peter murray-rust

we were simply using delicious to share the reference. We are wrting up crystaleye - peter murray-rust

good! but why not Connotea or Citeulike? or, the closed-source Mendeley? - Egon Willighagen

Thanks - will you be at the blogging meeting? - peter murray-rust from email

THE = Times Higher Education - Richard Akerman

Great article, highlighting the tension between furthering good science and doing what is necessary to "prove" you are furthering good science. - David Wild

"Universities get the publication process they deserve. They have the financial power to change it to suit the twenty-first century – they haven’t done so. They must." Yup! - Björn Brembs

I can't believe the Thomson guy has the gall to say this: ""While we respect publishers' interest in understanding these determinations, the content of the denominator is never negotiated or altered to suit their requests." in the light of this: http://bjoern.brembs.net/e107_im... The nerve! He even goes on to say "Millions of subscribers to the Web of... more... - Björn Brembs

Damnit - should have been running a book on how long before Björn complained about that box :-) Actually found the article a bit disjointed - seemed to be trying to cover too many things. But good to see them covered at least... - Cameron Neylon

lol :-) I'm still flabbergasted as to how the guy basically said: "go and look" when the whole database must be set up for manipulation (how else could you explain two numbers for the same year?). I wonder if someone could write a short script which searched the database for more such 'inconsistencies'. maybe that's not the only case? - Björn Brembs

Its an interesting thought actually - how did you find that example, just come across it or were you looking for something? - Cameron Neylon

Somewhere I had read that CBs IF had gone up 40% after the acquisition by Cell Press. I became curious and looked the numbers up. It's been 'known' for quite a number of years, I guess. - Björn Brembs