[da the Digital Reader]
NonsoloDarwin
Peer review e open data
August 17, 2011
Will Open Data Solve Peer Review Concerns?
The report, “Peer Review in Scientific Publications,” released last week by the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, reiterates much of what we already know:
- That peer and editorial review is important for maintaining the integrity of the scientific literature
- That the process of peer review is not consistent across all journals
- That pre-publication review may be supplemented — although not replaced — by post-publication review
- That publishers need to continue experimenting with other models for review and dissemination
- That editors and senior academics need to educate new scholars on how to provide quality reviews
- That granting and promotion committees should not rely upon a single metric (e.g., the impact factor) in order to evaluate the merits of a paper
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[da the Scholarly Kitchen]