05-09-2013, 02:52 PM | #1 |
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Nature (journal) special on scientific publishing
Nature (journal) special on scientific publishing
Was recently sent this link. It's from over a month ago but a quick search didn't turn up any threads so I apologise if there is an existing thread. I haven't yet read any of the articles but I know a lot of scientists that use Google Scholar in preference over the professional (paid) searches. |
05-09-2013, 03:19 PM | #2 |
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Google Scholar is just an indexing machine providing links to journals, so in most cases you still need access to the journals to access the papers. That being said I do use Google Scholar a lot - Its search function is better than that of Pubmed, but Google does have a bit of expert experience in that area, or so I've heard.
And regarding the link you posted - Sham journals scamming authors is definitely a problem. They are pretty annoying also. I get emails from them once in a while. |
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Thanks a lot for sharing this Nature special.
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05-27-2013, 09:56 AM | #4 |
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Wow, cool!
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06-07-2013, 08:50 AM | #5 |
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I'm just wondering if it's possible to download the articles as epub files?
We can download them as pdf files, but what about epub? |
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PDF is the norm for scientific publishing (at present, at least).
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Oh so sad no epub. Well I'll read on my computer then.
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I do have to admit that I can't really get into reading articles with scientific figures on my kindle or Sony reader though. |
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06-26-2013, 02:29 PM | #9 |
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I generally try and read them on my asus, but I have to confess there are times when I print them out. It's so much easier to flip back and forth between pages, particularly when diagrams are on a different page to the text discussing them.
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Maybe things get easier when A4 PDF reading deveices get cheaper and more mainstream.
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