Friday, September 19, 2014

News for Library Nerds, Sept 19, 2014

Retraction Watch and Peer Review Evaluation join forces to improve article retraction transparency. 

What is Peer Review Evaluation? They aim to provide more information about a journal’s peer review process to readers.

On the other end of the process, PubPeer puts post-publication comments in a single location. 

And another call to change publishing models to get around publishing bias: register the study before there is data, and publish no matter the results. For a brief overview.  For the full white paper. 


The bi-literate brain: able to read long-form in print, and quick tidbits online. 


Radical Librarians fighting for greater online privacy

For an overview of Discovery Tools, check out: Chickering, F., & Yang, S. Q. (2014). Evaluation and Comparison of Discovery Tools: An Update. Information Technology & Libraries, 33(2), 5-30. 

The Net Neutrality comment period has closed. Now we wait

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