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N – Vigilante copy edits America29 April 2008An illustrated blog (www.jeffdeck.com/teal/blog) has been started to document errors in public signage and their correction by the Typo Eradication Advancement League, in a three month trip across the United […]
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N – Enough conflicts of interest?29 April 2008In March the BMJ asked whether the hunt for authors’ conflicts of interests had gone too far. Thomas Stossel argued that restrictions on academics’ interaction with commercial companies damages research […]
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B – Developments of Informetrics (2000-2006)24 April 2008Bar-Ilan J. Informetrics at the beginning of the 21st century—A review. Journal of Informetrics 2008;2(1):1-52 This is a very interesting review covering several issues concerning Informetrics, Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Webometrics, […]
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B – Guest Authorship and Ghostwriting18 April 2008Ross J S, Hill K P, Egilman D S, Krumholz H M. Guest Authorship and Ghostwriting in Publications Related to Rofecoxib: A Case Study of Industry Documents From Rofecoxib Litigation. […]
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B – Impugning the Integrity of Medical Science17 April 2008DeAngelis CD, Fontanarosa PB. Impugning the integrity of medical science: the adverse effects of industry influence. JAMA 2008;299(15):1833-1835. This Editorial illustrates studies documenting the manipulation of study results, authors, editors, […]
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B – Editors and Copy Editors in Fiction: Taking a Carpet-Sweeper to the Jungle17 April 2008Bell H K. Editors and Copy Editors in Fiction: Taking a Carpet-Sweeper to the Jungle. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 2008;39(2):156-167doi: 10.3138/jsp.39.2.156 In this article, the author examines the various types […]
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B – Different Kind of Profession17 April 2008Luey B. Different Kind of Profession: The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) Keynote Address MLA Convention 2006. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 2008;39(2):94-108doi: 10.3138/jsp.39.2.93 This article, which started as […]
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B – Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing16 April 2008Hahn C. Research Library Publishing Services: New Options for University Publishing. ARL, March 2008 This study is based on a survey carried out in 2007 by the Association of Research […]
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B – No to Negative Data16 April 2008Wiley S. No to Negative Data. Why I believe findings that disprove a hypothesis are largely not worth publishing. The Scientist 2008;22(4):39 The article discusses the recent disinclination of scientific […]
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Fighting plagaiarism and IPR violation11 April 2008Kulathuramaiyer N, Maurer H. Fighting plagaiarism and IPR violation: why is it so important? Learned Publishing 2007;20:252-258. (doi: 10.1087/095315107X239618) The revolutionary development of the web presents numerous opportunities for plagiarism […]
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B – Peer review gets the thumbs up7 April 2008Banks, Michael. 2008 Peer review gets the thumbs up. Physics World 21(3)8. Review of a new survey of 3000 academics around the world in the sciences and arts commissioned by […]
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B – Save your notes, drafts and printouts: today’s work is tomorrow’s history7 April 2008Brenner S, Roberts RJ. Save your notes, drafts and printouts: today’s work is tomorrow’s history [Letter]. Nature 2007;446:725. The increasing of our knowledge in science is making it imperative that […]