Decision-Making for Librarians, Vendors and Publishers

APE - Academic Publishing in Europe: Researchers, Librarians and Publishers

Dr. Karl-Peter Winters (German Association of Publishers and Booksellers, Frankfurt, Germany) opened the Fifth International Conference on Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2010) “Researchers, Librarians and Publishers”. Dr. Winters highlighted that 2009 was yet another important year in the transition to digital publishing, with the topics of reading devices and content carriers gaining more ...

Bilateral Schwartze Sign, Decision-Making for Surgery

Otosclerosis is an otic capsule disorder that leads to progressive conductive and/or sensorineural hearing loss due to stapes footplate fixation and cochlear bone involvement. The disorder is bilateral in 70% of patients and it usually starts between the third and fifth decade. One of its characteristic clinical findings is Schwartze sign which refers to a reddish discoloration over the promont...

Using Rubrics to Collect Evidence for Decision‐Making: What do Librarians Need to Learn?

Caught in the middle: Scholars, publishers, librarians and information revolutions today and tomorrow

All of us – scholars, publishers, librarians – are being pulled apart by the forces of two concurrent revolutions in information access and processing. Every day, we are reminded that Stewart Brand was right: “Information wants to be free, and information wants to be expensive”. Meanwhile, smart appliances and self-driving cars show the way to the Internet of Things in which information is not ...

Smog, Cognition and Real-World Decision-Making

Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in high-stakes markets have to be made. The decision-making process can be vulnerable to environmental stressors. Summarizing the growing economic and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision-making, we first illustrate key physiological and psychologi...