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N – Retracted papers and attempted extortion11 January 2010Two papers recently retracted by Science (2004;303:371-3) and the Journal of the American Chemical Society (2004;126:15654-5) have been linked to an extortion attempt, Nature reports (2009;462:969, doi:10.1038/462969a). Documents seen by […]
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N – Arab world far from knowledge society11 January 2010Arab states have made progress in technology and research, but there is still a long way to go before the region becomes a knowledge society, according to a report described […]
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N – Open access good for Africa11 January 2010“The open access movement removes barriers to academic literature and offers opportunities to participate in the wider research and teaching community, ensuring that Africa does not end up on the […]
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B – The GPP2 guidelines8 January 2010Graf C, Battisti WP, Bridges D, Bruce-Winkler V, Conaty JM, Ellison JM, Field EA, Gurr JA, Marx ME, Patel M, Sanes-Miller C, Yarker YE; International Society for Medical Publication Professionals. […]
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N – Uniform form for competing interests7 January 2010The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has agreed a standardised format for the reporting of competing interests in biomedical research papers, to better help readers understand the relationship between […]
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N – Rap about physics7 January 2010On 30 November experiments resumed at the Large Hadron Collider, and although the LHC Rap has been around for some time, it seems apt to flag it up now. The […]
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N – Backslash backslash a mistake7 January 2010Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the UK scientist who created the World Wide Web, has admitted that two slashes at the front of a web addresses is pointless, the Telegraph reports. Sir […]
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N – The end of impact factors . . . and journals?7 January 2010“Something has just happened that will almost certainly end the tyranny of impact factors and may well mark another step towards the extinction of most scientific journals,” the former editor […]
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N – Scientific American gets female editor7 January 2010Scientific American, the 164 year old magazine, appointed Mariette DiChristina, its first female editor in chief, in December, the Guardian reports. She is the eighth editor in chief at the […]
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N – Living in a world of euphemism7 January 2010Pre-emptive editing by lawyers “forces us to live in a world of euphemism,” said Tracey Brown, managing director of Sense About Science, at a recent panel discussion about English libel […]
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N – Tweeter satirises top stylebook6 January 2010A user of Twitter, the microblogging site (www.twitter.com), has amassed more than 80000 followers, amused by it’s satirising of the AP Stylebook, dubbed “the journalist’s bible” by Associated Press (www.apstylebook.com). […]
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N – New words are not awesome6 January 2010“The stickler-advocated rules of spelling, grammar and punctuation slow the speed of change and allow the language to remain united,” writes David Mitchell in the Guardian, dismissing the annual list […]