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Category Archives: Scientific publishing
The Energy Data Initiative
The Energy Data Initiative is a Federal effort to “liberate” government data and voluntarily contributed non-government data as fuel to spur entrepreneurship, create value, and create jobs in the transition to a clean energy economy. As part of this initiative, … Continue reading
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Greening Libraries Wins Award in the 2013 Green Books Festival
Via Library Juice Press. Laura Barnes, Prairie Research Institute Librarian and liaison to the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, authored a chapter in the book. The 2013 Green Book Festival awarded its top honor in the category of Best Business Book … Continue reading
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Theses and Dissertations Available Through New Open Access Tool
Open Access Theses and Dissertations is an index of over 1.5 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online. The full text of all papers … Continue reading
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Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)
Read the full story in the New York Times. A parallel world of pseudo-academia, with prestigiously titled conferences and journals that will print seemingly anything for a fee, has the scientific community alarmed. See also Nature’s special report on the … Continue reading
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JoVE now accepting submissions for new environmental sciences section
JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) is now accepting articles for its new section JoVE Environment. JoVE Environment will launch in September and will be a multidisciplinary section encompassing all aspects of green methodology and environmental sciences. Currently, JoVE is accepting … Continue reading
Call for Papers on Great Lakes Restoration Issues
Environmental Practice, the Journal of the National Association of Environmental Professionals, is seeking papers for possible publication. Issue Topic: Great Lakes Sustainability, featuring Guest Editor Dr. Susan Hedman, Great Lakes National Program Manager, USEPA In light of the many difficult … Continue reading
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Know your rights when you publish
Learn more about scholarly communication and your author rights from the University Library’s Scholarly Commons. Scholarly Commons authors’ guide to scholarly communications The Savvy Researcher instruction session, “Your research rights: Ownership awareness to maximize the impact” will be offered twice … Continue reading
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Research funding: Same work, twice the money?
Funding agencies may be paying out duplicate grants, according to an analysis by Harold R. Garner, Lauren J. McIver and Michael B. Waitzkin and published in today’s issue of Nature. Today’s issue of Chronicle of Higher Education also has an … Continue reading
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Two ISTC researchers guest edit a special issue of Challenges
William Bullock and Joy Scrogum, both with ISTC’s Sustainable Electronics Initiative, are guest editors for a special issue of Challenges entitled “Electronic Waste — Impact, Policy and Green Design.” Challenges (ISSN 2078-1547) is an international, peer-reviewed scientific open access journal … Continue reading
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Dealing with Data: A Case Study on Information and Data Management Literacy
Haendel MA, Vasilevsky NA, Wirz JA (2012) Dealing with Data: A Case Study on Information and Data Management Literacy. PLoS Biol 10(5): e1001339. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001339. Abstract: Our scientific body of knowledge is built upon data, which is carefully collected, analyzed, and … Continue reading
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