European Association of Science Editors Bookshelf

Journal : Bookshelf

"The Editor's Bookshelf" forms part of each issue of European Science Editing. It lists and briefly describes articles and books likely to be of interest to editors of publications in the sciences.

Blog for contributions to the Editor's Bookshelf

Work in progress to be published in the journal can now be viewed online in the EASE Journal Blog, which now also includes articles for the News Notes and WebWatch sections of the journal.

If you would like to contribute to the blog please contact the section coordinators, Paola de Castro (paola.decastro@iss.it), Colin Batchelor and Penny Hubbard, who will be glad to receive details of articles, books or websites of interest to editors.

Contributions in European languages other than English, especially in French or German, are welcome, as well as contributions in English.

Entries are arranged (roughly) by topic under each heading, not alphabetically by author. We regret that photocopies of the material referred to in these entries cannot be supplied. Many thanks to those who have sent contributions.

For more information about EASE and European Science Editing see EASE's home page and the other links listed on the left.

Disclaimer: Although we hope that the bibliographic details below are correct we cannot guarantee their total accuracy, nor can EASE accept responsibility for any problems arising from possibly incorrect information included here.

The Bookshelf contents are listed under the following headings:

Economics and funding
Editorial process
Ethical issues
Information retrieval
Language and writing
Publishing
Research evaluation
Science

Thanks to the following for their contributions to the Editor's Bookshelf:

Vol 34(2), May 2008:
Emma Campbell, Margaret Cooter, Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, James Hartley, Penny Hubbard, Arjan Polderman, and Renata Solimini

Vol 34(1), February 2008:
Penny Hubbard, Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, and Margaret Cooter

Vol 33(4), November 2007:
Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, and Renata Solimini

Vol 33(3), August 2007:
Margaret Cooter, John Glen, and Renata Solimini

Vol 33(2), May 2007:
John Glen and Renata Solimini

Vol 33(1), February 2007:
Renata Solimini

Latest additions to the Bookshelf

Journal : Bookshelf : Science
Vol 34(2), May 2008 - Jul 13, 2008 - 6:53 PM

There are no articles on the above topic in this issue.

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Journal : Bookshelf : Research evaluation
Vol 34(2), May 2008 - Jul 13, 2008 - 6:46 PM

Budden AE, Tregenza T, Aarssen LW, Koricheva J, Leimu R, Lortie CJ. Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2008;23:4�6.
(doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.07.008)
Leydesdorff L. Caveats for the use of citation indicators in research and journal evaluations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2008;59(2):278�287.
(doi: 10.1002/asi.20743)
Shepherd PT. Final report on the investigation into the feasibility of developing and implementing journal usage factors. United Kingdom Serials Group, May 2007.
Steckler A, McLeroy KR. The importance of external validity. American Journal of Public Health 2008;98(1):9�10
(doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.126847)

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Journal : Bookshelf : Publishing
Vol 34(2), May 2008 - Jul 13, 2008 - 6:41 PM

Hartley J, Betts L. The effects of spacing and titles on judgments of the effectiveness of structured abstracts. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2007;58(14):2335�2340.
(doi: 10.1002/asi.20718)
Jeandron M. Journal to support astronomy outreach. Physics World 2007;20(12):9.
Johnson RK, Luther J. The e-only tipping point for journals: what�s ahead in the print-to-electronic transition zone. Washington DC: Association of Research Libraries, December 2007.
Roth DL, Bronsdon R, Phipps TE, Jr, Dylla HF. Open-access publishing at what cost? Physics Today 2008;61(2):8�9.
Smart P. Journals � the wrong model for Africa? Learned Publishing 2007;20:311�313.
(doi: 10.1087/095315107X225415)
Van Orsdel LC, Born K. Periodical price survey 2007: serial wars. Library Journal 15 April 2007.

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Journal : Bookshelf : Language and writing
Vol 34(2), May 2008 - Jul 13, 2008 - 6:38 PM

American Physical Society [Heading in Chinese characters]. APSHiC. Journals to print author names in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. APS News 2008;17(2):1.

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Journal : Bookshelf : Information retrieval
Vol 34(2), May 2008 - Jul 13, 2008 - 6:35 PM

Baruch P. Open access developments in France: the HAL Open Archives System. Learned Publishing 2007;20:267�282.
(doi: 10.1087/095315107X239636)
Waldrop MM. Science 2.0: Great new tool, or great risk? Scientific American 9 January 2008.

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