The Scholarly Kitchen
What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing – from the Society for Scholarly Publishing
Archive for Apr 3, 2008
GenBank Turns 25
How quickly they grow up! It seems like only yesterday that GenBank was a two-volume listing of alleles cavorting at our feet. Now, it’s a strapping (300 pickup trucks’ worth) bruiser of genetic information. Congratulations to GenBank on reaching the quarter-century mark!
Blog-based Peer Review Experiment: Mixed Results
An experiment in having a book peer-reviewed online has concluded, and the results are detailed in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The book entitled “Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies,” examines the importance of using software design and traditional media-studies methods in the study of video games. MIT Press was willing to … Continue reading
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