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Applications open for Cochrane REWARD prizes25 March 2019Cochrane, an organisation providing evidence to support decision making in medicine, announced the call for nominations for their annual REWARD prizes, acknowledging “initiatives that have potential to reduce research waste”. Research waste occurs when results of a study cannot be used in practice, especially in medical practice, and thus the money, time and effort put into […]
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Pilot between ResearchGate and Springer Nature begins1 March 2019In April 2018, ResearchGate and publishers including Springer Nature entered into an agreement to collaborate on the amicable sharing of articles between platforms. From 1st March, Springer Nature will begin adding full text articles, published since November 2017 from 26 subscription journals, to the profiles of authors on ResearchGate. This marks a promising step towards […]
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Guidelines for open peer review implementation1 March 2019Work from the OpenUp project has produced a new guidelines paper, written by Tony Ross-Hellauer and Edit Görögh, published in Research Integrity and Peer Review. Guidelines for open peer review implementation is based on the outcomes from a workshop held in 2018 involving two EASE Council members, Bahar Mehmani (Elsevier) and Flaminio Squazzoni (Università degli […]
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EASE Statement of endorsement of the Leiden Declaration on Transparent Journal Policies28 February 2019EASE has officially endorsed a new Declaration on editorial transparency. This Declaration was discussed at a workshop held in Leiden, July 2018, overseen by Radboud University Institute for Science in Society. Representatives from publishers, (managing) editors, researchers and librarians participated, including two members of EASE Council. One of the main conclusions of the workshop was […]
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Cochrane-REWARD prize 2019 opens for nominations28 February 2019The call for nominations for this year’s Cochrane-REWARD prize is now live. The prize recognises initiatives that have potential to reduce research waste in five areas of health research: question selection, study design, research conduct, publication, and reporting. Last year’s winners were the UK Equator Centre for its Good Reports Tool, the EBM DataLab for […]
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PEERE in 1 minute – The dialogue of peer review26 February 2019New video on the PEERE YouTube channel, featuring EASE Past-President, Ana Marušić of University of Split School of Medicine, suggesting that peer review is evolving dialogue. Great interview short, from last year’s PEERE conference in Rome.
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Introducing our Turkish and Vietnamese Regional Chapters25 February 2019We are delighted to announce that our colleagues and members from Turkey and Vietnam have organised two new Regional Chapters of EASE. Introducing the Turkish Chapter, chaired by Cem Uzum of Trakya University, and the Vietnamese Chapter, chaired by Vuong Quan Hoang of Phenikaa University. Cem Uzum These two new Chapters join our existing Communities […]
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METM19 call for conference proposals22 February 2019The deadline for proposals for sessions for the Mediterranean Editors and Translators METM19 conference is next week – 28th February, 2019! The theme for the event is inspired in part by MiRoR, the organising partner of the Conference at the University of Split. The group’s work aims to reduce waste and increase value in research. […]
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European Science Editing issue 45(1) released21 February 2019The first European Science Editing issue of 2019 has been published! Read it online now at http://europeanscienceediting.eu/issues/451/ Issue 45(1) contains an editorial by Tennant et al. about how reviewer recommendations can influence editorial decision-making (p2). In their original article, Shwartzman and Zeldina describe the procedure of journal selection in a Russian grant programme (p6). The […]
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How to choose a journal and write a cover letter21 February 2019Vice-President of EASE, Duncan Nicholas, has published a new paper offering advice on journal selection, using recent evidence to inform the strategies presented and adding additional insights and tools. How to choose a journal and write a cover letter is part of the “How to write a scientific paper” special issue of the Saudi Journal […]
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National Indexing Day 201921 February 2019The Society of Indexers announces the third National Indexing Day. The event will be a half-day conference for editors commissioning indexes, or for other interested publishing professionals, on how indexers work and how they can add value to any non-fiction book. Presentations will focus on current indexing practices, how to evaluate good and bad indexes, […]
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Open Access on the rise20 February 2019Digital Science, the company behind different research supporting technologies, such as the figure and data repository Figshare, published in January a report called “The Ascent of Open Access”. The report tracks the development in open access (OA) publications from 2000 to 2016. After stating that the number of OA publications is rising, but this could […]
