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EASE Conference Abstract: Challenges of publishing in languages other
than English18 February 2018We have added the first full session abstract and speaker bio to our conference pages! This honour falls to Maria del Carmen Ruiz-Alcocer, and her session addressing Challenges of publishing in languages other than English. We will be adding more full pages of information for each session over the coming months. Each full abstract will […]
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Cochrane-REWARD prize for reducing waste in health research29 January 2018Cochrane is now calling for nominations for the 2018 prize. The Lancet series on adding value and reducing waste in research has documented that much research is wasted because its outcomes cannot be used. The waste occurs during 5 stages of research production: question selection, study design, research conduct, publication, and reporting. This type of […]
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Cochrane-REWARD prize for reducing waste in health research29 January 2018Cochrane is now calling for nominations for the 2018 prize. The Lancet series on adding value and reducing waste in research has documented that much research is wasted because its outcomes cannot be used. The waste occurs during 5 stages of research production: question selection, study design, research conduct, publication, and reporting. This type of […]
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PEERE International Conference on Peer Review29 January 2018PEERE International Conference on Peer Review, 7-9 March 2018, CNR (National Research Council) Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, Italy The TD1306 COST Action PEERE organises an interdisciplinary conference on peer review, to be held in March this year. The conference aims to provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share evidence on peer review […]
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PEERE International Conference on Peer Review29 January 2018PEERE International Conference on Peer Review, 7-9 March 2018, CNR (National Research Council) Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, Italy The TD1306 COST Action PEERE organises an interdisciplinary conference on peer review, to be held in March this year. The conference aims to provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share evidence on peer review […]
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Matarese & Shashok – Response to Moher et.al’s Core Competencies statement26 January 2018Two of our members have written a response to Moher et al.’s ‘Core competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals: consensus statement’, published in BMC Medicine in 2017, from their perspective as authors’ editors. Valerie Matarese and Karen Shashok’s correspondence article in F1000Research offers some “insights into the types of competencies researchers from diverse geographical, […]
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Matarese & Shashok – Response to Moher et.al’s Core Competencies
statement26 January 2018Two of our members have written a response to Moher et al.’s ‘Core competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals: consensus statement’, published in BMC Medicine in 2017, from their perspective as authors’ editors. Valerie Matarese and Karen Shashok’s correspondence article in F1000Research offers some “insights into the types of competencies researchers from diverse geographical, […]
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EASE Council nominations for 2018-202125 January 2018Reminder for recommendations for new EASE Council members – Deadline for nominations is 10th March, 2018 Council elections are held every three years. The last elections for EASE Council were held in 2015, and new elections will therefore be held in 2018. At the next EASE Annual General Meeting (in Bucharest, 8th June 2018), it […]
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EASE Council nominations for 2018-202125 January 2018Reminder for recommendations for new EASE Council members – Deadline for nominations is 10th March, 2018 Council elections are held every three years. The last elections for EASE Council were held in 2015, and new elections will therefore be held in 2018. At the next EASE Annual General Meeting (in Bucharest, 8th June 2018), it […]
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Hindawi services for institutional repositories24 January 2018The open access publisher Hindawi have announced a new service for institutions, whereby they will automatically deposit a copy of an article with affiliated authors into the institutional repository as soon as it is published. The service is designed to reduce the burden on authors and institutions manually transferring files, and looks simple to set […]
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Hindawi services for institutional repositories24 January 2018The open access publisher Hindawi have announced a new service for institutions, whereby they will automatically deposit a copy of an article with affiliated authors into the institutional repository as soon as it is published. The service is designed to reduce the burden on authors and institutions manually transferring files, and looks simple to set […]
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Social Media, Science and MOOCs23 January 2018An article published in FEMS Microbiology Letters reviews the use of Twitter as a tool for scientists to “increase their personal brand, improve their skills, enhance their visibility, share and communicate science to society, promote scientific culture, and even as a tool for teaching and learning” The authors assess their experiences of using Twitter as […]
