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N – Journal or blog?30 September 2009Researchers need better guidance on the value of different communication channels, the Research Information Network has concluded in a report based on literature review, bibliometric analysis, focus groups, interviews, and […]
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N – Medical ghostwriting is rife29 September 2009Authors published in the New England Journal of Medicine who responded to a survey presented at the sixth peer review congress reported a 10.9% rate of ghostwriting, according to the […]
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N – Most papers find a home29 September 2009Ninety per cent of papers rejected by the New England Journal of Medicine are eventually published elsewhere, showed research presented at the sixth international congress on peer review in Vancouver, […]
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B – Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing27 September 2009Shieber SM. Equity for Open-Access Journal Publishing. PLoS Biol 2009;7(8):e1000165. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000165http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000165 Neither readers nor authors would in principle disagree with the open-access approach, i.e. articles freely available online without any […]
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N – Company sues paper’s contributor for libel20 September 2009The journal Circulation has printed a correction to a paper on a trial at the centre of a libel trial, the BMJ reports (2009;339:b3659). The correction (Circulation 2009;120:e71-2, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.192626) says […]
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N – Dawkins attacks libel law20 September 2009Richard Dawkins has criticised UK libel law because of the “atmosphere of fear and uncertainty” that it creates for scientists who challenge claims about health products, the Guardian reports. The […]
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B – Google Book Search Bibliography15 September 2009Bailey CW, Jr. Google Book Search Bibliography Version 5: 9/14/2009 http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm Selected English-language articles and other works useful in understanding Google Book Search. from evolution of Google Book Search and […]
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B – UNESCO Publication guidelines2 September 2009UNESCO Publication guidelines, 2009 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001816/181619e.pdf Among many existing guidelines to publication, these ones have been created as a handbook for UNESCO staff, but are free for all online. They provide […]
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B – Scientific Publishing Standards26 August 2009Alberts B. Scientific Publishing Standards Science 2008(321)5894: 1271 DOI: 10.1126/science.1165268 http://www.scienceonline.org/cgi/content/full/321/5894/1271 An editorial by the editor in chief of Science, reporting how scientists have the absolute obligation to honesty and […]
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B – Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement24 August 2009Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG, 2009 Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement. PLoS Med 6(7): e1000097. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000097 http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000097 The PRISMA Statement (Preferred […]
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B – Publishing before the thesis: 58 postgraduate views17 August 2009Hartley J, Betts L. Higher Education Review 2009; 41(3):29-44 In this study a draft questionnaire – later defined and assessed in its final form – was submitted to various postgraduate […]
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B – Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation17 August 2009Piper PS. Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation. Searcher 2000; Vol.8 (8) http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm A good guide into the world wide web internet hoax sites (that doesn’t sound published […]