Powell A. Availability does not equal access. The Scholarly Kitchen May 21, 2015
The link between access and discovery of information is crucial. Discovery is a complex concept, a web made of tools, technologies, infrastructure and perhaps most importantly, relationships built on an understanding of the needs of users. INASP (an international development charity working with a global network of partners to improve access, production and use of research information and knowledge) is working on each of these aspects with an ultimate goal of bringing them together on a global level.
Monday, September 14, 2015
B - Responding to reviewers
Responding to reviewers. San Francisco Edit 2015
If an author's manuscript has been provisionally accepted, he/she needs to plan a strategy for revising the paper. A list of actions is here presented that will assist authors in resubmitting a revised manuscript and responses to reviewers' comments.
http://www.sfedit.net/reviewers.pdf
If an author's manuscript has been provisionally accepted, he/she needs to plan a strategy for revising the paper. A list of actions is here presented that will assist authors in resubmitting a revised manuscript and responses to reviewers' comments.
http://www.sfedit.net/reviewers.pdf
B - Conflict of interest policies
Steinbrook R, Kassirer JP, Angell M. Justifying conflicts of interest in medical journals: a very bad idea. BMJ 2015;350:h2942
(doi: 10.1136/bmj.h2942)
A series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has questioned whether the conflict of interest movement has gone too far in its campaign to stop the drug industry influencing the medical profession. In this article three former senior NEJM editors respond with dismay.
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2942
(doi: 10.1136/bmj.h2942)
A series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has questioned whether the conflict of interest movement has gone too far in its campaign to stop the drug industry influencing the medical profession. In this article three former senior NEJM editors respond with dismay.
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2942
B - Peer review
Bornmann L, Haunschild R. The interest of the scientific community in expert opinions from journal peer review procedure. Scientometrics 2015;102(3):2187-2188
The peer review in journals is generally regarded as a closed procedure, where the report can only be seen by the editor and the authors of the paper assessed, and the peer reviewer does not receive any credits for this input. A number of journals have changed over to publishing the expert opinions on manuscripts under the name of the expert. The authors of this article have used the F1000Prime data set to investigate the reception of expert opinions in the scientific community with the help of data from the Mendeley reference manager. As results, a total of only 11 users have saved an expert opinion in their reference manager.
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-014-1514-1
The peer review in journals is generally regarded as a closed procedure, where the report can only be seen by the editor and the authors of the paper assessed, and the peer reviewer does not receive any credits for this input. A number of journals have changed over to publishing the expert opinions on manuscripts under the name of the expert. The authors of this article have used the F1000Prime data set to investigate the reception of expert opinions in the scientific community with the help of data from the Mendeley reference manager. As results, a total of only 11 users have saved an expert opinion in their reference manager.
http://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-014-1514-1
Monday, September 7, 2015
B - Double-blind review
Palus S. Is double-blind review better? APS News 2015;24(7):5-6.
As of March 2015 Nature started offering anonymity for authors, a double-blind peer-review process across all its journals. This article discusses the advantages and problems of double-blind reviewing and describes a number of previous trials of the system. Questions about usefulness of the practice remain.
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201507/
As of March 2015 Nature started offering anonymity for authors, a double-blind peer-review process across all its journals. This article discusses the advantages and problems of double-blind reviewing and describes a number of previous trials of the system. Questions about usefulness of the practice remain.
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201507/
Thursday, September 3, 2015
B - Updated Good Publication Practice guideline GPP3
Battisti WP, Wager E, Bltzer L, et al. Good Publication Practice for communicating company-sponsored medical research: GPP3. Annals of Internal Medicine e-pub 11 August 2015
(doi:10.7326/M15-0288)
The updated Good Publication Practice (GPP) guideline, known as GPP3, builds on earlier versions (originally published in 2003 and updated in 2009 as GPP2) and provides recommendations for individuals and organizations that contribute to the publication of research results sponsored or supported by pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and biotechnology companies. The recommendations are designed to help individuals and organizations maintain ethical and transparent publication practices and comply with legal and regulatory requirement. The new areas addressed in GPP3 include: guidance on the most recent ICMJE authorship criteria; common issues regarding authorship; improved clarity on author payment and reimbursement; clarification as to what constitutes ghost or guest authorship; the role and benefit of professional medical writers; and guidance for appropriate data sharing. EASE has publicly endorsed GPP3.
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2424869
(doi:10.7326/M15-0288)
The updated Good Publication Practice (GPP) guideline, known as GPP3, builds on earlier versions (originally published in 2003 and updated in 2009 as GPP2) and provides recommendations for individuals and organizations that contribute to the publication of research results sponsored or supported by pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and biotechnology companies. The recommendations are designed to help individuals and organizations maintain ethical and transparent publication practices and comply with legal and regulatory requirement. The new areas addressed in GPP3 include: guidance on the most recent ICMJE authorship criteria; common issues regarding authorship; improved clarity on author payment and reimbursement; clarification as to what constitutes ghost or guest authorship; the role and benefit of professional medical writers; and guidance for appropriate data sharing. EASE has publicly endorsed GPP3.
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2424869
B - Open access-first Spanish edition
Suber 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 it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber’s influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.
http://ri.uaemex.mx/handle/123456789/21710
The original article is available at https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access
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 it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold. Distilling a decade of Suber’s influential writing and thinking about open access, this is the indispensable book on the subject for researchers, librarians, administrators, funders, publishers, and policy makers.
http://ri.uaemex.mx/handle/123456789/21710
The original article is available at https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access
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