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B – Are journal editors an anachronism?6 December 2011Davis P. Have journal editors become anachronisms? Scholarly Kitchen blog 2011, 19 SeptemberAre journal editors an anachronism? On the Guardian a recurring revolutionary theme has been recently reported: publishing must […]
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B – How journals can prevent, detect and respond to misconduct6 December 2011Wager E. How journals can prevent, detect and respond to misconduct. Notfall+Rettungsmedizin German Interdisciplinary Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011, 30 October:1-3(doi: 10.1007/s10049-011-1543-8) Editors of science journals are sometimes reluctant to […]
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N – Wolters Kluwer acquires Medknow5 December 2011Medknow Publications, an open-access publisher based in Mumbai, India, has been acquired by Wolters Kluwer Health, the home of Lippincot, Williams & Wilkins, UpToDate and Ovid, and other brands. Medknow […]
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B – Reproducible research in computational science5 December 2011Peng RD. Reproducible research in computational science. Science 2011;334(1226)(doi: 10.1126/science.1213847) Computational science has led to exciting new developments in many scientific areas. The availability of large public databases has allowed […]
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B- Making the journal abstract more concrete29 November 2011Hartley J. Making the journal abstract more concrete. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 2011;43(1):110-115(doi: 10.3138/jsp.43.1.110) Abstracts in social science journals have been criticized in the past for being imprecise. They need […]
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B – Costs and benefits of transitions to gold open access25 November 2011Jubb M. Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications. Liber Quarterly 2011;21(1):102-104 This article reports on a study investigating the drivers, costs and benefits […]
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B – Performance of scientific peer reviewers25 November 2011Callaham M, McCulloch C. Longitudinal trends in the performance of scientific peer reviewers. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2011;57(2):141-148 Editors at the Annals of Emerging Medicine rated the quality of every […]
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B – Peer reviews: make them public25 November 2011Mietchen D. Peer reviews: make them public. Nature 2011;473(452)(doi:10.1038/473452b) A public-review policy would help editors and increase a journal’s reputation, particularly if others in the field publicly shared their own […]
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B – Peer review accuracy: cooperation between referees and authors25 November 2011Leek JT, Taub MA, Pineda FJ. Cooperation between referees and authors increases peer review accuracy. PLoS ONE 2011;6(11):e26895doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026895 Researchers from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published results of […]
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B – Public access and use of health research: a NIH study25 November 2011O’Keeffe J, Willinsky J, Maggio L. Public access and use of health research: an exploratory study of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy using interviews and surveys […]
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B – The virtues of correct citation25 November 2011Mertens S, Baethge C. The virtues of correct citation: careful referencing is important but is often neglected even in peer reviewed articles. Deutsches Ärzteblatt International 2011;108(33):550-552 doi:10.3238/arztebl.2011.0550 References in scientific […]
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B – Integration of data and publications25 November 2011Reilly S, Schallier W, Schrimpf S. et al. Report on integration of data and publications. Alliance for Permanent Access. ODE Project 2011, 17 oct. As part of the ODE (Opportunities […]
