Trainee Editor with Advanced Materials
Posted by materialsdave in Science careers, Scientific publishing on 11.12.2009
Interested in a career in scientific publishing? Advanced Materials is looking for a new trainee editor.
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts Wiley Fosters Engagement with Chinese Research Community through MaterialsViewsChina.com
Posted by materialsdave in Scientific publishing on 01.12.2009
Here’s the outcome of a project I’ve been working on…
Beijing, Shanghai; China – December 1, 2009 — John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), has launched the Chinese version of its Materials Views website.
MaterialsViewsChina.com is a dedicated news service for materials science, chemistry, and physics in Chinese and is a specially tailored companion to the popular English service MaterialsViews.com. It will provide high quality original content selected and written by professional editors and will be updated regularly. The website is aimed at Chinese-speaking researchers, scientists, and students in industry and academia across the world.
Keeping scholarly sources safe for future generations with CLOCKSS
Posted by materialsdave in Technology on 10.09.2009
I wrote an article on CLOCKSS for MaterialsViews.com. It’s an interesting partnership between publishers and libraries that plans for the possibility that a journal could go permanently offline for any number of reasons, leaving subscribers unable to access content that they had paid for and needed for their research. CLOCKSS will preserve access to scholarly sources of information, like online journals and books, for future generations of researchers.
Cover Story: Amping up the Protein Power
Posted by Lisa in Scientific publishing on 08.09.2009
Proteins are tremendously versatile materials that self-assemble into amazingly complex structures. Now, Silke Behrens and co-workers have used proteins to self-assemble metal nanoparticles, as featured on the most recent cover of Advanced Materials. In this guest post, Lisa Wylie explains the science behind the image and how the cover was designed.
Interested in doing a materials science PhD or postdoc in Europe?
Posted by materialsdave in Science careers on 03.09.2009
Are you interested in doing a PhD or postdoc in Europe? A new European Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) has 14 PhD and 7 postdoc openings.
Publishing ethics: Definitions of authorship
Posted by materialsdave in Scientific publishing on 02.09.2009
Defining authorship is a common topic when discussing publishing ethics in scientific journals. On his Everyday Scientist blog, Sam Lord summarizes an interesting case at Stanford where a student’s name was allegedly removed from a patent application by the advisor. (Some of the text in a followup application was allegedly plagiarized by the advisor from the student’s thesis, but that’s a different issue.) How, then, is authorship of a journal article defined? And, how might it differ from the inventors listed on a patent application, which has its own set of rules?
How to read solar cell data
Posted by materialsdave in Materials science on 01.09.2009
If you’ve ever wondered what open-circuit potential, short-circuit current density, fill factor, or power conversion efficiency means, Ψ*Ψ over on the Carbon-Based Curiosities blog has a nice graphical introduction on how to read I-V curves for characterizing solar cells.
Impact factors and citation rates: A natural experiment with unethical “twins”
Posted by materialsdave in Scientific publishing on 26.08.2009
Philip Davis at The Scholarly Kitchen summarizes a recently published paper on the effects of journal impact factor on article citation rates that takes advantage of an unusual set of twins.
Looking for materials science employment?
Posted by materialsdave in Science careers on 20.08.2009
Are you a materials scientist, chemist, or physicist looking for a job? Then check out the new materialsdave.com Materials Jobs page, where you can find the latest materials science jobs in both industry and academia.
Book review: Writing Scientific Research Articles
Posted by materialsdave in Book reviews on 17.08.2009
Writing Scientific Research Articles is targeted to researchers who want to improve their success rate of publishing in international journals. This audience might include graduate students and postdocs at the beginning of their scientific careers, or more experienced researchers who nevertheless have not extensively published in higher impact journals for whatever reasons.
The co-authors, Margaret Cargill and Patrick O’Connor, wrote the book as a workbook to accompany a short course on scientific publishing, with exercises and discussion questions, although it can also be used for individual study.
The book begins with a discussion of conventional research article structures and what criteria reviewers use to evaluate manuscripts. Over a few chapters, the next section goes through the design of figures, writing an effective and motivating introduction, discussing the presented results, and developing an effective title and abstract. Read the rest of this entry »
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