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ETHICAL ISSUES16 August 2006APS task force calls for website on ethics education. 2006. APS News. 15(7)1, 3.The APS Task Force on Ethics Education has advocated the creation andmaintenance of a web site to […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES16 August 2006Kennefick D. 2005. Einstein versus the Physical Review. Physics Today 58(9):43-48Reports how Einstein objected when the Physical Review sent a paper of his to a referee, withdrew the paper and […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES16 August 2006Scott, James F. 2006. Unintennded impact of Author Impact Factor Physics Today 59(9):16Comments on suggestion by Loc Vu-Quoc that multiple author publications be divided according to the number of authors […]
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PRACTICE OF PUBLISHING16 August 2006Carroll Sean 2006 Welcome to the Blogosphere APS News 15(5)8Describes the rapid development of blogs (magazine-like collections ofarticles published on the Internet) which now include many givinginformation to scientists and […]
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PUBLISHING16 August 2006“When buzzwords collide”. Using the slogan, and I am not trying to be funny here, “Open Access 2.0”, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) has launched a journal to compete […]
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ETHICAL ISSUES16 August 2006Holden C 2006 The undisclosed background of a paper on a depression treatment Science 313:598-9 Science reports failure to declare conflicts of interest by Editor-in-Chief and editorial board members of […]
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PRACTICE OF PUBLISHING14 August 2006Glänzel W, Schlemmer B,Schubert A, Thijs B. 2006. Proceedings literature as additional data source for bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics 68(3):457-73 Proceedings of scientific meetings are important sources of scholarly communication and […]
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LANGUAGE AND WRITING12 August 2006Flores G. 2006. Language barriers to health care in the United States.N Engl J Med.20;355(3):229-31.Many patients who need medical interpreters have no access to them. Language barriers can have deleterious […]
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ECONOMICS AND FUNDING12 August 2006Loscalzo, Joseph. 2006. The NIH Budget and the Future of Biomedical Research. New England Journal of Medicine. 354(16):1665-1667Whatever mechanisms are chosen, it seems clear that new methods of support must […]
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POLITICS OF PUBLISHING12 August 2006Buela-Casal, Gualberto; Perakakis, Pandelis; Taylor, Michael; Checa, Purificacion. 2006. Measuring internationality: Reflections and perspectives on academic journals. Scientometrics. 67(1):45-65 Internationality as a concept is being applied ambiguously, particularly in the […]
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PRACTICE OF PUBLISHING12 August 2006Lowell L. Hargens and Jerald R. Herting. 2006. Analyzing the association between referees’ recommendations and editors’ decisions Scientometrics 67 (1): 15-26 The association between referee recommendations and editorial decisions at […]
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SCIENCE12 August 2006UK Royal Society. 2006. Science and the public interest: Communicating the results of new scientific research to the public The Royal Society: London The vast majority of scientific papers are […]