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Marcie Granahan,
NFAIS Executive Director
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On Sept. 22, NFAIS premieres its new virtual education series—Lunch & Learn with NFAIS. Our first session, Content Strategy for Library Websites, is presented by EBSCO UX researcher, Deirdre Costello. On the fourth Tuesday every other month, NFAIS members can participate for free in these 30- or 45-minute sessions designed to spur new thinking, highlight industry trends and new technologies, and provide solutions to today’s challenges. Non-members are also invited to attend for a nominal fee. For a complete list of this year’s Lunch & Learn topics or to register for any of these events, visit http://www.nfais.org/lunch-learn-with-nfais.
Several articles in this week’s issue of NFAIS Advances align with our NFAIS 2016 Annual Conference theme — Data Sparks Discovery of Tomorrow’s Global Knowledge. Take a look at Scrutinizing the Scientific Method: Researchers in Massive Open Access Study Fail to Replicate A Majority of Psychology Studies, which reports that only 39% of published studies had reproducible results, and Peer review, preprints and the speed of science, as well as the NFAIS Advances Community Forum, where I write about how open science could change the scope of scholarly publishing.
As always, I hope you enjoy reading this week’s issue of NFAIS Advances! And feel free to share with colleagues and friends.
Marcie Granahan
Executive Director
NFAIS
American Libraries
In the past 13 years, open access publishing—in which academic journal content is free for anyone to read online—has moved from a fringe populist movement into the mainstream. Immediate open access could someday become the default publishing model for articles in the biosciences, and perhaps for the humanities and social sciences as well. No one knows for certain if this will happen, much less how or when, but the subscription-based scholarly publishing system that matured prior to the internet appears unlikely to sustain itself indefinitely.
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International Business Times
In textbooks, the process of scientific inquiry appears quite elegant: scientists conduct experiments and build upon one another’s results in a slow but steady march toward discovery. But in reality, researchers often can’t reproduce each other’s findings. One recent estimate suggests that the United States loses $28 billion a year, mostly in government funding, due to the inefficiency of researchers who fail to recreate one another’s results.
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NFAIS
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS™), a global nonprofit membership organization serving the information services community, will host the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable 2015, Friday, Oct. 2 in Chicago with virtual participation available from any location.
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The Guardian
A few weeks ago my collaborators and I submitted our latest paper to a scientific journal. We have been investigating how noroviruses subvert the molecular machinery of infected cells and have some interesting results. If it passes peer review, our paper could be published in three or four months’ time. If it’s rejected, we may have to re-work the manuscript before trying our luck with another journal. That will delay publication even further – it’s not unheard of for papers to take a year or more to get out of the lab and into the world, even in the digital age.
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Molecular Design
Peter Kenny, physical-organic, computational and medicinal chemist and researcher, writes, "I've been meaning to write something about open access (OA) for some time and I do genuinely believe that true OA is a worthwhile (and achievable) ideal. This blog post is not intended as a critique of OA although I will suggest that its advocates do need to think a bit more carefully about how they present the benefits."
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Inside Higher Ed
Don’t be surprised if major publishers show up on campus this fall. In an effort to increase awareness – and sales – of digital course materials, publishers are pitching and selling their products directly to students. The ongoing transition from print to digital in the textbook world is providing publishers an opportunity to learn more about students as consumers and, over time, gain greater control of how course materials are sold, analysts say.
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NextGov
After three years of short-term IT leadership, the Library of Congress has named a permanent chief information officer to manage IT operations at one of the world’s largest libraries. Bernard A. Barton Jr.’s first day as CIO was Tuesday.
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NFAIS
Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in providing on-demand access to scientific, technical and medical (STM) information for life science companies, academic institutions, and other research-intensive organizations, announced today new social connectors and export functionality for Article Galaxy Widget, a time-saving tool from its subsidiary Reprints Desk.
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NFAIS
Libraries can now turn to EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) to support the needs of those studying mathematical sciences. MathSciNet®, an electronic publication of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), is now available via the EBSCOhost® platform, offering access to a carefully maintained database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the literature of mathematics and its applications.
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Inside Higher Ed
Numerous studies have found that men are more likely to think highly of themselves and their talents than are women when they evaluate themselves. A new study finds that these patterns extend to self-citation, in which scholars cite their own past work in new studies. Some scholars frown on the practice, while others note that there may be circumstances where such citations are necessary. But whether one has permissive or skeptical attitudes about self-citation, shouldn't the patterns be the same for men and women?
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NFAIS
Date:
Monday, Sept. 14, 2015
Time:
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (EDT)
In the realm of public health and life sciences, there is strong interest in sharing data. Yet in spite of the benefits open-source data offers, there are many challenges to overcome — including cultural, economic, legal, ethical and technological barriers — before the research community can accelerate the use of this information to improve global health.
To explore these barriers and possible solutions to overcoming them, Mike Huerta of NLM/NIH joins T. Scott Plutchak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and early career researcher, Shreejoy Tripathy, in discussing the underlying issues from their perspectives as funder, administrator and researcher.
Register for this event!
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NFAIS
Overcoming Challenges to Sharing Data
Monday, Sept. 14, 2015 12 p.m.
Content Strategy for Library Websites
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015
12 - 12:45 p.m. EDT
Humanities Roundtable 2015
Friday, Oct. 2, 2015 9 a.m.
The Impact of Open Access Models: Finding Stable, Sustainable and Scalable Solutions
Date: Friday, Oct. 23, 2015
Time: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (EDT)
NFAIS 2016 Annual Conference
Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016 1 p.m. - Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 2 p.m.
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