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The paper presents the interview with Professor Jela Steinerova, who has been working at the Department of Library and Information Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava since 1992. Her research and publication activities include a number of contributions to the field of information science, with a focus on theory and methodology, information behaviour, information ecology and ethical aspects of digital technologies. She participates in the creation of curriculum at the department and in the coordination of international cooperation within research projects. Her membership on editorial boards of foreign as well as Slovak academic journals, including Information Research, Open Information Science, Mousaion, Proinflow and ITlib proves her exceptional international standing. In general, she can be regarded as one of the most influential personalities in the field of information science on international level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores Conal Conference Alerts (conferencealerts.com) allows for searching academic conferences by topic (social sciences and humanities, mathematics and statistics, physical and life sciences, business and economics) and by country. AllConferences.com (www.allconferences.com) is a global online conference directory that includes conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, expos, and seminars. It is searchable by category, date, country, and venue.

This article focuses on the emergence of digital paper or epaper. The foundation of epaper is based upon the idea that it is easier for your eyes to read text from reflective surface than backlit displays. The broader, long-term goal is to develop a display technology that parallels paper in its readability, familiarity and portability while incorporating the ability to update the display wirelessly. The U.S. Army has established the Army Flexible Display Center to test the variety of existing epaper technology possibilities. Early in 2004 Gyricon announced that it had begun trial testing of its rigid-backed SmartPaper technology for use in grocery and retail stores. Replacing static pricing and unintelligent cash registers, Gyricon's system allows stores to update price displays wirelessly, simultaneously doing the same at the checkout lanes.

Reports on the calls for papers for the spring 2006 American Chemical Society national meeting in the U.S. Publication of the preliminary program for the meeting; Citation of the society bylaw governing papers; Deadline for the submission of papers for presentation.

A call for papers for the spring 2010 national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is presented.

Reports on the Special Libraries Association's (SLA) acceptance of submissions for its Conference Professional Papers in Nashville, Tennessee. Deadlines; Length presentation of the paper; Requirements for papers submitted.

The article presents a comparison on the environmental impact of paper bags and plastic bags. According to a study conducted by Boustead Consulting, the manufacturing of 1,000 paper bags incorporate 30% recycled content, uses 2,622 MJ of energy versus 763 MJ for the production of enough plastic bags. The paper bags generate 33.9 kg of solid municipal waste versus 7.0 kg for plastic. The study also found that 1,000 paper bags generate twice as much greenhouse gas emissions than plastic bags.

The article focuses on the research by Eva Malmstrom and coworkers at Royal Institute of Technology, which shows that filter paper can be turned into a water-resistant cleaning material. The team employed a process known as atom transfer radical polymerization to graft the fiber surfaces with a superhydrophobic fluorinated polymer layer.

The article reports on the development of a new kind of paper by the Technical Research Centre of Finland in January 2006. This was done by replacing oil-based fillers and coating pigments with materials derived from potato starch. The center has chemically modified the potato starch, making it as hydrophobic as the oil-based materials it is replacing, but at a lighter weight.

The article offers information on a nation's economy is described in numbers, but academicians use words to explain those numbers. It discusses that Scholarly papers forecasting the state of the economy are more than equally matched with opinion pieces in the daily press that also attempt to forecast the state of the economy; and mentions that EconLit, the primary database covering the scholarly literature of economics, is produced by the American Economic Association (AEA).

The article investigates the potential use of composted recycled paper in treating plant diseases by researchers from Warwickshire, England. A research team led by Professor Ralph Noble has shown that composted recycled paper can cut plant disease by as much as 72 percent. Results from trials with conifers using compost made from paper waste indicate that it is providing similar disease suppressing effect as green compost made from plant waste. According to Professor Noble, suppression of plant diseases was particularly noticeable when the green and recycled paper composts were added to peat.

