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The 2nd PEERE International Conference on Peer Review 202023 May 2019Following the success of their first peer review conference in 2018, the PEERE COST Action follow-up community organises the second edition of the PEERE International Conference on Peer Review, to be held in Valencia on 11-13 March, 2020. The conference aims to provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share research, models, […]
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Nine best practices of scientific integrity21 May 2019A new paper titled Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices: Recommendations from a Scientific Integrity Consortium has been published in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics. It is the outcome of discussions from a group led by the International Life Science Institute in early 2017, and it presents a set of recommended principles and best […]
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New paper demystifies developments in the new wave of ‘Open Science’14 May 2019A new paper has been added to a special issue of the journal Publications, examining “New Frontiers for Openness in Scholarly Publishing” The article is titled “Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing” and, in the context of the special issue theme, discusses several controversial, contentious or simply important and popular topics that are currently propelling […]
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The periodic table of copyediting12 May 2019Created by Dragonfly Editorial, the ultimate guide to all things copyediting imagined as the periodic table – with EASE in the Erbium position! What a fantastically fun way to preset style and usage guides, fact-checking resources and a host of editorial associations.
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European Science Editing issue 45(2) released10 May 2019The second issue of ESE volume 45 is now available online. Members can access the issue in full, non-members can read the open access Editorial and Original Articles. This issue features Stephan Mertens’ editorial about the need for science journals to address climate change with themed issues that would cover a variety of views on […]
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ESE most read papers of April9 May 2019In our monthly look at the top five most read papers from our journal European Science Editing we have three from our February issue; the Tennant et al. reviewer recommendations editorial and Olga Kirillova’s journal selection method paper, both of which are free to read, and members can access the Ho & Vuong paper on […]
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30th annual SfEP conference: discount for EASE members6 April 2019The 30th annual SfEP conference will be held at Aston University, Birmingham, on Saturday 14 to Monday 16 September 2019. The SfEP is pleased to invite EASE members to join us at a special discounted rate. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘In the beginning was the word’. As well as sessions on the […]
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Research Organization Registry (ROR) minimum visible registry launches28 March 2019ROR, the registry of research organisations (defined as “any organization that conducts, produces, manages, or touches research”), has begun assigning unique identifiers—ie, random, unique, and opaque nine-character strings—to the approximately 91,000 organisations in its registry. ROR IDs are stored with additional metadata, such as alternate organisation names or abbreviations, external URLs, and other identifiers, to be […]
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OSI brief on deceptive publishing28 March 2019A summary statement on the scope and practices of dubious publishers and journals has been published by The Open Scholarship Initiative; an organisation made of a number of representatives from commercial publishers, government policy bodies, research institutes, scholarly societies and university/library publishers. From the choice of the term ‘deceptive’ instead of ‘predatory’ onwards, the OSI […]
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Down with dichotomous statistical significance27 March 2019Sick of seeing unwarranted claims of non-association or overconfident claims in scientific literature, in a Comment published in Nature, Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane, and more than 800 signatories call for an end to the false belief that crossing the threshold of statistical significance shows a result is real. Source: V. Amrhein et al. […]
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New research-recommendation tool in development27 March 2019eLife, Flockademic, and the Center for Open Science are collaborating on the development of an open-source, not-for-profit research-recommendation tool. Plaudit is designed to assign value to research independent of publisher. Academics will be able to log into the tool with their ORCID iD and then provide their endorsement, which will be displayed next to the […]
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Fact-checking scientific papers25 March 2019Journals regularly use automated software to check for plagiarized submissions. New tools are being developed to check for image manipulation. Recently, two groups proposed to go further: automate the process of fact-checking in research papers. One of the tools compares the reported statistical ratios, confidence intervals, and p-values, to see if these numbers are compatible, […]
