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How Corporate Intelligence Teams Help Businesses Manage Risk
Harvard Business Review
In January 2020, a small team at the global financial services technology company Fiserv began closely watching early warning signs of a new disease outbreak in the regional capital of Wuhan, China. The team triangulated reliable media sources and applied their best analytical judgment based on comparable early indicators from historic outbreaks, such as SARS. Prescient analysis revealed a potentially major disease was in the offing.
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How Fake Science Is Infiltrating Scientific Journals
The Sydney Morning Herald
In 2015, molecular oncologist Jennifer Byrne was surprised to discover during a scan of the academic literature that five papers had been written about a gene she had originally identified, but did not find particularly interesting.
“Looking at these papers, I thought they were really similar, they had some mistakes in them and they had some stuff that didn’t make sense at all,” she said. As she dug deeper, it dawned on her that the papers might have been produced by a third-party working for profit.
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November Revenue Increase May Bode Well for eBooks in 2022
Good Ereader
Digital Book revenue has been in a state of decline since the Spring of 2021, but this all changed in November. The format increased by 5.6% and generated $91.5 million in revenue. For the first 11 months of the year, ebook sales were slightly down, by 4.6% and US sales were $984.0 million. Digital audiobooks sales were up 21.9% for November, coming in at $68.3 million in revenue.
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Cornell Research Platform Hits 2M Submissions
Cornell Chronicle
The research-sharing platform arXiv.org now hosts more than 2 million articles.
arXiv, stewarded by Cornell Tech, is a free resource for scholars around the world in fields including physics, math and computer science, who use the service to share their own cutting-edge research and read work submitted by others.
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5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2021
PLOS
This post is part of a series that I started in 2019, recapping the scientific results on peer review to that point. Peer review at journals is a critical part of science, but we’re spectacularly unscientific about it. Yet progress on addressing all the unanswered questions about it is still painfully slow.
Take biomedicine, where most of the experimental research on peer review has been done.
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Publishers Sue to Block Library E-book Laws
Publishers Weekly
The Association of American Publishers filed suit Dec. 9 to stop a new library e-book law in Maryland from taking effect on Jan. 1, claiming that the law, which would require publishers who offer to license e-books to consumers in the state to also offer to license the works to libraries on "reasonable" terms, is unconstitutional and runs afoul of federal copyright law.
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8 States Recognized for Data-Based Decision Making
Government Technology
Last month, the 2021 Invest in What Works State Standard of Excellence offered a look a some of the best examples of data-driven decision-making in state government, designating eight leaders.
The analysis, from Results for America, recognized eight states as leaders in the space: Colorado, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah and Washington.
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Study Raises Questions about Scholarly Impact Metrics
SSRN
After the February 2019 U.S. News & World Report announcement of a planned law school scholarly impact ranking based on HeinOnline data, law schools accelerated efforts to ensure that HeinOnline captured their faculty’s work product and citations to these publications as accurately and completely as possible. In summer 2021, U.S. News abandoned its plans, but the endeavors undertaken by law schools during the two and a half years the proposal was live, reveal much about the scope and accuracy of HeinOnline ScholarCheck metrics, as well as the power U.S. News exerts over law schools.
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