The article highlights the author's favorite open search tools for finding open arts and humanities content. Topics discussed include the JURN search tool, which discovers the full text of open journals in the arts and humanities; the sister tool of JURN called GRAFT, which searches the world's academic repositories, and the extremely poor semantic interpretation of queries resulting in subsequent slowing down of Paperity, a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.

In 2017, librarians in the Information Services Office (ISO) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) expanded ISO's bibliometric analysis services to include topical network analysis, bibliographic text mining, and deeper collaborations with stakeholders. The new services help NIST divisions and offices systematically assess research portfolios, document internal and external collaborations, and identify strategic areas for future research. While robust quantitative analysis has been the key to conducting bibliometric analyses and creating visualizations, collaborative relationships with customers are just as critical to understanding impacts and delivering the right answers to the right questions. This paper describes several use cases highlighting the new services, including a network visualization and cluster analysis to identify emerging research topics; an exploration of keywords in a single research area over the course of a decade; and a structured evaluation of collaborations within and outside of our institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses research being done on the effects of cocoa on antioxidant status, inflammation, and heart disease risk in humans. It references a study published in the August 2007 issue of the "British Journal of Nutrition." Researchers said that it is still unclear how much and what type of chocolate is necessary to obtain potential health benefits.

The article highlights allergen research papers presented during the 2008 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Food Expo that was held on June 28-July 1, 2008. One paper explored ways to improve the extraction of almond proteins from processed foods. Another research explored the immunoreactivity of soluble proteins extracted from 51 species of cooked food finfish, 3 types of shellfishm and 13 species of meat and poultry to anti-parvalbumin antibodies.

The International Association of Business Communicators Research Foundation has announced Requests for Proposals for two new research projects, as of October 2003. One focuses on Effective Use of Communication Policies and the other explores Supervisor/Employee Communication Best Practices. The foundation is also launching its 2004 Call for Papers program for students and practitioners. The program provides monetary awards and other recognition for the best scholarly papers on organizational communication.

In urban rail-bound systems, operation of trains is influenced not only by the disturbances in the rail-bound system itself, but also by other modes of transport like road traffic in various urban mixed traffic zones. In this paper, two simulation-based approaches for modeling road traffic influences on urban railbound transport, modeling approach and distribution approach, are presented as a resulting integrated model including influences of road traffic and calibration of disturbances based on a suitable probability distribution with significant disturbance parameters respectively. The explanation of the approaches in the first part of the article is followed by aspects of applicability in the second part. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information related to the 2008-2009 Research Paper Contest of Bayer MaterialScience. The company encourages young and aspiring Chinese researchers to think creatively about water-borne and UV coatings, as well as solvent-borne products to be used in new applications. The initiative has received the support of prestigious organizations like China Academy of Science & Technology, Chengdu Waterborne Research Center, and Marine Research Institute of Chemical Industry.

The article reports that a special committee has issued a call for papers concerning animal mortality disposal to be presented at the National Carcass Disposal Symposium which will be held on December 4-7, 2006 in Beltsville, Maryland. The organizing committee is composed of representatives of the Maine Compost Team, Cornell Waste Management Institute, and Iowa State Extension. The goal is to conduct a research and to influence public policy concerning animal carcasses and animal mortality disposal.

Reports on Erie, Pennsylvania-based Inland Research Co.'s sale of research to small newspapers. Compilation of the secondary research from private outfits like the Audit Bureau of Circulations; Selection of Inland by advertising director Ron Capretta to make available research to Youngstown, Ohio-based `Vindicator'; Average fee charged by Inland to do research work. INSET: Report for the Vindicator..

Calls for research paper submissions for the International Fluid Power Exposition 2005 Technical Conference. Key segments of the conference; Research topic requirements; Contact information.

Calls for papers for the 36th Central Regional Meeting and the Joint Northwest/Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society on June 2004 in the U.S. Schedule and venue of the meeting; Activities and programs; Theme of the meeting; Keynote speakers; Contact information.

Reports that the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) has released 'The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper,' which examines the strategic roles institutional repositories play for colleges and universities. Impact on change and the scholarly communication process of university-based digital collections that preserve faculty research; Repository implementation.

