There's no love lost between open access PLoS (Public Library of Science) and print journals. Nature doesn't think much of PLoS, for example, and PLoS says they created the company to make science less insular so it isn't any surprise that that a new PLoS essay by Neal Young, John Ioannidis and Omar Al-Ubaydli claims that the current system of publishing medical and scientific research provides "a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic."

They apply shade-tree-mechanic economics principles to support their idea of the distortion. There is an "extreme imbalance," they say, between the abundance of supply (science laboratories and clinical investigations) and the limited venues for publication (journals with sufficiently high impact to be valuable to the authors - let's come back to that part later). Scientific information, they say, is an economic commodity and the 'consumers' are other scientists, patients, funding agencies, etc.

The result of the imbalance, they note accurately, is that only a small proportion of all research studies are chosen for publication in the best journals, and these results are unrepresentative of scientists' overall work.

NEW YORK, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Asset Control, a world-wide leader in financial data management solutions, today announced that eSecLending, a leading full-service securities lending agent, has chosen Asset Control's AC Plus financial and reference data management software following a rigorous search and selection process.

eSecLending will use AC Plus to support the company's efforts to further increase automation in their securities lending programs which rely on complete and accurate securities data including ratings, end of day prices and corporate actions. AC Plus will help eSecLending in cleansing data and managing exceptions, while supporting increasing volumes and breadth of data.

AMSTERDAM, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier announced today that its flagship product Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, was chosen by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). An international government forum for the discussion of policy issues, the OECD selected Scopus to enhance the research performance analysis it conducts for its member countries as well as non-member countries in the process of economic development.

NEW YORK, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Innovative Flash-based webcasting leader Stream57 has bolstered its international presence by opening its first office outside of the United States, with a new space in London's West End. Designed to serve as the software development company's European headquarters, the new office location is being run by Director of Business Development Daniel J. Lyons III, and went fully operational on October 1st.

KFAR SABA, Israel, and MADRID, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Atos Origin, an international IT services company and InfoGin, a leading pioneer in the field of Web-to-mobile content and functionality adaptation solutions have implemented a web to mobile content adaptation solution. This solution has enabled Telefónica de España mobile business, the largest wireless operator in Spain, to quickly introduce advanced mobile data services to its Spanish subscribers in a successful manner.

LONDON, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

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LONDON, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

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MILPITAS, California, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Adaptec Technology Contributes Performance and Functionality in Industry's First Blade Solution with Shared Storage

Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPT), a global leader in storage solutions, today announced that IBM is integrating its RAID Storage Processor (RSP) technology into the highly successful IBM BladeCenter S, creating the industry's first fully redundant, shared blade storage system. The Adaptec RAID technology being deployed by IBM is part of the technology portfolio of Aristos Logic Corporation that Adaptec acquired in August 2008.

EMERYVILLE, California, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

ProGenTech Limited, a life sciences & diagnostics company based in Shanghai, China and Emeryville, CA has signed a licensing agreement with Human Genetic Signatures, a Sydney, Australia based life science company to gain access to key hospital-acquired infection targets, payment terms were not disclosed.

WATFORD, England, October 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Salmon Limited ("Salmon"), a specialist in delivering eCommerce solutions, today announces the implementation of a new eCommerce platform to support Stylo plc ("Stylo") - the UK's second largest independent shoe retailer - and their brands, including PriceLess, Barratts, Discount Shoe Store, Petitfeet, Big Shoe Boutique and Nineteen Twentyone.

PLZEN, Czech Republic, October 7 /PRNewswire/ --

LENTE Clinic announced today that it had successfully treated its first patients with the third-generation Advance System implant for obstructive sleep apnea.