Academic publishing
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When research is funded by the taxpayer or by charities, the results should be available to all without charge.
From: May 1, 2012 Economist
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
BMJ Group renews partnership with HighWire
STANFORD, CA, 30 April 2012 – The BMJ Group today announced the renewal of their long‐standing partnership with HighWire Press..."In recent years, BMJ Group has developed a reputation for being one of the most innovative and influential STM publishers," said Peter Ashman, Publishing Director at the BMJ Group.
For the full story, visit: http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/BMJrenewsHW.pdf
For the full story, visit: http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/BMJrenewsHW.pdf
Spending Panels Back Boosts for NSF, NASA, NIST Programs
by Jeffrey Mervis
The National Science Foundation and NASA got off to a strong start last week in the annual congressional budget race. Separate spending bills in the House of Representatives and the Senate would spare both agencies from the severe cuts forecast next year for most federal agencies in the wake of last summer's budget agreement between Congress and the White House and a budget resolution approved earlier this month by the House. And while legislators aren't expected to cross the finish line for the 2013 budget until after the November elections, an early lead can't hurt.Thursday, March 15, 2012
ND researchers publish a review article about current progress in the development of compound semiconductor tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) for low-voltage, high performance logic applications.
Alan Seabaugh, Soo Doo Chae, Patrick Fay, Wan Sik Hwang, Tom Kosel, Rui Li, Qingmin Liu, Yeqing Lu, Tim Vasen, Mark Wistey, Grace (Huili) Xing, Guangle Zhou, and Qin Zhang
Congratulations from the Engineering Library!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Predatory Publishers -- authors beware!
Beall's List of Predatory, Open-Access Publishers
by Jeffrey Beall metadata librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver who keeps a running list on his blog
Friday, March 2, 2012
The Engineering Library is pleased to announce three new e-book collections!
Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
Synthesis Collection One | Synthesis Collection Two | Computer and Information Science Collection Two Synthesis is an information service for the educational community in engineering and computer science published by Morgan and Claypool. The collections ontain 50- to 200-page self-contained electronic documents, "lectures", which are organized into a hierarchical structure of disciplines and series. Each is authored by a prominent contributor to the field. New series and lectures are added continuously and existing lectures will be revised as needed..
Individual titles are in the Library’s Online catalog found on the Engineering Library homepage at: http://engineering.library.nd.edu/
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