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B – Updated Good Publication Practice guideline GPP33 September 2015Battisti WP, Wager E, Bltzer L, et al. Good Publication Practice for communicating company-sponsored medical research: GPP3. Annals of Internal Medicine e-pub 11 August 2015(doi:10.7326/M15-0288) The updated Good Publication Practice (GPP) […]
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B – Open access-first Spanish edition3 September 2015Suber P. Acceso Abierto. Translation by R. Melero. Toluca, Mexico: National Autonomous University of Mexico; 2015. This is the first Spanish translation of the Suber’s book Open Access, published in […]
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B – An open research culture22 July 2015Nosek BA, Alter G, Banks GC, et al. Promoting an open research culture. Science June 2015;348(6242):1422-1425(doi: 10.1126/science.aab2374)The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Committee met in November 2014 and developed guidelines […]
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B – The erosion of research integrity22 July 2015Ellis LM. The erosion of research integrity: the need for cultural change. The Lancet Oncology July 2015;16:752-754(doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(15)00085-6) The success of drug development depends on robust and reproducible preclinical studies. Reports […]
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B – Reasons for abandoning clinical trials22 July 2015Couzin-Frankel J. Researchers seek clear reasons when clinical trials end early. Science July 2015;349(6245):222(doi: 10.1126/science.349.6245.222) About 12% of clinical trials are reported to shut down prematurely. Knowing why could help […]
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B – What motivates researchers to write journal articles30 June 2015Jubb M. Communication or competition: what motivates researchers to write articles for journals?Learned Publishing 2014;27(4): 251-252(doi: 10.1087/20140403) The author presents insights on whether competition or communication motivates researchers to write […]
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B – An effective poster presentation30 June 2015Developing an effective poster presentation. San Francisco Edit 2015 Poster presentations provide an opportunity for researchers to present their work at scientific meetings and are preparatory for publication in a […]
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B – Pharmacovigilance medical writing30 June 2015von Bruchhausen T, Prechtel K. Pharmacovigilance medical writing: an evolving profession. Medical Writing 2015;24(2):66-71(doi: 10.1179/2047480615Z.000000000287) The pharmacovigilance medical writer has a key position in the preparation of documents, leading the […]
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B – Link rot26 June 2015Perkel JM. The trouble with reference rot. Nature 2015;521(7550):111-112 (doi:10.1038/521111a) Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature. Herbert Van de Sompel and Martin Klein […]
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B – The history of typography in Print Magazine26 June 2015Shaw P. The history of typography in Print magazine. Print March 26, 2015 The author charts the bold (and at times, bizarre) evolution of typography within Print magazine in timeline […]
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B – Antibody problem26 June 2015Baker M. Reproducibility crisis: Blame it on the antibodies. Nature 21 May 2015;521:274-276 Antibodies are among the most commonly used tools in biological experiments, but they are littering the field […]
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B – SciDetect: a hoax-detecting software26 June 2015Bohannon J. Hoax-detecting software spots fake papers. Science 3 April 2015;348(6230):18-19 Springer announced the creation of SciDetect, a freely available programme to automatically detect automatically generated papers. The tool uses a statistical […]