How We Searched Literature in the Pre-Internet Era

How the pre-islamic persian literature passed to the arabs

Literature citations in the Internet era.

J. A. EVANS’S REPORT “ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION AND THE NARROWING OF SCIENCE AND scholarship” (18 July, p. 395) suggests that (i) the average age of citations to scientific papers dropped over the years as more electronic papers became accessible and (ii) the citations are concentrated on a smaller proportion of papers and journals. Such conclusions are not warranted by Evans’s data. To measure th...

Review of “The People Vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It)” by Jamie Bartlett

The People Vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It) by Jamie Bartlett. New York: Dutton, 2018. 256 pp., £8.99 (p/b), ISBN 978-1785039065.

How do we keep up with the literature? The era of formalized evidence-based medicine (EBM)

The era of formalized evidence-based medicine (EBM) coincided with the widespread use of computers, development of software, and computerised medical informatics. There has also been an exponential increase in the literature. In their paper titled,” Seventy-five trials and eleven systematic reviews a day: how will we ever keep up?,”1 the authors draw attention to the flood of information that d...

How to prosper in the era of the Internet

Editor's Note: By all accounts Béla Hatvany gave one of the most stimulating Miles Conrad Lectures in the history of the talk. He gave it live and without a script. Fortunately the tape recorders were running. The talk that unfolded from the floor was more like poetry and fine prose than a technical paper. Perhaps that is what kept the audience spellbound. In editing this transcript we have don...