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Fifty Years After Silent Spring, Assault on Science Continues, by Frank Graham Jr. “When Silent Spring was published in 1962, author Rachel Carson was subjected to vicious personal assaults that had nothing do with the science or the merits of pesticide use. Those attacks find a troubling parallel today in the campaigns against climate scientists …
News release: “Moody’s Investors Service today repositioned the ratings of 15 banks and securities firms with global capital markets operations. The long-term senior debt ratings of 4 of these firms were downgraded by 1 notch, the ratings of 10 firms were downgraded by 2 notches and 1 firm was downgraded by 3 notches. In addition, …
Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications – Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, June 2012 “This report tackles the important question of how to achieve better, faster access to research publications for anyone who wants to read or use them. It has been produced by …
“The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. [Currently there are 1098 Academic peer-reviewed books from 27 publishers.] Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in …
“Bumble bees, key pollinators of crops and wildflowers across the country and essential for a healthy environment, are declining at an alarming rate. Bee biologists discovered that several previously common species are now absent from much of their former territory. Creating, protecting and restoring habitat is a very important way to conserve the populations of …
“Just to let you all know that here at the Economic and Social Data Service in the UK we have been working with the ESRC on a brochure to encourage data citation amongst our social scientists and journal publishers. In October 2011 we minted over 5000 DOIs for our ESDS Collection with Datacite, using a …
Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories “offers a quick environmental scan of the repository landscape and then focuses on disciplinary repositoriesthose subject-based, often researcher-initiated loci for research information. Seven of these repositories are profiled, with a focus on their varied business models. The report concludes with a discussion of sustainability, including funding models, factors that …
Via LLRX.com: Should libraries start their own, more trustworthy Facebook? – David Rothman proposes that the time may be fast upon us for libraries perhaps allied with academic institutions, newspapers and other local media to start their own more trustworthy Facebook. His involvement with the Digital Public Library of America provides a reference …
“Over the past three decades, as developing economies industrialized and began to compete in world markets, a global labor market started taking shape. As more than one billion people entered the labor force, a massive movement from farm to factory sharply accelerated growth of productivity and per capita GDP in China and other traditionally rural …
University of California, San Francisco – “The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) contains more than 13 million documents (70+ million pages) created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.”
“Thomson Reuters GRC surveyed more than 1,500 internal audit practitioners from firms around the world in March 2012 to canvass their views on the state of internal audit and their greatest challenges for the year ahead. The results reflect an evolving professional discipline that is focused on internal control, IT risk and security, risk management, …
“In this update to Hidden Risks: The Case for Safe and Transparent Checking Accounts (April 2011), Pews Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project continues its study of checking account terms and conditions to examine both the state of the marketplace and the effect of current regulations. This study revisits and expands on the original …
