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B – Editorial. Scientific fraud: action needed in China.10 February 2010Editorial. Scientific fraud action neeeded in China. The Lancet. 2010; 9709(375):94(doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60030-X) Editors at Acta Crystallographica Section E alerted the scientific community to a fraud involving papers they had published in […]
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B – Des sciences à l’école3 February 2010Pierre-Leon T. De Sciences à l’ècole Accedit 2009;10 Given the fact that science education in primary schools is lacking, (although a French article this statement would easily apply to other […]
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B – Quality of advertisements in medical journals2 February 2010Heimans L, van Hylckama Vlieg A, Dekker FW. Are claims of advertisements in medical journals supported by RCTs? Neth J Med 2010;68(1):46-9 It is well known that most medical journals […]
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N – ArXiv seeks cash25 January 2010ArXiv, the e-print repository that transformed the scholarly communication infrastructure of multiple fields of physics and plays an increasingly prominent role in a unified set of global resources for physics, […]
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N – Open access call25 January 2010The Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, a group of representatives from university administration, libraries, information science departments, and the publishing industry, has called for US federally funded research papers to be made […]
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N – Present information agreeably25 January 2010People experience scientific debates as contests between warring cultural factions, and endorse whichever position reinforces their connection to other with whom they share important commitments, says an opinion piece in […]
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B – The health illiteracy problem in the USA20 January 2010Editorial. The health illiteracy problem in the USA. The Lancet 2009;9707 (374):2028(doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)62137-1) Health illiteracy is the inability to comprehend and use medical information, affecting access to and use of health-care […]
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B – Limitations on the publishing of scientific research20 January 2010Meadows J. Limitations on the publishing of scientific research. In: de Leeuw K, Bergstra J (Ed.). The History of Information Security. A Comprehensive Handbook. Elsevier; 2007. p. 29-51(doi:10.1016/B978-044451608-4/50003-1) Journals have […]
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B – Onwards and upwards: science needs governing16 January 2010Onwards and upwards. The Economist 2009 December 19:35-38. Examines scientific, economic, and moral progress. “From theperspective of human progress, science needs governing. Scientificprogress needs to be hitched to what you […]
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B – University Public-Access Mandates Are Good for Science12 January 2010Shulenburger D. University Public-Access Mandates are Good for Science PLoS Biol 2009; 7(11): e1000237. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000237 The ArXiv online digital version of physic articles preprints and post-prints in August of 1991 […]
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N – Journals lack policies on animals11 January 2010Journal editors need to revisit their editorial policies concerning research on animals, a study in the American Journal of Bioethics has concluded (2009;9:55-9, doi:10.1080/15265160903318343). Researchers assessed the policies of a […]
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B – the Article of the Future11 January 2010Emilie Marcus (Editor-in-Chief)Cell. A Publishing Odyssey. 2010 Cell Press has been working for some time on a project they call “the Article of the Future” to rejigger the format of […]