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B – Open access-first Spanish edition3 September 2015Suber P. Acceso Abierto. Translation by R. Melero. Toluca, Mexico: National Autonomous University of Mexico; 2015. This is the first Spanish translation of the Suber’s book Open Access, published in 2012. Peter Suber tells us what open access is and isn’t, how it benefits authors and readers of research, how we pay for it, how […]
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B – An open research culture22 July 2015Nosek BA, Alter G, Banks GC, et al. Promoting an open research culture. Science June 2015;348(6242):1422-1425(doi: 10.1126/science.aab2374)The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Committee met in November 2014 and developed guidelines consisting of eight shared standards for open practices across journals. These guidelines could help promote transparency, openness, an reproducibility of scientific research outputs. As the […]
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B – The erosion of research integrity22 July 2015Ellis LM. The erosion of research integrity: the need for cultural change. The Lancet Oncology July 2015;16:752-754(doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(15)00085-6) The success of drug development depends on robust and reproducible preclinical studies. Reports suggest that a high percentage of preclinical studies cannot be reliably reproduced. Causes could be sloppy research and data falsification or even fabrication. The author […]
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B – Reasons for abandoning clinical trials22 July 2015Couzin-Frankel J. Researchers seek clear reasons when clinical trials end early. Science July 2015;349(6245):222(doi: 10.1126/science.349.6245.222) About 12% of clinical trials are reported to shut down prematurely. Knowing why could help minimize the number of terminated trials going forward. A team of three computational biologists began exploring why clinical trials end prematurely. They looked at all […]
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B – What motivates researchers to write journal articles30 June 2015Jubb M. Communication or competition: what motivates researchers to write articles for journals?Learned Publishing 2014;27(4): 251-252(doi: 10.1087/20140403) The author presents insights on whether competition or communication motivates researchers to write and publish articles in scholarly journals. He discusses the challenges being experienced by these researchers, the importance of informal communication, the use of social media […]
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B – An effective poster presentation30 June 2015Developing an effective poster presentation. San Francisco Edit 2015 Poster presentations provide an opportunity for researchers to present their work at scientific meetings and are preparatory for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. This brief document gives some advice to help authors in developing an effective poster. http://www.sfedit.net/poster.pdf
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B – Pharmacovigilance medical writing30 June 2015von Bruchhausen T, Prechtel K. Pharmacovigilance medical writing: an evolving profession. Medical Writing 2015;24(2):66-71(doi: 10.1179/2047480615Z.000000000287) The pharmacovigilance medical writer has a key position in the preparation of documents, leading the whole document creation process. This process includes drafting the document, coordinating the input of the involved functions, providing valuable expertise on the required format and […]
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B – Link rot26 June 2015Perkel JM. The trouble with reference rot. Nature 2015;521(7550):111-112 (doi:10.1038/521111a) Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature. Herbert Van de Sompel and Martin Klein were interviewed by the author of this article on the work of the Hiberlink project. They have investigated the extent of reference rot on scholarly […]
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B – The history of typography in Print Magazine26 June 2015Shaw P. The history of typography in Print magazine. Print March 26, 2015 The author charts the bold (and at times, bizarre) evolution of typography within Print magazine in timeline format throughout the last 75 years. The magazine’s typography has been an uneven barometer of the typographic trends of those years.http://www.printmag.com/article/stereotype-history-of-typography/
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B – Antibody problem26 June 2015Baker M. Reproducibility crisis: Blame it on the antibodies. Nature 21 May 2015;521:274-276 Antibodies are among the most commonly used tools in biological experiments, but they are littering the field with false findings. A few scientists are pushing for change and are calling for the creation of standards by which antibodies should be made, used […]
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B – SciDetect: a hoax-detecting software26 June 2015Bohannon J. Hoax-detecting software spots fake papers. Science 3 April 2015;348(6230):18-19 Springer announced the creation of SciDetect, a freely available programme to automatically detect automatically generated papers. The tool uses a statistical technique similar to those used by email spam filters to automatically detect papers created with SCIgen and similar programmes. http://www.johnbohannon.org/NewFiles/SciDetect.pdf
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B – Misidentified cell lines26 June 2015Announcement: Time to tackle cells’ mistaken identity. Nature 16 April 2015;520:264 This Editorial sets out new ways to tackle the problem of misidentified cell lines. Changes apply to all Nature journals from 1st May 2015. Authors of papers involving cell lines are asked to check their cell lines against publicly available lists of known misidentified cell […]
