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B – Business in medical writing: a monographic issue7 July 2010Business. The Write Stuff. The Journal for European Medical Writers Association 2010; 19 (2): 78-163 A monographic issue of The Write Stuff (TWS), journal of the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) dedicated to the business theme in the field of medical writing, interesting for both editors and publishers. Two articles tackle an important question for […]
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N – DOIs in the popular press7 July 2010The CrossRef newsletter reports on the appearance of DOIs (digital object indentifiers) in the mainstream media, giving readers a reliable way to access the original research. An example can be seen on the ScienceDaily website. Publishers can promote the use of DOIs by making sure they are included in citations used in public relations materials.
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B – Do reviews deserve their citations?6 July 2010Wiley S. Down with reviews: review articles simply don’t deserve all the citations they receive. The Scientist 2010;24:31. http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/57236/ The number of review articles and review journals has grown over the last decade. While they are clearly useful for both scientists and publishers, the relatively high citations for some reviews indicates that they are increasingly […]
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N – Royal Society journals free for July6 July 2010For the month of July, the Royal Society will make all of its journal content completely free to view. That’s over 350 years of papers, letters, reviews, and opinions accessible on the Royal Society Publishing website. You can read everything from a 1671 letter from Isaac Newton that set out many of the fundamentals of […]
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N – EndNote gets an upgrade2 July 2010Thomson Reuters has released a major new version of the popular bibliographic management software EndNote. The new version, codenamed X4, enables users to import PDFs and offers a neater ‘Cite While You Write’ facility that includes a boggling 4500 journal styles. EndNote X4 is for Windows users only and is fully compatibile with Microsoft Word […]
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N – Springer Opening Up2 July 2010Springer Science+Business Media, owner of BioMedCentral (BMC), is launching a series of new open access e-journals under the banner SpringerOpen (http://www.springeropen.com). Taking inspiration, expertise and technology from BMC, SpringerOpen will start publishing 12 titles in early 2011, and institutions signed up to BMC’s membership team will also get access to the new SpringerOpen titles.
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N – Peer review turned around2 July 2010Elsevier is piloting a new approach to peer review: let the reviewers choose what they want to review. The new system, called PeerChoice, will be trialed for 3 months in the journal Chemical Physics Letters, and Elsevier hopes it will speed up peer review and avoid the problem of reviewers being asked to review articles […]
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B – Sources of dissemination bias2 July 2010Bowden J, Jackson D, Thompson SG. Modelling multiple sources of dissemination bias in meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine 2010;29:945-955. DOI: 10.1002/sim.3813 Asymmetry in the funnel plot for a meta-analysis suggests dissemination bias, perhaps caused by publication bias or selective reporting by authors. Studies with statistically significant results or larger effect sizes are more likely to be […]
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B – Open access survey2 July 2010Björk BC, Welling P, Laakso M, et al. Open access to the scientific journal literature: situation 2009. PLoS One 2010;5:e11273. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011273 A survey published in PLoS ONE found that 1 in 5 research papers published in 2008 are currently available free online. Researchers at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, checked the availability […]
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B – Preparing raw clinical data for publication18 June 2010Hrynaszkiewicz I, Norton ML, Vickers AJ et al. Preparing raw clinical data for publication: guidance for journal editors, authors, and peer reviewers. Trials 2010;11:9(doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-11-9) Many peer-reviewed journals require that their authors be prepared to share their raw, unprocessed data with other scientists and/or state the availability of raw data in published articles. A practical […]
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B – Repositories and journals: are they in conflict?18 June 2010Brown DJ. Repositories and journals: are they in conflict? A literature review of relevant literature. Aslib Proceedings 2010;62(2).112-43(doi: 10.1108/00012531011034955) The paper aims to bring together information on whether any evidence exists of a commercial conflict between the creation of digital archives (institutional repositories, IRs) at reasearch institutions and centres of excellence, and the business of […]
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B – Promoting scientific standards16 June 2010Alberts B. Editorial. Promoting scientific standards. Science 2010;327(5961):12(doi: 10.1126/science.1185983) Journals such as Science occupy a special place in the maintenance of scientific standards to help make science as productive as possible in serving both scientists and the greater society. As a start, two critical authorship issued were considered. First, to discourage “honorary authorship”, according to […]
