Open Access Launches Journal Wars
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Senators promise to reintroduce a bill that would force scientific publishers to post publicly funded research for free. The publishers fight back with a PR campaign. By Randy Dotinga.
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Some medical researchers are primarily interested in the three P&#39;s of publication, patents and professorships, while others focus on policies, practice and people.
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Google Inc. on Thursday formally launched a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers. Google Scholar is a free beta service that allows users to search for scholarly literature
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What happened to the guts in mainstream publications? I recall back in the 80s InfoWorld pressured Lotus into ditching its copy protection scheme by docking Lotus 1-2-3 several points in reviews because of the inconvenience. I believe Lotus was the first to buckle, but other vendors jumped on the bandwagon and abandoned copy protection. Fast forward to today. Not only has copy protection come back from the grave, it has risen like a juggernaut zombie bent on eating everyone's brains. Worse, many consumers and writers alike seem to be unscrewing their scalps and willingly offering up the meal. "I want the latest iThing, it's so cool!" Sure, you'll find appropriate outrage in Linux Journal and a handful of renegade publications like the Register. But what happened to the mainstream journals with the guts of yesteryear?
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InfoWorld - Software publishers and users are at odds about software licensing, according a study released Monday.
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By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 17--THE GREAT LAKES WATER WARS. By Peter Annin. Island Press. 304 pages.
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A prestigious journal supports Dendreon and makes a compelling case for more FDA disclosure.
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A new online medical journal will make its research articles available to the public free of charge and accessible through the Internet.
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Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier has  launched a free advertising-funded cancer Web site with its  academic journals primarily targeting U.S. health care  specialists and the fastest growing therapy area in the world.
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You can learn a lot from writing a newspaper column, especially when a reader calls in to say that you're wrong. I've just received a revealing critique that foreshadows a nasty new escalation in the battle over our digital rights.
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TORONTO - Some of the world&#39;s most prestigious medical journals have banded together to force pharmaceutical and medical device companies to report the full results of clinical trials, both positive and negative.
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WASHINGTON: A new front has been opened in the long-dormant browser war, with an open-source program called Firefox aiming to challenge Microsoft&#39;s dominant Internet Explorer.
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A new site, Do The Right Thing, allows users to make submissions criticizing industries and companies, which are then voted on by readers.
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The editors of 11 top medical journals shook up the staid world of academic publishing this past week when they decided to stop printing results of drug trials that aren&#39;t registered in a central database.
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A new online medical journal plans to make its articles available for free over the Internet. The Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Medicine), launched earlier this month, will be available to anyone
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State-owned universities and research institutions are raking in revenue while remaining shielded from lawsuits themselves. Can it last?
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The editors of 11 medical journals, including some of the most prominent ones in the United States, are adopting a policy meant to improve public access to study data, especially