Publishing – The CV Tribune

Leaky peer-review system

Christian Velten — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:47:29 +0000

The peer-review principle for scientific publications is a well established and sound approach to ensure publication quality ... in theory. In real life it is regularly found to be leaky. This is a current example, reported by Retraction Watch

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Moving online

Christian Velten — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:50:00 +0000

Please forgive a best-ager this melancholic flashback. But one of the most inspiring projects during my career was the successful migration of a business publication from print to online around the turn of the millennium. “Inside-Lifescience” was a multi-channel online-magazine covering latest news and trends in life science, pharma and biotechnology. But let’s start with [...]

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Scientific information – where are the visions?

Christian Velten — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:21:33 +0000

Well, honestly, things are on the move these days. Scientists and publishers are discussing new ways of publishing scientific results. EMBO starts an initiative to set up a platform that will provide services relating to access and retrieval of digital information in the life sciences, ranging from bibliographic or factual data to published full text [...]

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The value of information

Christian Velten — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:17:07 +0000

Two weeks ago I participated in a strategy workshop organized by Arthur D. Little and the German Ministry for Education and Science (BMBF). As part of our talks we discussed the value of scientific information as well as the existing scientific information distribution and access structures. As two major problems we identified that scientists are [...]

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BIONEWS/Inside-Lifescience eZine published

Christian Velten — Fri, 07 Apr 2000 15:42:00 +0000

In the early 2000’s, I designed and realized one of the first German online magazines on Life Science business on behalf of GIT Publishing Ltd.. Concept and implementation included a multi-channel publishing approach. That was publishing the same content on a website (eZine), via an email-newsletter, and as WAP edition for PDAs and mobile phones (at those pre-smartphone, pre-Android [...]

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