Reports the creativity of the papers presented in the 'Journal of the American Chemical Society' in the U.S. Illustration of a beach scene on the protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Sketch of an angry molecule; Aim of the author to attract readers with the eye-catching graphics.

Reports submission of over 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific research papers to BioMed Central Journals. BioMed Central's commitment to free and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research articles; Support of BioMed from scientists; Concerns over the profit and control that the commercial sector exercises over the scientific community.

Announces that Questia Media, Inc. has launched Questia, as of March 2001, a service that offers students access to a large collection of quality, credible content via the Internet to research and compose papers. Availability of the service; Number of titles available in the humanities and social sciences disciplines, with plans to expand further; Cost.

The article focuses on fungal and bacterial infections research related to contact lens users. In August 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the results of its investigation into the U.S. cases of Fusarium keratitis in soft contact lens users. An editorial in the September 2006 issue of Contact Lens & Anterior Eye looked at the implications of the outbreak for lens care product manufacturers and patients' lens care and handling procedures.

Reports on the development of a new policy by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) requiring scientists to release to the public manuscripts describing NIH-funded research in the U.S. Availability on the copy of the new policy at the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central; Benefits of the public on the release of the manuscripts of scientists; Cost on the release of research published in journals.

Focuses on the effect of noise exposure on humans and other animals during the 8th International Congress on Noise. Papers regarding sleep-disturbance research; Community response to environmental noise; Important negative effects of noise.

The article focuses on increase in the publication of fake news. Topics discussed include information on withdrawal of scientific papers from publication for a variety of reasons, including fraud and duplicate publication; request forwarded by the regulatory body, such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for correcting financial statements of a company; and importance of skepticism in business research.

Information about several papers discussed at the 9th International Symposium at Berlin on February 21- 22, 2013 is presented. Winston Rasaiah from Great Britain Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) spoke on railroads safety implementations in Great Britain. Dr. Kazuma Nakai, Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan spoke on passenger behavior in commuter train level crossing accidents. Maryna Sobolevska from National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine spoke on electric locomotives safety.

The author discusses the components of telephone research. She describes the unique characteristics of phone research that seems obvious but that has major implications. She warns that the very fact that someone is calling about a topic may expose guarded information or fuel speculation. She also offers different approaches involve in competitive intelligence research. In addition, the author enumerates the issues information professionals need to clarify with the client, including the purpose of the research and the publication of papers by journals.

Presents information on the 2003 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium held from June 18 through 13, 2003 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Number of research papers received for the symposium; Social events of the symposium; Details of the exhibition also held during the symposium.

Describes the importance of information technology in the aspects of research in the U.S. Management of raw scientific data; Problems with paper laboratory notebooks; Co-existence of sophisticated computing.

The article offers information on the Figshare for Institutions, a cloud-based repository that enables universities and colleges to host datasets, papers, videos, and other research outputs and make them publicly available, from Figshare LLP.

The article presents an overview of open access (OA) and explains key issues relating to unrestricted online access to scholarly publications. It discusses the creation of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) in late 2008, and professors Robin Peek and Peter Suber's launch of an Open Access Directory wiki in April 2008. It considers the issue of how much it should cost to publish scholarly papers, and distinguishes Gratis OA with Libre OA.

The article focuses on the growth of the number of chemistry patents and research publication in China. It cites the reports of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) that China became the world's leader in terms of chemistry patents published yearly and of Thomson Reuters that its growth in scholarly papers outpaces that of other nations. According to Sunny Wang, the growth is driven by the economic development and awareness on the importance of intellectual property protection.

The article discusses the issues facing chemistry researchers when their experimental work cannot be reproduced. It cites the case of Dalibor Sames, a professor of chemistry at Columbia University, who retracted five papers from the "Journal of the American Chemical Society" claiming that the work of co-author Bengu Sezen cannot be reproduced. Harvard chemistry professor George M. Whitesides notes that the issue of reproducibility varies from field to field.

