The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Free Academic Journals? Maybe I read “This Renowned Mathematician Is Bent On Proving Academic Journals Can Cost Nothing.” If you are not an academic, you may not know that some folks pay the publisher to publish one’s research report, journal article, or wild and crazy summary of non reproducible results. Good business? You betcha. I …
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Christine L. Borgman 5 Stars Major Contribution with Some Oversights This book is extremely well-developed and and a major contribution, not least because it it one of the best explorations of information ecologies that are vastly more intricate and cover vastly more time, energy, and locational space, than most realize. It was recommended to me …
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Nearly All Scientific Papers Controlled By Same Six Corporations Researchers looked at scientific literature published between 1973 – 2013 and found that companies ACS, Reed Elsevier, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell controlled nearly every single one.
From PayPal to Amazon to Visa & MasterCard, we now know that it is time to end our reliance on intermediaries. This moral policing by Visa and MasterCard is horribly ignorant, wrong, and should be a basis for public boycott of both of these card services — what’s next: not letting you use payment cards …
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Peer review, instead of helping science stay on track, is actually retarding real progress. The peer review drugs don’t work EXTRACT Peer review is anti-innovatory because it is a process that depends on approval by exponents of the current orthodoxy. . . . Perhaps the biggest argument against the peer review of completed studies is …
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The Indispensable Librarian [57 Slides] Mary Ellen Bates Sep 11, 2014 What’s the value of priceless? Special libraries return $5.43 for every $1 invested. See Also: Mary Ellen Bates @ Phi Beta Iota Cliff Notes Below the Fold
No Search Or Publishing For Science The scientific method is used to approach a problem logically and come to reasonable conclusion based off the presented evidence. Allow me to present the following question: if only a small percentage of scientists publish their work, does that not distort scientific information? Let us approach this problem in …
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