The Great Science Publishing Scandal

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

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

10 reasons to love libraries

The British Library held and event, For the Love of Libraries with authors authors Philip Pullman, Salley Vickers and Jacqueline Wilson along with the CEO of the Reading Agency, Sue Wilkinson. The blog post 10 reasons to love libraries summarises the event.

How might Plan S affect chemistry research?

Plan S aims to make publicly funded research openly available after 1st January 2020. 

With this in mind the Royal Society of Chemistry has prepared a five-minute video that discusses Plan S, and the wider implications of the move to open access for the chemistry community.

Plan S, and how it could shape open access as a whole, is a developing topic, and it is one that the Royal Society of Chemistry aims to help you navigate. 

Watch the Royal Society of Chemistry's video about Plan S and chemistry research.

WomeninSTM Reading List from Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press have put together some reading about women that have contributed a wealth of knowledge and experience in the Science, Technology, and Medicine fields (STM), to help the progression of society.

Explore a collection of chapters online featuring just a few of these women in medicine, such as Marie Curie, Florence Stoney, Cicely Saunders, Rosalyn Yalow, and Mary Broadfoot Walker.

http://oxfordmedicine.com/newsitem/477/womeninstm-reading-list

Managing your references with EndNote - Webinar 28/02/2019

This webinar is organised and delivered by staff at Web of Science. lt will include:

• a typical workflows researchers follow to manage relevant publications they have discovered and correctly cite them in a publication of their own. 
• The use of Kopernio to help pull together full text and metadata 
• Use of the online and desktop versions of EndNote. Please be aware that Birkbeck only has access to the online version. 

•             Date Thursday 28th February at 10am London (45 mins).

•             Registration link: https://clarivatesupport.webex.com/clarivatesupport/k2/j.php?MTID=t19ed53e2defff8c810b7f5de24d649a1  

Celebrate Chinese New Year with Springer - free access to papers and books chapters for a limited time...

Read influential publications by Chinese authors for free! 

Get 100 papers & 88 book chapters in all subject areas.100 papers & 88 book chapters in all subject areas.

This access runs up until 20th 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