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N – How to measure OA7 November 2011There’s no shortage of facts and figures about the growth (or lack of growth, depending how you read the numbers) of open access publishing. A recent post on the Imaginary […]
N – DOI as URL7 November 2011CrossRef has announced a new format for the display of digital object indentifiers (DOIs). All organisations are now encouraged to use the URL format http://dx.doi.org/doi wherever a DOI appears. This […]
N – Edited news is good news7 November 2011Another boost for editors: readers prefer news articles that have been profesionally edited. The research, sponsored by the American Copy Editors Society (ACES), also found that readers were more concerned […]
N – From MathML to MathJax7 November 2011Presenting mathematical formulae correctly has always been tricky for publishers, whatever the medium. It’s especially difficult when you are delivering a range of mathematical content via multiple online platforms. An […]
N – ALPSP awards7 November 2011The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)’s Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing has gone this year to Cliff Morgan of John Wiley & Sons, in recognition his […]
N – Interoperability options7 November 2011The number of open access institutional repositories has been rising steadily, but the real value lies in the potential to create a linked network of these repositories. The Confederation of […]
N – Data centres as curators7 November 2011There is much debate about mandatory versus optional policies for self-archiving or repository deposition. A new report from Research Information Network and JISC takes a step back and looks at […]
N. Philosophical Transactions now online29 October 2011During the International Open Access Week (October 24-28) the Royal Society announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been […]
B – Ethical guidelines by professional societies10 October 2011Zigmond MJ. Making ethical guidelines matter. American Scientist 2011;99(4):296(doi: 10.1511/2011.91.296) Today more than 50 scientific societies have written guidelines on research ethics for their members. These societies are uniquely positioned […]
B – Do authors deliberately commit research fraud?10 October 2011Steen RG. Retractions in the scientific literature: do authors deliberately commit research fraud? Journal of Medical Ethics 2011;37:113-117(doi: 10.1136/jme.2010.038125) A study was undertaken to test the “deliberate fraud” hypothesis that […]
B – Conflicts of interest for medical publishers and editors10 October 2011Desai SS, Shortell CK. Conflicts of interest for medical publishers and editors: protecting the integrity of scientific scholarship. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2011;54(3):59S-63S(doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2011.05.111) This article discusses the potential conflicts […]
B – Reading scientific articles6 October 2011Lang TA. The illusion of certainty and the certainty of illusion: a caution when reading scientific articles. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2011;2(2):118-123 The article provides an example […]