Human Translation or Machine Translation – Which Is Better?
Human Translation vs Machine Translation
The debate between human translation and machine translation has been in around for a long time now. While some disagree on the…
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Tracking Usage Factor — by COUNTER Usage Factors or Journal Impact Factors?
For many frustrated researchers, the academic publishing industry continues to move at a glacial pace. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Journal Impact Factor (JIF)…
Why Corporations are Not Investing in Scientific Research?
A History of Huge Contributions to Science
If you think back to many of the scientific breakthroughs in the 20th century, a lot of them came from corporate research centers:…
How Is “CHORUS” Aiding Public Access to Federally Funded Research?
In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a policy memorandum directing:
“Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D…
CSR May Increase the Availability of Research Funding
What Is CSR?
In the simplest terms, corporate social responsibility (CSR) posits an argument that organizations should operate under social and environmental obligations in…
Is Academic Research Getting Commoditized?
What Is Commoditization?
In the business world, commoditization starts to occur in the latter stages of a product's life cycle (the so-called "golden years"). Consumers no longer…
Does it Matter When You Analyze Your Research Data?
It’s safe to say that there is no research without data. It can be good, bad, or inconclusive, and we pay very close attention to both the methodologies by which it is collected…
Using Big Data for Research
What is Big Data?
Growing concern over how much data is available to researchers and the potential for what we can do with all of that data is arguably one of the hottest topics…
The Economics of Open Access Publishing
A Decade of Exponential Growth
According to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), at present, there are over 10,000 fully open access (OA) peer-reviewed scholarly journals…
Does Academic Publishing Need Net Neutrality?
What Is Net Neutrality?
The foundation of the Internet was laid by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the late 1960s, when a communications network was created…
Can the METRICS Center Save Science?
METRICS: A Little Backdrop
In 2005, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine journal published a paper by Greek researcher Dr. John Ioannidis entitled “Why most published…
Are Research Libraries Failing in Their Mission?
A Changing Mission
Research libraries have long considered their primary user base to be the students and faculty of the institution that funds their existence. Over time,…