Posts Tagged ‘Research’
Call for Papers for NFAIS Open Access Conference
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is calling for presenters for their annual Open Access event on October 1-2, 2018 in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Interested in presenting at this event? Call for presentations is open until July 31, 2018. Open Access continues to offer transformative change in traditional scholarly research that is…
Read MoreIndexing the Past
Officials of one small town are looking for some professional help to preserve records. These aren’t just your ordinary county clerk records; some of these date back to the 1700s before town government was formally established. Newsday brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Historical documents a treasure trove for Town of…
Read MoreNatural Language Processing Acknowledged in Awards
The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) is one of Amazon’s ways of supporting external research that could potentially be integrated into the tech giant’s platform in the future. Recently the 49 projects chosen were announced. This interesting information came to us from Slator in their article, “Natural Language Processing and Neural Machine Translation Figure Prominently in Amazon…
Read MoreReporting Challenges
A challenge for many researchers is how to present data in a useful and approachable way. Chemistry World brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Presentation and copyright worries keep scientists from sharing data.” Gathering data and doing research is second nature to them, but organizing data in a useful, presentable way is…
Read MoreCapturing Ancient Medical Knowledge with Taxonomies
A collaboration between a Chinese university and Elsevier is undertaking the momentous task of cataloguing traditional Chinese medical knowledge as global clinical practice increasingly seeks to combine conventional and Eastern techniques. Healthcare IT News brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Elsevier to collaborate in cataloguing traditional Chinese medicine as global interest…
Read MoreDigital Preservation for Scholarly Publishing
Scientific print-publishing has never been a speedy process. It has long been a slow and cumbersome one. However, one associate editor at one of the very first electronic peer-reviewed journal was determined to help bring scientists into the new digital age. This interesting topic came to us from Wired in their article, “What Happens When Science Just Disappears?” Kay…
Read MoreNew Platform for Academic Publishing
Cambridge University Press recently announced the expansion of Author Hub into a new, integrated online platform for book authors. This news came to us from STM Publishing in their article, “Cambridge University Press Announces New Home for Authors.” Author Hub originally launched in 2013 and offers services for current and prospective authors spanning all three of the…
Read MoreOpen Access Publishing is Not a Fair Playing Field
The shift towards open-access publishing continues and in the process some new types of inequality within academia have been revealed. This interesting information came to us from the Times Higher Education and their article, “Open-access charges ‘create new inequalities’ in publishing A class division between universities, whereby researchers from lower-ranking institutions with fewer resources are often…
Read MoreA New Drug
Social media and its impact on politics, religion, social policies and current affairs has been under the microscope for some time now. Many believe the voyeuristic use of social media and the armchair critic syndrome is unhealthy and addictive. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Technology as the…
Read MoreThe Rest of the Story
Last week we discussed the valuable information and story that data, specifically DNA data, can reveal. I shared our experience with canine DNA and what story our dogs’ DNA told us. We did the canine experiments several years ago and valued the information provided to us by the company about breed specific diseases, behaviors, etc.…
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