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B – Misconducts in publication of biomedical articles24 November 2011Varghese T. Misconducts in the publication of biomedical articles. Calicut Medical Journal 2011;9(2):e1 Many articles appearing in biomedical journals are done and published solely for academic advancement. According to the author, the editor of the Calicut Medical Journal, medical journal editors face many types of misconducts, the most common of them is plagiarism. Nowadays most […]
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B – Why animal research needs to improve24 November 2011Macleod M. Why animal research needs to improve. Nature 2011;477:511doi:10.1038/477511a Scant attention is usually given by authors, reviewers, and editors to the basic aspects related to the design of experiments, that use animals to model human diseases. In the face of pressures to reduce the number of animals used, researchers often do studies that are […]
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N – ORCID progress7 November 2011The ORCID (open researcher and contributor ID) project has raised sufficient funds from its 44 founding organisations to start the first phase of development, under the interim leadership of CrossRef‘s Geoffrey Bilder. The project will use Thomson Reuters’ ResearcherID code under a royalty-free perpetual license, and further funds are being sought.
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N – EC consults on scientific information7 November 2011In September, the European Commission completed a consultation on scientific information in the digital age. The EC will set out its plans for open access to publications and data in the context of research projects funded by the Union budget, including detail specific actions for individual member states. You can follow progress on the EC […]
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N – Proofreading tips7 November 2011The New York Times reports that it seems to be getting plenty of feedback from its readers about typos and gaffes, and its Times Topics blog presents a handy list of proofreading tips, “culled from years of journalism tip sheets.”
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N – Journal ranking7 November 2011Faculty of 1000, the post-publication peer review service, has been looking at a new alternative to the journal impact factor. The F1000 Journal Rankings are based on the evaluations provided by the site’s contributors. The approach is based on qualitative judgements and uses an algorithm developed collaboratively. The biggest problem seems to be whether to […]
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N – Apps for libraries7 November 2011The Apps for Library Ideas Challenge was set up by Elsevier under the banner “Know what your users need but not how to build it?” and sought innovative application ideas from libraries using Elsevier’s SciVerse platform. Ten finalists were selected, including determining the number of authors, vocabulary mapping, journal abbreviation translation, and supported search. Update […]
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N – More calls for access to data7 November 2011An article in PLoS ONE by John Ioannidis and colleagues noted that that not enough journals have policies on data availability, and that authors don’t adhere to policies that are in place. The article was the focus of a news story in Nature, which also addressed the need for better standards and incentives to share, […]
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N – EMWA Journal changes7 November 2011The European Medical Writers Association‘s quarterly journal The Write Stuff will be re-launched in 2012 as Medical Writing. The newly branded journal will be published by Maney Publishing and will be available online via IngentaConnect.
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N – Twitter styles7 November 2011Increasingly, the traditional journal article is only part of the mosaic of outputs that can relate to a research project. Researchers also blog, talk at conferences, share data online, contribute to guidelines or networks, and so on. All of these can be disseminated via Twitter. The London School of Economics and Political Sicence (LSE)’s Impact […]
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N – OA search engine7 November 2011JISC, the UK organisation that promotes information technologies in academia, has developed a search engine for open access content. The engine, developed by the Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute, enables users to navigate papers held in British open access repositories. You can try the search at core.kmi.open.ac.uk. The system stores downloads of previous searches, enabling […]
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N – How to measure OA7 November 2011There’s no shortage of facts and figures about the growth (or lack of growth, depending how you read the numbers) of open access publishing. A recent post on the Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics blog presets an impressive array of data and milestones. But the European Commission is looking for a more sustainable way of […]
