Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Monday, 20 May 2019

The Great Science Publishing Scandal

A 28 minute radio programme in which Matthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology at the University of

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Manchester, explores the hidden world of prestige, profits and piracy that lurks behind scientific journals.
If you want to know about how the business of academic publishing works, then this programme provides an insight. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004l7k

Friday, 1 February 2019

Lab notebooks - handwriting at the core of science - British Library blog post


23rd January was world handwriting day, the British Library took this as an opportunity to look at examples of lab note book past and present. How does yours compare? Do you still hand write your lab book or make use of online tools like Benchling?

https://blogs.bl.uk/science/2019/01/lab-notebooks-handwriting-at-the-core-of-science.html  

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