The Hippocratic oath meets Web 2.0 Dec 4, 2007
News on recent trials and scientific developments comes from medical publishers. Doctor submissions are reviewed by the company's editorial boards. (The Age)
Digital preservation: Alliance set to tackle science's new frontier Nov 27, 2007
The questions is can the world afford to lose this data" There is no doubt that implementing preservation strategies will be costly, although how much investment is required is still an unknown. In general stakeholders agree that data must be preserved in a way that guarantees open access, interoperability so that datasets can be compared within and across scientific fields, and repositories must be developed to meet these needs in a quality-controlled and sustainable manner. On the flip-side... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
EU: Publish online or perish Feb 16, 2007
"Nobody will benefit if a major European industry is undermined and with it the peer review system upon which science and society depend," said the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) in a statement ahead of Thursday's announcement by the Commission. The publishers, which include giants like Reed Elsevier and McGraw-Hill, cosigned a petition to Europe's lawmakers dubbed the Brussels Declaration, calling for leniency. (InfoWorld)
