- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine
for more about this, see http://atdotde.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-quality-journals-by-elsevier.html. a wink and a nod to eagledawg for her advice on this comic.
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a gift for you
what does one geek get another geek for a holiday gift? a customized opml file. an opml file is a bunch of rss feeds all crammed into one file. you load an opml file into your blog feedreader and, bam, … Continue reading
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volunteering pays
to follow up on the blog post about becoming a manuscript reviewer for a journal i asked a couple of colleagues how they got to be reviewers: they volunteered! granted, the people i asked are smartypants and have had their … Continue reading
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how do you become a reviewer for a journal?
somebody asked me recently how one gets to be a reviewer for a library-related journal. here’s how you can do it: to be a reviewer you have to have a publishing track record. what topics in librarianship do you care … Continue reading
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truthiness in images
the chronicle of higher education has an intriguing post in yesterday’s edition, about fraudulent images used in scientific publications. the images discussed in the article were altered in a way that made it look like the results of the research … Continue reading
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pubshub
PubsHub is a “strategic publication planning tool,” a database to help you choose to which medical journal or meeting to submit your manuscript or present your data. i saw a demo of this in the exhibits hall at the medical … Continue reading
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