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N – Researchers post data online immediately24 September 2008Some scientists are posting all their research data online as soon as they produce it in the interests of collaboration and to improve communication, Nature reports. The risks include not being able to publish in a journal, for example, the American Chemical Society doesn’t allow prepublication in any form; having data stolen by rivals; and […]
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N – Long papers get cited more23 September 2008The median number of citations rises with the length of the paper, an analysis of 20 027 peer reviewed astronomy papers published in 2000-4 (http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0692v1). On average 2-3 page articles had six citations, and 50 page articles 50 citations. “I expected that shorter papers would be cited more than longer ones,” said Jörg Dietrich, of […]
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N – Open access doesn’t increase citations23 September 2008Articles available for free online are no more likely to be cited than articles published in a subscription journal, but online access is greater, a randomised controlled trial has shown (BMJ 2008;337:a568). The trial comprised 1619 research articles and 11 journals published by the American Physiological Society. Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, said, “The […]
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N – Latin American journals get boost23 September 2008The number of Latin American and Caribbean journals indexed in the Web of Science has doubled to 159 after Thomson Reuters changed their selection criteria to get the most influential regionally important journals in the index. Abel Packer, at the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, said, “This notable increase . . […]
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N – Publishers’ group appoints US director23 September 2008The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has appointed Isabel Czech as executive director, North America. Ian Russell, the association’s chief executive, explained, “The membership of ALPSP is growing and much of that growth is from members in the United States and Canada. We have created this new position to help support the […]
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B – Pat on back is premature15 September 2008Dray T. Pat on back is premature. APS News 2008;17(8):4 Letter commenting on that of W.G.Unruh and the response of APS to it (APS News 17(6):8), in which the editors extensively rebut criticisms which do not appear to have been levelled at the APS, while completely ignoring the one that was, and calling for public […]
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B – Fair use protects authors’ rights15 September 2008Myers R A. Fair use protects authors’ rights. APS News 2008;17(8):4 Letter commenting on that of W.G.Unruh (APS News 17(6):8) and saying that US copyright law explicitly defines the fair use limitations on the exclusive rights conferred by the law. This is followed by “Unruh responds:” in which Unruh states that “fair use” is so […]
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B – Copyright causes conflict of interest15 September 2008Landis G A. Copyright causes conflict of itnerest. APS News 2008;17(8);4 Letter commenting on that of W.G.Unruh (APS News 17(6)8) and pointing out that normally one would expect the APS, the organization that usually would be defending the rights of physicists, ought to be outspoken in organizing physicists to keep their rights. But in this […]
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B – Copyright decision a matter of principle15 September 2008Freese M H. Copyright decision a matter of principle. APS News 2008;17(8):4 Letter commenting on that of W.G.Unruh (APS News 17(6):8) and saying some changes in APS copyright language are clearly appropriate and suggesting the best principle should be based on the contribution of the author and the journal: the ideas and data should clearly […]
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B – Relationship between Quality and Editorial Leadership of Biomedical Research Journals29 August 2008Matarese V. Relationship between Quality and Editorial Leadership of Biomedical Research Journals: A Comparative Study of Italian and UK Journals. PLoS ONE 2008; 3(7):e2512 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002512 Several organizations draw up statements guiding the quality of biomedical reporting, but not all journals adhere to these guidelines. Those that follow them demonstrate “editorial leadership” in their author community. […]
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B – Acquiring or enhancing a translation specialism29 August 2008Maher A, Waller S, Kerans ME. Acquiring or enhancing a translation specialism: the monolingual corpus-guided approach. Journal of Specialized Translation. 2008. 10: 56-75. (Available at: http://www.jostrans.org/issue10/art_maher.pdf) This article gives an account of how to go about setting up and using a corpus of model texts to guide editing or translation decision-making. It describes tools and […]
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B – Publishing perils include single-blind review29 August 2008Williams L. Publishing perils include single-blind review. Physics Today 2007;60(11):12 Letter suggesting single-blind peer review is an important and corrosive impediment to publication as it has a fundamental flaw: it allows reviewers to assess the author(s) of a paper along with the scientific content and thereby allows nonscientific considerations to creep in. http://ptonline.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=PHTOAD000060000011000012000001&idtype=cvips Posted for […]
