{"id":3478,"date":"2009-03-10T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/10\/links-for-2009-03-10\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T05:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T05:00:35","slug":"links-for-2009-03-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/10\/links-for-2009-03-10\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-03-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southernlibrarianship.icaap.org\/content\/v09n03\/mcguigan_g01.html\">The Business of Academic Publishing<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;This statement by Deutsche Bank is an astonishing comment on the profitability of the industry.  The notion that Elsevier, and therefore the other commercial publishers, add \u00e2\u0080\u009clittle value to the publishing process\u00e2\u0080\u009d and cannot justify the high profit margins is significant.  This statement by Deutsche Bank, while aimed towards investors, reveals the skepticism of investment analysts regarding the value that Elsevier, and therefore other firms with similar business models, claim to add to the publishing process.<\/p>\n<p>If the large publishers provide little value-added, what explains their apparently high profit margins and ability to consistently raise prices? &quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journals\">journals<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayherald.com\/news\/heraldnews\/display.var.2494129.0.0.php\">The Sunday Herald &#8211; Scotland&#8217;s award-winning independent newspaper<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;PLANS TO refurbish Trident nuclear weapons had to be put on hold because US scientists forgot how to manufacture a component of the warhead, a US congressional investigation has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) &quot;lost knowledge&quot; of how to make a mysterious but very hazardous material codenamed Fogbank. As a result, the warhead refurbishment programme was put back by at least a year, and racked up an extra $69 million.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/war\">war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/nuclear\">nuclear<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/29599215\">It&#8217;s Hip To Snip During March Madness &#8211; Sports Biz with Darren Rovell &#8211; CNBC.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Hey to Abel Pharmboy: &quot;Last year, the Oregon Urology Institute got plenty of press by encouraging people to get their vasectomies while watching the NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/sports\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/medicine\">medicine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/basketball\">basketball<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Business of Academic Publishing &quot;This statement by Deutsche Bank is an astonishing comment on the profitability of the industry. The notion that Elsevier, and therefore the other commercial publishers, add \u00e2\u0080\u009clittle value to the publishing process\u00e2\u0080\u009d and cannot justify the high profit margins is significant. This statement by Deutsche Bank, while aimed towards investors,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/03\/10\/links-for-2009-03-10\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-03-10<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}