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Thematic analysis of predatory black- and white-lists20 February 2019A new preprint on the PeerJ, authored by Michaela Strinzel, Anna Severin, Katrin Milzow, and Matthias Egger hopes to make sense of quality criteria for journals by analysing trends in blacklist and whitelists of scholarly titles. The paper, titled “Blacklists” and “whitelists” to tackle predatory publishing: A cross-sectional comparison and thematic analysis analyses the content […]
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How deep does the misreporting rabbit-hole go?19 February 2019A new paper from Ben Goldacre and nine colleagues has been published in BMC journal Trials, examining discrepancies between pre-specified and reported outcomes. The paper, titled COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in real time documents the extent to which misreporting occurs in published papers in five journals endorsing Consolidated […]
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15th Annual Meeting of ISMPP18 February 2019This year sees the 15th Annual Meeting of ISMPP, which will address the topic of Communicating Science in an Era of Innovation and Change. The event will be held April 15-17, 2019, in National Harbor, MD, USA, gathering publishing professionals to explore how we can adapt and innovate to more effectively communicate medical and scientific […]
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Duplicate publications in medical literature – a study of journal (in)action18 February 2019A study by Mario Malički, Ana Utrobičić and Ana Marušić, published in December in Biochemia Medica, provides insights into what journals do when duplicate publications are brought to their attention. The authors tracked over five years the fate of more than a thousand of publications which were tagged as “duplicate publications” by the curated bibliographic database […]
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EASE President writes about Journal Ownership on the Scholarly Kitchen15 February 2019EASE President Pippa Smart has co-authored an article for the Scholarly Kitchen blog with fellow Learned Publishing editor Lettie Conrad. The article, titled Editorial Independence and Journal Ownership in the Age of Open Science, is an opinion piece about editors and ownership of content and what can be inferred from the editorial departure from the […]
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Democracy in a Digital Society – Trust, Evidence and Public Discourse in a Changing Media Environment13 February 2019EASE was recently represented at the expert forum on “Democracy in a Digital Society – Trust, Evidence and Public Discourse in a Changing Media Environment” by Council member Sylwia Ufnalska. The event was hosted by Re-Imagine Europa and All European Academies (ALLEA) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences & Humanities, Berlin, on 24 January 2019. […]
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Plan S – what impact will the new OA policy have on your journal13 February 2019This blog post has been written by EASE President, Pippa Smart, at the request of some EASE members who have asked EASE for advice about “Plan S” Open access is an established principle in scholarly communication but the full transition to global OA is nowhere close after almost two decades of discussion. Several grant funders […]
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Europe PMC links to PubMed Commons8 February 2019Europe PMC has partnered with Hypothes.is (a non-profit organisation focused on the development of open annotation tools) to display comments from the post-publication peer review platform PubMed Commons on articles in Europe PMC. PubMed Commons closed in March 2018. Comments will be publicly available, and will appear on article abstract and full-text pages. Europe PMC […]
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Early results from peer-review process trial8 February 2019In June 2018, eLife launched their trial of a new peer-review process, whereby the journal committed to publishing manuscripts deemed suitable for in-depth peer review. The first results of the trial have now been released, including data on time to first decision, gender and career stage, appeals, effects on the triage rate, and interest in […]
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Routledge translation handbook giveaway6 February 2019This offer may be of interest to EASE members in the langauge editing field. Until the 28th February, Routledge CRC Press are giving free online access to a series of 10 of their best selling translation handbooks. The titles are: Introducing Translation Studies, by Jeremy MundaIn Other Words, by Mona BakerTranslating as a Purposeful Activity, […]
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Most popular ESE articles in January4 February 2019Welcome to the first 2019 edition of our monthly review of the most read papers from European Science Editing (ESE). All five papers in the top reads are from the 2018 volume, offering a view of the breadth of content published in ESE, from professional writing standards, translation and editing, to peer review, and current […]
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Open Scholarship Strategy Document31 January 2019After more than a year of work, the Open Scholarship Strategy document has been published in full. The work was inspired by the Foundations for OER Strategy Development, the FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group, and developed by an open contribution working group of 32 people, including Jonathan Tennant, Jennifer Beamer, Jeroen Bosman, Björn Brembs, Johanna […]
