Don't let microbial samples perish

Publish or perish, publish and perish.

Aiming the internationalization, BDS intensifies actions for establishing multidisciplinary partnerships, for searching institutional support, and for educating the national scientific community about the importance of valuing national science. The media for exposing this knowledge must be a national media. Publishing quality Brazilian science in national journals using international language m...

Publish or perish

When scientists bemoan the relentless pressure to publish or perish, they rarely spare a thought for the effect of this pressure on the publisher. For some reason, the publisher, and minions such as editors, are blamed for being the main barrier to the process of publication. At the same time, publishers are blamed for the ridiculous proliferation in journals of all kinds, especially those that...

Receive aid or perish

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are acknowledged as being pivotal to poverty alleviation, especially in African countries where the governments’ capacity and revenue are often very limited. Despite their prominent role in developing countries, little is known about how these organisations function. Can NGOs prosper when they are financially reliant on donations and contributions from the ...

Publish or perish?

Publish and perish?

Medical libraries are experiencing a funding crunch. Although this is not specific to medical libraries (1), funding of libraries is an issue that spans the continent (2,3). At the University of California San Diego (UCSD), the Medical Libraries proposed subscription to 1250 titles in 1997/1998. This represented a 48% decrease since 1991/1992! Faculty pleas resulted in a last minute “temporary ...