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N – FundRef24 August 2012FundRef is a new project that builds on a collaboration between publishers and funding agencies. The project, supported by CrossRef, aims to standardise how funding sources are reported in research […]
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N -Open citations24 August 2012The publishers of the two biggest science journals, Nature and Science, have announced that they will make available the reference lists of those journals’ articles for use in an Open […]
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N – Welcome to PeerJ24 August 2012PeerJ (peerj.com) is a new publishing venture set up by Peter Binfield, previously of PLoS ONE, and Jason Hoyt, ex-Mendeley. PeerJ is a new open-access journal and pre-print service, initially […]
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N – Journal naming standards24 August 2012What happens when a journal changes its name? The US National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has published draft recommendations for the presentation and identification of e-journals. When a journal changes […]
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N – The Finch Report24 August 2012The Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, chaired by Dame Janet Finch (co-Chair of the UK Government’s Council for Science and Technology, published its findings in June. […]
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B – Pricing principles by open access publishers17 July 2012Björk B. Solomon D. Pricing principles used by scholarly open access publishers. Learned Publishing 2012;25(2):132-137(doi: 10.1087/20120207)The article processing charge (APC) is currently the primary method of funding professionally open access […]
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B – Medical publishing and drug industry17 July 2012Sismondo S. Medical publishing and the drug industry: is medical science for sale? Learned Publishing 2012;25(1):7-15(doi: 10.1087/20120102) Drug company articles placed in medical journals are often written under the names […]
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B – Outsourcing of editorial processing17 July 2012Sellwood S. Editorial processing: to outsource or not? Learned Publishing 2012;25(3):225-230(doi: 10.1087/20120310) This article examines the reasons why outsourcing the editorial assistant function might be of benefit to a journal, […]
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B – Publication guidelines10 July 2012Larson EL, Cortazal M. Publication guidelines need widespread adoption. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2012;65(3):239-246 This study aims at describing the development and adoption of general publication guidelines for various study […]
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B – Citation biases10 July 2012Radicchi F, Castellano C. Testing the fairness of citation indicators for comparison across scientific domains: the case of fractional citation counts. Journal of Informetrics 2012;6(1):121-130(doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.09.002) The use of raw […]
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B – Open access debate10 July 2012Lucibella M. Bill to kill open access sparks debate. APS News 2012;21(3):1-6 The article reports on whether scientific articles funded by US Federal agencies should be publicly available on the […]
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B – Multiple authorship10 July 2012Wyatt PJ. Commentary: too many authors, too few creators. Physics Today April 2012:9 The author discusses interesting issues regarding multiple authorship of articles written by authors in, or associated with, […]