In response, the number of journals bought by libraries dropped by 6% over that period.
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee did more than just lament the rising price of journals.
The committee expressed concern at the lack of public access to research findings, and at the rising price of journals.
One way of addressing the concerns of politicians and university libraries is the promotion of journals in which the author pays to be published.
He trained a generation of leading human embryologists, founded the field's first professional society and began a series of journals to spread its research findings.
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Hundreds of journals churn out learned articles on cutting-edge research.
The Colleges also provide a research base, in the form of journals and conferences, as well as a community championing the highest standards in the specialist areas they represent.
Creation in 2007 of a Digital Repository of Journals published by the University of Costa Rica, with 45 open access full-text journals and plans to move to a OJS platform.
He was sentenced to prison for falsifying research data purportedly demonstrating the efficacy of analgesic medications sold by Pfizer, Merck, and Wyeth that were published in dozens of journals before his fabrications were uncovered.
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His list of publications was truly impressive, both in terms of the content of the articles as well as its sheer number and the prestige of the journals in which it was published: dozens of articles in all the top psychology journals in academia with a number of them in famous general science outlets such as Science.
The study, published in 2009 in one of the journals of the Public Library of Science, PLoS Computational Biology, also showed that patients who developed diseases that tend to coincide with many others were more likely to die sooner than people whose diseases were more tangentially connected.
The paper was debunked in a wide-variety of scholarly journals, by the Department of Energy, and even criticized by some environmental groups.
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Since researchers, administrators and grant-awarding bodies all take note of which work has got through this filtering mechanism, the competition to publish in the best journals is intense, and the system becomes self-reinforcing, increasing the value of those journals still further.
The 19th century brought an explosion of literary journals that serialized novels, and cheaper book production.
He is an editorial board or correspondent member of a number of academic journals, has published numerous articles, reviews and books and supervised many doctoral students.
They say that the publishers are too mean to open the online versions of their journals and their archives to non-subscribers, denying scientists an even wider audience.
On that December night at Bleak House, I noticed that del Toro had moved some of his journals from the bathroom safe to a shelf in the Rain Room.
That matters, because university departments (and individual researchers within them) are rated both by the number of papers they publish and the reputation of the journals those papers appear in.
Assuming there are no further glitches, the energy of the collisions will be cranked up over the next few months and the new subatomic goodies will start pouring out of the machine and into the pages of physics journals.
That long tail includes about a hundred databases of specialized information that the search engine is now working on indexing, such as the Security and Exchange Commission's online filings and the online collection of medical journals known as PubMed.
There are hundreds of medical journals.
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But although such claims are frightening, and the more so the more distant the memory of the disease, they should be subjected to the same rigorous scrutiny as any other apparent scientific discovery especially by the reviewers and editors of influential journals.
Researching the 1980s recently, I went through a vast pile of professional journals and was struck by the difference between then and now, how appallingly thin, tentative, falsely contextual and philosophically pretentious the work was 20 years ago, while busily declaring itself the new wave.
Some have been set up by academics who are unhappy with the way academic publishing works. (Since January some 9, 500 researchers have joined a boycott of Elsevier.) In several cases the entire editorial boards of existing journals have resigned to start new ones with lower prices and less restricted access.
According to the study, North America and Europe still publish 75% of social science journals worldwide, with 85% of them partially or totally in English.
As Summers pointed out, Clinton would have read from a variety of respected economic research journals and sources of ground-breaking economic thought and bring those ideas to the meeting.
Today, Science Magazine, one of the top scientific journals and the original publisher of the GFAJ-1 work, is publishing two new papers that completely demolish the argument that GFAJ-1 is a completely new form of life.
In an article Michel and Lieberman Aiden published in the January 14 2011 issue of Science, one of the top research journals, they used a database of 4% of all the books ever printed between 1800 and 2000 to show how grammar, censorship practices, and the rate at which new technologies are adopted over time.
She refers to most things by their color, including a majority of my medical journals.
Which is one of those fancy journals where normal people understand about every 15th word.
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