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Borrowed from the school's library. Was reading it on and off for two whole weeks and at last finished it. The second chapter is best, wehre they talk about what creativity is all about, and how difficult it is to define creativity and waht creativity means in the scientific realm; i.e. patents, papers, citations and conference papers.
The other chapters talk about the publishing system in science, how papers are reviewed and types of publications, that the new trend of 'open access' just means the writers pay more so its free for everyone to access. Another chapter talks about what a paper is made up of and what to look out for when reading/writing a paper. then it goes on to talk a little about electronic publishing and bournals or jooks: a mix of journals and books. never heard of it before reading this book. Then it ends of with a short introduction to patents and what can or cannot be patented and the costs of creating one. This part was interesting as i found out you cant patent a software, but can the special code created in the program that does a special task. you cannot patent also a machine so special that only you can operate it, eg. a time machine that only you can operate. Did a little search and found this site that reviews weird patents, quite an enjoyable browse. http://www.bpmlegal.com/weird.html

Below are two leafs from the book i found amusing...'stupid question' hahaha....
Maybe will post up some more tomorrow.