What is the difference between the Impact score and the Significance score as part of the new enhanced review criteria for NIH applications?  A clarification to the notice was issued in January 2010 announcing the development of a working group to develop additional guidance on this issue.
For more information on Impact vs. Significance, see the [...]

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Two new tools (SNIP and SJR) have been added to the Journal Analyzer feature on Scopus.com and are publicly accessible. The indicators provide greater currency and flexibility in journal performance measurement.

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Interesting reading on author rights by Timothy Armstrong. An excerpt follows:
There are good reasons to retain your copyright rather than assigning it to the publisher. Why might you prefer this?
• They don’t need it. Publishers can do all the things they might legitimately want to do with your work (publish it, put it on their [...]

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Authors are encouraged to anticipate their future use of the work and retain any or all of the rights they may need to achieve their academic and professional goals. Authors may want to retain rights to do the following:

Make copies of the work for educational use, including class notes, study guides or electronic reserves
Use part [...]

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