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B – To evaluate a journal with criteria “impact factor-free”15 May 2007Coleman A. Assessing the value of a journal beyond the impact factor. 2007. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Published Online (early view): 18 Apr 2007.DOI: 10.1002/asi.20599 With the current rapid evolution of scientific communication in its different facets, the author considers citations (and, consequently, impact factor) not completely representative of […]
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Factors influencing publication choice: why faculty choose open access.8 May 2007Warlick SE, Vaughan KTL. 2007. Factors influencing publication choice: why faculty choose open access. Biomedical Digital Libraries. 4:1-12 This paper describes the results of a number of interviews with scholarly biomedical faculty members at two US universities. Participants were chosen based on their recent publication record in OA journals and interviews conducted to establish why […]
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The future of science is open (access)8 May 2007Hooker B. 2007 The future of science is open (access) APS News 16(2)12 Article surveying open access issues from the perspective of a molecular biologist. Open access archives/repositories and also open access journals are discussed including questions of financing and the desirability of including metadata to develop “open science”: Open (Access + Data + Source […]
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The embargo should go8 May 2007Kiernan V. 2007. The embargo should go APS News 16(3)8 Article discussing the arguments for and against the embargo system under which science journals provide journalists with advance copies of newsworthy articles, but set strict timelines on when that information can be shared. He concludes that the system does more harm than good in the […]
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Editors’ Suggestions8 May 2007Physical Review Letters launches new feature to improve accessibility. 2007. APS News 16(3)7 Physical Review Letters launched a new feature in January. Each weekly issue has several papers designated as “Editors’ Suggestions”. These are intended to be papers that are well written and of interest to a wide range of physicists. How they are selected […]
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Peer Review and Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals1 May 2007Hames I. 2007. Peer Review and Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals. Blackwell Publishing Malden, MA, Oxford, and Carlton, Vic. in association with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, xii, 293 p. ISBN 1 4051 3159 4 or 978 1 4051 3159 9 This is a handbook on how the process of peer reviewing […]
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To blind or not to blind?25 April 2007Regehr G , Bordage G. 2006. To blind or not to blind? What authors and reviewers prefer. Medical Education 40: 832–839 doi:10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02539.x A web-based survey was sent to all authors and reviewers who had submitted or reviewed a manuscript for Medical Education in 2003 and 2004. Authors and reviewers who chose to respond to the […]
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How to write an English medical manuscript that will be published and have impact13 April 2007Tompson A. 2006. How to Write an English Medical Manuscript That Will Be Published and Have Impact. Surg Today (36)407-9 English has become the international language in science. Yet to write a medical manuscript in a second language is a challenge for many scientists whose native language is not English. The authors explains how it […]
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How to write consistently boring scientific literature13 April 2007Kaj Sand-Jensen. 2007. How to write consistently boring scientific literature. Oikos (OnlineEarly Articles). doi:10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.15674.x Scientists typically insist that their research is very exciting when they talk to laymen and prospective students, but the allure of this enthusiasm is too often lost in the predictable, stilted structure and language of their scientific publications. A top-10 list […]
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Learning and Teaching Medical Writing13 April 2007Learning/Teaching Medical Writing. 2007. The Write Stuff (1) The January issue of The Write Stuff (the official publication of the European Medical Writers Associations (www.emwa.org) is decicated to Learning and Teaching Medical Writing and considers it under different points of view. Medical writers rarely have a specific qualification in medical writing and often need to […]
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Scholarly Productivity of Editorial Board Members10 April 2007Weinrach SG., Thomas KR, Pruett SR, Chan F. 2006. Scholarly Productivity of Editorial Board Members of Three American Counseling and Counseling Psychology Journals . International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling 28(3) 303-5 Scholarly journals in professional and scientific fields communicate new knowledge and editorial board members (EBMs) serve as gatekeepers of what information will […]
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The cost of journal publishing4 April 2007King, D. W. 2007. The cost of journal publishing: a literature review and commentary Learned Publishing, 20: 85–106doi: 10.1087/174148507X183551 Detailed description of the costs, direct and indirect, involved in publishing. Also illustrates the effect of the number of articles published on average costs, examines the implications for libraries and the author-side payment model, and gives […]
