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Ancora sui digital textbooks

Andrea Angiolini , 18 agosto 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]

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Peer review e open data

Andrea Angiolini , 17 agosto 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]
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Darwin è anche su Twitter

Andrea Angiolini , 13 agosto 2011

Ci seguite anche su Twitter? Più notizie, più velocemente http://ow.ly/5VcHx

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Internet Archive scopre il libro (a stampa)

Andrea Angiolini , 01 agosto 2011

Internet Archive founder turns to new information storage device – the book. Brewster Kahle, the man behind a project to file every webpage, now wants to gather one copy of every published book.

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Nuove edizioni digitali online / 25 luglio

Andrea Angiolini , 25 luglio 2011

E' online un nuovo titolo da catalogo del Mulino. Si tratta del libro di Luisa Molinari, Alunni e insegnanti. Costruire culture a scuola[...]