New Rules of Publication: Changing Mores

Changing assessment methods: New rules, new roles

Over the past 20 years, the use of Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) has helped with the teaching of mathematics in engineering schools. However the traditional use of CAS only in math labs has led to a narrow view by the student: the CAS is an additional work, not included in the learning process. The didactic guidelines of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) propose a new teaching-learning...

The rules of the game are changing: Scientific impact factors and publication strategies among logicians

Publication impact factors are more important now than 10 or 20 years ago, both for individual researchers and for journals. Citation indices such as Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Web of Knowledge, (http://wokinfo.com/) or Publish or Perish (www.harzing.com, based on Google Scholar scholar.google.com) are standardly consulted by job selection committees prior to interviewing candidates.1 Indiv...

Changing ethical standards in scientific publication.

New publication

information will be of particular interest to engineers , risk assessors and safety professionals in the chemical industry who have to deal with water reactive chemicals. A new revised and expanded 4th edition of Pharma-zeutische Wirksto¡e by A. Kleemann and J. Engel has been published in English as Pharmaceutical Substances: Bibliography. It contains information on over 2200 pharmaceutical com...

The rules of the game are changing.

Can we move toward sustainable development? Sustainable development occurs when all humans can have fulfilling lives without degrading our planet. In the diagram, the sustainable development box is defined by the Ecological Footprint and the Human Development Index (HDI), an indicator of socioeconomic development. The United Nations considers an THE GLOBAL CONTEXT: THE PLAYING FIELD IS GETTING ...