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B – Medical ghostwriting8 July 2010Lacasse JR, Leo J. Ghostwriting at elite academic medical centers in the United States. PLoS Med. 2010 February;7(2): e1000230(doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000230) Medical ghostwriting, the practice of pharmaceutical companies secretly authoring journal […]
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B – Business in medical writing: a monographic issue7 July 2010Business. The Write Stuff. The Journal for European Medical Writers Association 2010; 19 (2): 78-163 A monographic issue of The Write Stuff (TWS), journal of the European Medical Writers Association […]
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N – DOIs in the popular press7 July 2010The CrossRef newsletter reports on the appearance of DOIs (digital object indentifiers) in the mainstream media, giving readers a reliable way to access the original research. An example can be […]
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B – Do reviews deserve their citations?6 July 2010Wiley S. Down with reviews: review articles simply don’t deserve all the citations they receive. The Scientist 2010;24:31. http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/57236/ The number of review articles and review journals has grown over […]
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N – Royal Society journals free for July6 July 2010For the month of July, the Royal Society will make all of its journal content completely free to view. That’s over 350 years of papers, letters, reviews, and opinions accessible […]
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N – EndNote gets an upgrade2 July 2010Thomson Reuters has released a major new version of the popular bibliographic management software EndNote. The new version, codenamed X4, enables users to import PDFs and offers a neater ‘Cite […]
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N – Springer Opening Up2 July 2010Springer Science+Business Media, owner of BioMedCentral (BMC), is launching a series of new open access e-journals under the banner SpringerOpen (http://www.springeropen.com). Taking inspiration, expertise and technology from BMC, SpringerOpen will […]
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N – Peer review turned around2 July 2010Elsevier is piloting a new approach to peer review: let the reviewers choose what they want to review. The new system, called PeerChoice, will be trialed for 3 months in […]
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B – Sources of dissemination bias2 July 2010Bowden J, Jackson D, Thompson SG. Modelling multiple sources of dissemination bias in meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine 2010;29:945-955. DOI: 10.1002/sim.3813 Asymmetry in the funnel plot for a meta-analysis suggests dissemination […]
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B – Open access survey2 July 2010Björk BC, Welling P, Laakso M, et al. Open access to the scientific journal literature: situation 2009. PLoS One 2010;5:e11273. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011273 A survey published in PLoS ONE found that 1 […]
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B – Preparing raw clinical data for publication18 June 2010Hrynaszkiewicz I, Norton ML, Vickers AJ et al. Preparing raw clinical data for publication: guidance for journal editors, authors, and peer reviewers. Trials 2010;11:9(doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-11-9) Many peer-reviewed journals require that […]
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B – Repositories and journals: are they in conflict?18 June 2010Brown DJ. Repositories and journals: are they in conflict? A literature review of relevant literature. Aslib Proceedings 2010;62(2).112-43(doi: 10.1108/00012531011034955) The paper aims to bring together information on whether any evidence […]