Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts
Monday, April 30, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Friday, February 03, 2012
Stem Cell Network Blog: News roundup: open access, new funding for personalized medicine and spinal cord injury update (eg. Elsevier - subscriber-based publisher)
February 01, 2012
News roundup: open access, new funding for personalized medicine and spinal cord injury update
Some updates and news items of note:
Call for boycott of subscriber-based journals gains momentum
The ongoing friction between proponents of open access and the academic publishers has jumped into the spotlight once again with calls from a number of academics, most notably from prominent British mathmetician Tim Gowers, who publicly announced his decision to stop submitting and reviewing for Elsevier. His objections are worth reading. Within days of his comments, a web site was created that allows other researchers to pledge their support for open access and against the practices of Elsevier and other academic publishers. At time of writing, there were over 2400 signatures. Of course, this is not the first time such calls for open access have surfaced from within the research community, the last big push resulted in the formation of the Public Library of Science in 2000.....
Monday, January 16, 2012
BMJ Group blogs: Liz Wager: Do we need to rethink our approaches to research misconduct and research integrity?
"....Having failed to start a reasonable conversation about research integrity, based on major scandals, we see no point in trying to address so-called “minor” offences. But as Iain Chalmers said at the meeting, “lesser offences,” such as failing to publish research and publishing welcome results more often than disappointing results, harms many more patients than the high profile scandals (since it distorts the evidence on which guidelines and clinical practice are based). While plagiarism may be a nasty symptom of a sick system, it has probably never killed anybody while unreliable guidelines and misguided research undoubtedly have....."
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