The article presents the second part in a series of papers which examine the influence of bias on audiology and speech language pathology research in the U.S. Scientists have developed controls for minimizing bias and accounting for their effects. However, in an era of evidence-based practice, clinicians should recognize that their clinical expectancies can cloud their judgments about a treatment's outcome.

Highlights the 2004 SIGGRAPH in the U.S. Attendees; Emphasis on research phototypes and full-fledged products; Quality of research papers presented.

Present the author's experience in researching and writing papers before the Internet. How research was done by hand at the library; Resourcefulness of her laptop computer during graduate school; Use of Google to find the citation for a quote; Assertion that one must use the research method that suits them best.

Reports that the British research funding organization, the Wellcome Trust, will require all papers from new research projects to be deposited within six months of publication in PubMed Central. Statement that the British National Institutes of Health have made its policy on openly archiving the research it funds voluntary.

This article announces that Nature Publishing Group and the Allen Institute for Brain Science has launched the Neuroscience Gateway, a free online resource for neuroscience and genomics research. The Neuroscience Gateway, which was available in early May 2006, provides the latest papers, neuroscience news, and free access to highlights lights of key articles. It will also provide free access to highlighted primary research papers from journals in the Nature family as well as direct access to the Allen Brain Atlas, a freely available scientific resource developed by the Allen Institute.

The article discusses the disadvantages of using the Google search engine. Instead of spending time analyzing material for a term paper on the fall of the Nazi regime, students are using the search engine believing that they have found enough information on the topic. Students lacked research skills and teachers checked Google and other plagiarism search tools for any reference to cheating on papers. Students would not develop critical thinking skills if search engines make it easier to find information.

Presents the content of the research paper on the racial differences in the level of intelligence quotient in the U.S. Questions on the papers assumptions that one group is more intelligent than others; Arguments on the concept of race; View of the health industry on the cause of the differences.

This article relates the benefits of a collaboration between a classroom teacher and a library media specialist in doing a research project. Working collaboratively with other classroom teachers and the library media specialist can transform a tedious assignment into an exciting, memorable project. Not only did the students learn a new skill, but all who were involved also learned something new. As a result of the collaboration on the research paper, the other English teachers signed up with the library media specialist to start their research papers.

This article reports on the top researchers named by Thomson Scientific in 2005. Publishing nine highly cited Hot Papers on Acute Respiratory Syndrome earned the University of Hong Kong's Malik Peiris the title hottest researcher. The Thomson Scientific Hot Papers Database identifies a published work as a Hot Paper if it has achieved a rate of citations in scientific journals that is markedly higher than papers of comparable type and age. The researchers named published the most Hot Papers in the 2-year period reviewed by Thomson Scientific. Only non-review articles, those presenting original research, were considered. The Hottest Researchers are Malik Peiris, Clair M. Fraser, Henry R. Black, Wilina Lira, Kwok-Yung Yuen, Arkady A. Tseytlin, Rory Collins, Ian T. Paulsen, and Jeffrey A. Munn.

Interviews Elsevier Science Chairman Derk Haank regarding the growing interest among authors of scientific papers regarding who publishes them. Petition by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) to boycott any publisher who did not make the published research papers freely available six months after publications; Elsevier Science as the publisher of 20 percent of the world's journal articles; Haank's views on the relationship between PLOS and Elsevier.

The article focuses on collaboration of the research services firm Kudos with the software firm PaperHive for introduction pilot program related to expansion of academic paper publications. It states enhancement of services related to management of social activity with maintenance of codes along with shared data. It mentions views of the Kudos co-founder David Sommer over integration of six months program with usage of plain language summaries in articles.

The article discusses research on experiments on the H5N1 avian flu virus. It references a study by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) published in an issue of "Science." The NSABB cites the need for censoring results from research papers describing controversial experiments on the virus. The two papers covers work on H5N1 where experiments on direct mutations on the virus were done.