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Celeste Sloman
Attorney General Letitia James is no stranger to a fight. After waging battles with the Trump administration, New York’s top legal officer – and the first woman of color to hold statewide office – is keeping her attention trained on the former president’s questionable real estate ventures, while also taking on Facebook, Google, the New York City Police Department and the National Rifle Association. This year, her office issued a damning report on New York’s undercount of nursing home deaths due to COVID-19, and she appointed two independent attorneys to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a former ally who she might be well positioned to replace at some point in the future.
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The Powell Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, is one of many in the 10-campus system involved in the new publishing deal. Wolterk/iStock
California universities and Elsevier make up, ink big open-access deal
Mar. 16, 2021 , 11:00 AM
Two years after a high-profile falling out, the University of California (UC) system and the academic publishing giant Elsevier have patched up differences and agreed on what will be the largest deal for open-access publishing in scholarly journals in North America. The deal is also the world’s first such contract that includes Elsevier’s highly selective flagship journals
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Mar. 1, 2021 , 10:45 AM
For many busy working scientists, receiving yet another invitation from an academic journal to peer review yet another manuscript can trigger groans. The work is time-consuming, and rewards can seem intangible. What’s more, the reviewers work for free, even as the large commercial publishers that operate many journals earn hefty profits.
But despite occasional, exasperated cries of “I should get paid for this,” scientists have soldiered on. Many cite a sense of duty to help advance their disciplines, as well as the need for reciprocity, knowing other researchers volunteer to peer review their manuscript submissions.
But last week, researchers at a scholarly publishing conference debated a provocative question: Should peer reviewers be paid?
Feb. 12, 2021 , 11:20 AM
Seeking to spread the word about a hot new study, some scientists take to Twitter to share a link. But Twitter links rarely attract eyeballs to papers, a recent study finds.
A review of 1.1 million Twitter links to scholarly articles found that half drew no clicks, and an additional 22% attracted just one or two. Only about 10% of the links received more than 10 clicks, according to the 23 January study in the
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
Such meager click rates are not unusual, other studies of Twitter have found. Tweets highlighting stories in media outlets don’t fare much better, on average. But although most research papers included in the new study prompted no clicks, a small minority went viral: An article about freshwater fish contaminated by radioactive cesium released by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster received more than 25,000.