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 arXiv analysis finds that 'text overlap' clutters scientific papers |
Computer text analysis of a huge database of scientific papers shows a large amount of 'text overlap,' where authors use text from previous papers of their own and others, not always with attribution. The analysis was conducted on thousands of papers in the arXiv. Paul Ginsparg, professor of physics and information science and founder of the online arXiv collection of scientific papers, now maintained by Cornell University Library, and Cornell graduate student Daniel Citron reported their study in the Dec. 8 online edition of the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
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Dora Angelaki named new editor-in-chief of The Journal of Neuroscience |
The Society of Neuroscience has announced the appointment of Dora Angelaki as editor-in-chief of The Journal of Neuroscience, effective January 1. Angelaki, the Wilhelmina Robertson professor and chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, will serve as editor-in-chief through December 2019. She will succeed John Maunsell, who served as editor-in-chief of the journal for seven years.
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 Russia set to launch National Digital Library in 2015 |
Russia recently unveiled new plans to launch a National Digital Library in 2015. According to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, the new initiative will transform local libraries into modern information and cultural hubs. Citizens' access to the service will be via the internet with a single electronic library ticket.
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 Holiday Notice |
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on January 1st and January 2nd. We will resume our newsletter service on Monday, January 5, 2015. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the December 31st issue.
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