We discuss the responsibility and the potentiality of university libraries taking a cue from the anecdotes of Knorozov and Borges. We argue that the fundamental reason for the absence of the fast progress in digitization of books is not the obstacles in copyright law, but the design of current tablet-type devices which are incomplete as books. We contemplate the possibility of a revival of microfiche using nanotechnology, and the possibility of analog e-books and their preservation in ultra-reduced form.
We report on the 39th Meeting on Medical Information Services (MIS39@Nagoya), held on July 13-14, 2024, at the Sakurayama Campus of Nagoya City University, Aichi, Japan. This meeting marked the 40th anniversary of MIS, and for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was held exclusively in a face-to-face format, attracting 167 participants. This report provides an overview of the meeting, outlines the program content, using digital tools, and other aspects of the event’s execution.
In this account, the development of Select Crowd Reviewing from the initial idea through a pilot phase to the present moment, when it is now used as the default method for the evaluation of manuscripts at Synlett and SynOpen is detailed. We describe the workflow through which a manuscript is evaluated when Select Crowd Reviewing is applied. A series of questions and answers is used to address typical concerns and the advantages Select Crowd Reviewing offers when compared to traditional peer review.