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N – “Going forward” is step backward25 September 2008Office jargon “cloaks the brutal modern workplace in such brainlessly upbeat language,” says Lucy Kellaway, complaining on the BBC’s website, and usage trickles down into common parlance. “Like ‘like,’ ‘going […]
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N – Who does peer review?25 September 2008Ai Lin Chun, associate editor for Nature Nanotechnology, was asked how researchers become peer reviewers, in the Nature Network forum. She looks for referees with a good publication record. Most […]
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N – Editing magazine indexed25 September 2008A complete index to Editing Matters, the magazine of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders, and its predecessors CopyRight and SFEP Newsletter has been compiled by Christopher Phipps of the […]
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N – Director and students in journal row25 September 2008The director of the German Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics has claimed that the journal Human Brain Mapping acted incorrectly when it published data taken without permission by research […]
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N – Publishers pay to deposit research25 September 2008Publishers, such as Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Oxford Journals, are meeting the costs of depositing research in open access repositories to help scientists meet the requirements of research funders. […]
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N – Calling writers on diabetes25 September 2008The Alliance for European Diabetes Research (www.euradia.org) wishes to draw attention of the media and freelance journalists to its next press conference, near Frankfurt on 26 November. In 2008 the […]
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N – The face of PubMed24 September 2008The Pubmed Faceoff site (www.postgenomic.com/faces) displays PubMed results using as a set of human faces, with features determined by the age, citation count, and journal impact factor associated with each […]
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N – Get your scientific integrity calendar24 September 2008Justin Bilicki won this year’s Science Idol competition, an cartoon contest with the theme of scientific integrity. Twelve of the finalists’ cartoons are available as a 2009 calendar, available from […]
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N – Dictionary threatens to drop words24 September 2008Collins is threatening to drop obscure words from its English dictionary this year because it can’t fit them all in. But its ruthlessness is tempered with a touch of clemency—and […]
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N – Researchers embrace journalists24 September 2008More than half of researchers questioned rated their contact with journalists as mostly good, and four out of 10 found media coverage beneficial to their career, a survey reported in […]
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N – On the Nature of PLoS24 September 2008A story in Nature about the finances of open access journal publisher the Public Library of Science (PLoS) has attracted criticism in the blogosphere. Nature Publishing Group publishes traditional subscription […]
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N – Nature looks at big data24 September 2008Marking the 10th anniversary of Google, the 4 September issue of Nature focused on big data sets: “As an increasing number of research disciplines are discovering, the vast amounts of […]