This month a whole lot has been written about Sci-Hub, a site where users can often find copies of articles which they cannot access elsewhere. Undoubtedly, distributing articles at Sci-Hub infringes copyright. Some say that people who upload articles to the site could be prosecuted when the sour...
Public Access: Feb. 2016 marks the third anniversary of the OSTP directive to make data and publications resulting from federally funded research freely available. whitehouse.gov and SPARC both marked the occasion. Implementation details continue to be developed; the libraries are tracking those ...
Riding the Wave, from Inside Higher Education, reports on publishing decisions surrounding the gravitation wave story by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) scientists. They voted on where to publish and chose Physical Review Letters. Later this was shared by CalTech li...
You may want to check out the Fair Use Week 2016 guide libguides.wustl.edu/copyright/fairuseweek. If you have questions about using copyrighted materials in your writing and teaching, contact us or contact Micah Zeller, Copyright and Digital Access Librarian, at mdzeller@wustl.edu.
This 5 minute talk, ORCiD Implementation – Publons goes over the procedure for getting peer review work into Publons and exporting to ORCiD: ORCID Implementation – Publons from ORCID, Inc
I welcome your requests and suggestions for library acquisitions. You may email Ruth at rlewis@wustl.edu or use forms, Recommend a Purchase for the Library or Recommend a Journal Purchase or Cancellation. Advanced Patch-Clamp Analysis for Neuroscientists Alon Korngreen Neuromethods 113 Springer e...
I welcome your requests and suggestions for library acquisitions. You may email Ruth at rlewis@wustl.edu or use forms, Recommend a Purchase for the Library or Recommend a Journal Purchase or Cancellation. Basics of matrix algebra for statistics with R / Nick Fieller (University of Sheffield, UK)....
If you missed the ASAPBio conference held at HHMI Feb. 16-17, 2016, there is still a lot of information on the website, including Readings and Comments, a 4-minute video What are Preprints?, a video archive of the live-stream, and much more. Paul Ginsparg, founder of the popular physics-math-comp...
Last weekend, February 19-20, I attended a Rails Girls event in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Rails Girls gives attendees an opportunity to learn the basics of building a web application with Ruby on Rails in an informal environment. These training events encourage women to explore technology and compu...
Autobiografietheorie in der Postmoderne: Subjektivität in Texten von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Bernhard, Josef Winkler, Thomas Glavinic und Paul Auster / Robert Walter-Jochum. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016]. CONTENTS: Theoretische Grundlagen — Die Theorie der Autobiografie —...
