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New PRW Video – Enriching the Review Process with Crossref16 August 2019EASE Council member Rachael Lammey stars in a new Peer Review Week video with Crossref colleague Rosa Clark. Together they discuss mechanisms for enhanced reviewer benefits through quality metadata – with some excellent illustrations! Watch the new video, and subscribe to the channel for more Peer Review Week interviews and insights as they appear. If […]
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Introducing the EASE Vietnam SciComm system15 August 2019We recently announced the addition of our official Vietnamese Chapter to the global EASE network, and today, in collaboration with Chapter Chair Dr. Vuong Quan Hoang, we are proud to officially introduce the EASE Vietnam SciComm system. This website will become the key interface for the Chapter, enabling the communication and exchange of resources for […]
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Most popular ESE articles in July13 August 2019It’s time for our monthly round up of the most popular articles in European Science Editing from the last four weeks. Stephen Merten’s pertinent editorial, calling for wider editorial policies to address climate change, is still the top read, with Andrew Woods’ 20123 essay on terminology close behind. As we get closer to Peer Review […]
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COPE European Seminar 201912 August 2019Details of Committee on Publication Ethics‘ European Seminar have been announced on their website. The one-day event will be held on 23rd September in Leiden, Netherlands, and will focus on Daily realities and future challenges in publication ethics. Specific topics will include Text Recycling, Predatory Publishing, Retractions, as well as updates and new resources from […]
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European Science Editing Issue 45(3) released!10 August 2019The latest issue of our journal, European Science Editing, is now online. The full issue is available to EASE members, the Editorial and Original articles are freely available to all readers. We hand over to our Editor in Chief, Ksenija Baždarić, for her introduction to the issue: In October, EASE will host a double event […]
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Lancet journals announce diversity pledge and no “manel” policy9 August 2019As part of the Lancet Group’s commitment to increasing gender equity, diversity, and inclusion in research and publishing, all of the publishing group’s 18 medical journals have adopted a new Diversity Pledge and No All-Male Panel Policy. The initiatives are outlined in a commentary written by Lancet Group editors, which states that they value diversity […]
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EASE members featured on the Peer Review Week channel4 August 2019The first videos of Peer Review Week featuring EASE members are up on the official PRW YouTube Channel now. President, Pippa Smart gives us an overview of what makes a good peer review (see video below), and health-science writing specialist, and long-time EASE member, Ed Hull starts a six-part series addressing several key topics. His […]
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PEERE in 1 minute – Homophily in peer review31 July 2019During the PEERE conference in Rome, Aliaksandr Birukou of University Trento, Editorial Director at Springer, gave a great talk about the role of homophily in peer review. Here is a one-minute glimpse of his vision.
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Cleaner, fresher, more effective poster design30 July 2019This video has been circulating for the last few months, but if you have not seen it, or the radical new poster designs from IOPsych PhD Mike Morrison, then check out both the video below and the downloadable templates. His new designs look clean, almost empty, with the main finding presented clearly in the middle […]
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Characteristics of Peer Review Reports: Editor-Suggested Versus Author-Suggested Reviewers29 July 2019An interesting study in the Science and Engineering Ethics journal, which adds to the mounting literature on peer review processes, examines the Characteristics of Peer Review Reports between Editor-Suggested Versus Author-Suggested Reviewers The paper is based a total of 457 reviews across 378 papers in one journal, European Scientific Journal (ESJ). The study compares the […]
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Review journal quality and service with JournalReviewer22 July 2019JournalReviewer is the latest platform to facilitate crowd-sourced independent rating and reviews of journals themselves, along the same lines as the retired Journalysis, and current SciRev, LetPub and Quality Open Access Market sites. It has been developed by Malte Elson of Ruhr University Bochum, and James D Ivory of Virginia Tech. These types of sites […]
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PUBMET2019 speakers announced10 July 2019In the year of the 15th Anniversary of the Department of Information Science at the University of Zadar, the 6th Conference of Scholarly Publishing in the Context of Open Science PUBMET2019 will be held on September 19-20, 2019 at the most beautiful venue of University of Zadar, Croatia. The sessions at PUBMET2019 will be presenting […]
