Open access has been the pivotal change in relations between libraries and academic publishers in the last decade. Not only has it introduced a potentially disruptive business model threatening the publishing ecosystem, but it has also put the individual researcher back into the fray. The long-term impact of the emerging pattern of different forms of publishing has been largely overlooked so fa...

The article analyzes the relations between the process of academic modernization at the University of Buenos Aires in the mid-1950s and the individuals who led this process, influenced by innovative views, transformations, and people from the Faculty of Medicine. This reconstruction of the debates, proposals, and actual changes at the Faculty focuses especially on Alfredo Lanari, who, at the Fi...

The development of very powerful intelligent information systems requires the use of many techniques best derived by studying human understanding methods. RESEARCHER is a system that reads, remembers, generalizes from, and answers questions about complex technical texts, patent abstracts in particular. In this paper we discuss three current areas of research involving RESEARCHER the generalizat...

g0030 codebook A guide to the database that the researcher is creating—a guide sufficiently rich that it not only enables the researcher to code his or her data reliably but also allows others to replicate, reproduce, update, or build on the variables housed in the database, as well as any analyses generated from it. g0005 observable implications (or expectations or hypotheses) What we expect t...

In clinical research there is a real possibility to have some conflict of interests. Even for the researcher, the identification of these conflicts cannot be clear. There are many aspects to be considered, involving all participants of the process: the research subject, the researcher, the institution where the research is carried through, the sponsor, the ethics committees, the regulating agen...

The role of growth factors in pregnancy is a rapidly expanding subject. With the advent of molecular biological techniques more and more detailed information is available to the researcher. This review does not attempt to be exhaustive in its coverage of growth factors in pregnancy, rather it tries to give a brief taste of the possible roles that they may play in pregnancy by considering three ...