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N – Australian journal restricts access6 January 2009The Medical Journal of Australia (www.mja.com.au) is restricting online access to general content, excluding research papers, from January 2009 to subscribed users only. The online edition of the journal has […]
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B – Antidepressants. An untold story?6 January 2009Lenzer J, Brownlee S. Antidepressants. An untold story? BMJ 2008;336:532-534 doi:10.1136/bmj.39504.662685.0F This story about antidepressants highlights the ongoing problem of how study results are often distorted by a failure to […]
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N – Weak pound hurts subscriptions6 January 2009The fall in the value of the pound is damaging the budgets of UK university libraries. Costs of subscriptions to foreign research journals from Europe and the United States have […]
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B – Experts still needed. Be suspicious of metric-based research assessment.2 January 2009Experts still needed. There are good reasons to be suspicious of metric-based research assessment. (Editorial) Nature 2009 (457):7-8 doi:10.1038/457007b There are different kinds of metrics for research, but they do […]
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N – BMJ: 10 years of free access29 December 2008After 10 years of providing free access to its peer reviewed research online, the BMJ is officially an open access journal. In 1998 it started to provide free access to […]
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N – International open access day29 December 2008The 14 October was open access day 2008, with the goal “to broaden awareness and understanding of open access, including recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international higher education […]
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N – More resources with open access29 December 2008The Bahrain Medical Bulletin went open access from December 2008 and is published under a copyright that allows readers to reuse the articles provided they cite them correctly. In the […]
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N – Outcome reporting bias exposed29 December 2008Only 11 of 73 funders of randomised controlled trials contacted mentioned the importance of publication of negative as well as positive outcomes, a study in Trials has found (2008;9:66, doi:10.1186/1745-6215-9-66). […]
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N – Europe promises open access to research29 December 2008The European Commission has launched a pilot project that will give unrestricted online access to research results funded by the European Union, primarily research published in peer reviewed journals, after […]
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N – Pressure to publish scoop science29 December 2008Research in Cell has been criticised by five researchers from four research groups in three countries for not properly crediting their earlier findings (2008;133:1093-105, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2008.04.048). One critic, Peter Lawrence, said, […]
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N – Google feels credit contraction29 December 2008The internet search provider Google will close its scientific data service, Google Research Datasets, in January, before the product’s official launch. The experimental service was to offer scientists a way […]
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N – Professor charged with ghostwriting29 December 2008A US inquiry has charged an Australian professor for being author of an article in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology that was sympathetic to a treatment after it […]