The UK's Research
Information Network funded a two-year project to describe and assess
patterns of the use, value and impact of e-journals by researchers.
Recognising that the effective communication of scientific
research is vital both to the scientific community and to a scientist's career,
the American Chemical Society is currently
producing a series of videos called Publishing Your Research
101.
Determining the order of authors on a scholarly
publication can be problematic, especially among interdisciplinary groups.
However, there are existing protocols that determine who should be credited as
an author on a publication.
Jennifer Howard reports in The
Chronicle of Higher Education, of the University of Oregon's cancellation
of two big subscription deals with Elsevier and Wiley. She also describes how
the Southern Illinois University Library at Carbondale is scaling back on large
publisher journal packages. Mr. Nabe said of the response at Southern
Illinois.