“Ah paper, I remember paper…”

26 Tuesday Jan 2010

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An interesting report from official UK government researchers YouGov, The Costs of Traditional Filing (PDF link). Small and medium businesses in the UK together…

“waste an estimated £42 million each day locating paper documents. … [staff in an average firm] spend approx. 3 months a year looking for documents […] 87% of respondents spend up to 2 hours every day looking for documents”

Add to that the time untrained staff waste looking for things online, and there’s some serious business wastage going on. And I’d suspect that matters are the same in much of the public sector.

Fake China

16 Saturday Jan 2010

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I suppose a further question is, does it extend beyond the sciences…?

“The latest in a string of high-profile academic fraud cases in China […] Several sources revealed to Nature that roughly one-third of more than 6000 scientists surveyed across six top institutions admitted to plagiarism, falsification, or fabrication.”

It seems it’s probably just as well that no independent open-access ejournals are allowed in mainland China, since otherwise they would have been easily available to researchers in the West.

Eight new ejournals added

13 Wednesday Jan 2010

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Added to the JURN site-index today:—

Minos : revista de filologia Egea (ancient languages of the Aegean region) (Has some articles in English).

   ( Hat-tip for the above: AWOL blog )

Italique (Italian poetry of the Renaissance from Petrarch to the Baroque) (Has some articles in English)

Carte Italiane (Journal of Italian Studies, edited by the graduate students of the Department of Italian at UCLA) (Has some articles in English)

Journal for Learning through the Arts

Kheshbn (Yiddish literary journal)

California Italian Studies

Journal of California Anthropology

Paroles gelees (French and Francophone Studies. Some articles in English)