Journal : Bookshelf


"The Editor's Bookshelf" forms part of each issue of European Science Editing. It lists and briefly describes articles and books likely to be of interest to editors of publications in the sciences.


Blog for contributions to the Editor's Bookshelf

Work in progress to be published in the journal can now be viewed online in the EASE Journal Blog, which now also includes articles for the News Notes and This Site I Like sections of the journal.

If you would like to contribute to the blog please contact the section coordinators, Paola de Castro (paola.decastro@iss.it) or Penny Hubbard (pennylhubbard@gmail.com), who will be glad to receive details of articles, books or websites of interest to editors.

Contributions in European languages other than English, especially in French or German, are welcome, as well as contributions in English. 

Entries are arranged (roughly) by topic under each heading, not alphabetically by author. We regret that copies of the material referred to in these entries cannot be supplied. Many thanks to those who have sent contributions.

For more information about EASE and European Science Editing see EASE's home page and the other links listed on the left.

Disclaimer: Although we hope that the bibliographic details below are correct we cannot guarantee their total accuracy, nor can EASE accept responsibility for any problems arising from possibly incorrect information included here.


The Bookshelf contents are listed under the following headings:

Economics and funding
Editorial process
Ethical issues
Information retrieval
Language and writing
Publishing
Research evaluation
Science


Thanks to the following for their contributions to the Editor's Bookshelf:

Vol 35(4), November 2009:
John Glen, James Hartley, Daniela Marsili, Renata Solimini, and Massimo Antonucci.

Vol 35(3), August 2009:
Enrico Alleva, Margaret Cooter, John Glen, James Hartley,  Joan Marsh, Eleonora Lacorte, Courtney Phillips, Françoise Salager-Meyer, and Renata Solimini

Vol 35(2), May 2009:
Emma Campbell, Eleonora Lacorte, Francoise Salager-Meyer, John Glen, James Hartley, and Renata Solimini

Vol 35(1), February 2009:
David Mason, Moira Johnson-Vekony, Greg Cotton, and Maeve O’Connor for photographs, and Eleonora Lacorte, Margaret Cooter, John Glen, James Hartley, and Renata Solimini for contributions

Vol 34(4), November 2008:
Eleonora Della Corte, Margaret Cooter, John Glen, Andrew Herxheimer, Joan Marsh, and Elise Langdon-Neuner

Vol 34(3), August 2008:
Penny Hubbard, Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, Margaret Cooter, and Renata Solimini

Vol 34(2), May 2008:
Emma Campbell, Margaret Cooter, Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, James Hartley, Penny Hubbard, Arjan Polderman, and Renata Solimini

Vol 34(1), February 2008:
Penny Hubbard, Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, and Margaret Cooter

Vol 33(4), November 2007:
Eleonora Lacorte, John Glen, and Renata Solimini

Vol 33(3), August 2007:
Margaret Cooter, John Glen, and Renata Solimini

Vol 33(2), May 2007:
John Glen and Renata Solimini

Vol 33(1), February 2007:
Renata Solimini



Latest additions to the Bookshelf


Journal : Bookshelf : Science
Vol 35(4), November 2009 - Nov 15, 2009 - 7:03 PM
  • There are no articles on the above topic in this issue.
Journal : Bookshelf : Research evaluation
Vol 35(4), November 2009 - Nov 15, 2009 - 6:56 PM
  • Allen L, Jones C,  Dolby K,  Lynn D, Walport M. Looking for landmarks: the role of expert review and bibliometric analysis in evaluating scientific publication outputs. PLoS ONE. 2009;4(6):e5910.

  • Bollen J, Van de Sompel H,  Hagberg A, Chute R. A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures. PLoS ONE. 2009;4(6):e6022.

  • Bourne PE, Fink JL. I am not a scientist, I am a number. PLoS Computational Biology 2008;4(12):e1000247.

  • Safer MA, Tang R. The psychology of referencing in psychology journal articles. Perspective on Psychological Science 2009;4(1):51–53.

  • Zhang C-T. The e-index, complementing the h-Index for excess citations. PLoS ONE 2009;4(5):e5429.
Journal : Bookshelf : Publishing
Vol 35(4), November 2009 - Nov 15, 2009 - 6:49 PM
  • Bailey CW Jr. Google Book Search Bibliography. 2009. Version 5: 9/14/2009.

  • Cartwright J. Fledgling site challenges arXiv server. Physics World 2009;22(8):9.

  • Hartley J, Betts L. Publishing before the thesis: 58 postgraduate views. Higher Education Review 2009;41(3):29–44.

  • Moher D, Liberati A,  Tetzlaff J, Altman DG. Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. PLoS Medicine 2009;6(7):e1000097.

  • Wieland G. Globalizing science publishing. Science 2009;325(21):920.
Journal : Bookshelf : Language and writing
Vol 35(4), November 2009 - Nov 15, 2009 - 6:47 PM
  • Harley J. Writing an introduction to the introduction. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 2009;39(3):321–329.

  • Langdon-Neuner E. Scientific writing. The Write Stuff 2009;18(2):69–72.
Journal : Bookshelf : Information retrieval
Vol 35(4), November 2009 - Nov 15, 2009 - 6:43 PM
  • There are no articles on the above topic in this issue.
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