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Via Shona Whyte

From Wednesday's inbox... British Journal of Educational Technology © British Educational Research Association Volume 44, Issue 4 Pages 531 - 672, July 2013 Special Issue: Emerging Technologies and...

Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge

I am kinda excited by this. A way to find when a game-changing moment took place in science. And the idea around using PubMed data is also a good one. 

 

(For those who don't know about arXiv - http://arxiv.org/- It is an open access collection of "739,631 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics." The publication method in these fields is quite different from that in health sciences - in health science researchers mostly publish in peer-reviewed journals, and only after publication that those articles go into the PubMed database http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/. In the fields included by arXiv, I was told by a friend that progress is made quickly and instead of the journal-publication method I was originally familiar with, many e-prints are submitted to arXiv so that they are available publicly almost immediately. Some important works in physics, math, cs, etc are published only in this manner. This mechanism actually works quite well in these fields. For engineering, on the other hand, people mostly publish in conference proceedings and not in journals...I learned this when I was involved in a multidisciplinary project. Interesting eh?)

 

"Culturomics' team pivots from Google Books to scientific preprints."

Via Theresa Liao

The journal provides a venue for designers to share their knowledge-in-practice through rich representations of their designs and detailed discussion of decision-making. The aim of the journal is to support the production of high-quality precedent materials and to promote and demonstrate the value of doing so. Audiences for the journal include designers, teachers and students of design and scholars studying the practice of design.

 

Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge