News from the World of Publishing - Archive

 

Date
Links to articles/discussion of the topics listed
2011 November 2

Faked Data in 30 Social Psychology Papers

UK government responds to report on peer review in scientific publications

2011 August 29

Retractions on the Rise

High-profile scientific journals lead in retractions

2011 August 5 Plagiarism in China
2011 August 1

Scientific Communication Returning to its Roots, says Former BMJ Editor

UK Parliament Recommendations on Peer Review in Scientific Publications

2011 July 26 Retracted genetics study: should weaknesses have been caught during peer review?
2011 July 19 Seeking a "killer app" to replace traditional peer review
2011 June 30 Biomedical Funders to Start Open Access Journal
2011 June 22 Ethics Questions at Bioethics Journal
2011 May 24

PR disguised as medical research

Rising number of publications by authors from China

InTech, an open-access publisher, releases survey results on authors' attitudes towards Open Access

2011 April 8 Open access publication does not necessarily ensure more citations
2011 April 4

Royal Society reports national proportions of scientific publications changing

2011 March 14

Thomson Reuters on "Increasing the Quality and Timeliness of Scholarly Peer Review"

2011 January 25 Science.gov announces image search for science databases
2011 January 12

Nature Publishing Group announces "Scientific Reports" - dubbed "Nature ONE" by PLoS blogger: Press Release & Blog Comment

2010 December 29 Biology Letters publishes study by elementary school students

Study of retracted papers indicates scientific fraud is intentional

2010 December 6

Thoughts on Self-Plagiarism

2010 November 10

A field biology team's writing process

2010 November 9

PLoS Medicine article and editorial explore medical journals' competing interests

UK to review copyright laws 

2010 October 26

Researchers Investigate Plagiarism in Scientific Publications 

2010 October 18 Where's the line between marketing and research?
2010 October 4

Scholarly Kitchen criticizes proposed peer review alternatives

Results of Journal Editor Survey on Publication Ethics

2010 September 12

Questions over ghostwriting in drug industry

The Journal of Neuroscience changes supplemental material policies

Humanities Journal Tries Open Peer Review

2010 August 14 Reward Reviewers with "PubCreds" - Proposal & Discussion

US House Debates Free Access to Journal Articles

2010 April 2

A win for science reporting

 

Struggling with digital preservation

2010 March 25

MOMA adds @ to its collection

 

CONSORT 2010 statement published

 

The shortcomings of statistics

2010 March 12

Research Information Network publishes peer review guide for researchers

Online Journal of Veterinary Research publishes guidelines on animal ethics and welfare

PLoS policy: no tobacco company-funded submissions

2010 January 29 Elsevier wants unorthodox "Medical Hypotheses" to adopt peer review

Does information really want to be free?

Education prevents plagiarism

2010 January 22 ArXiv eprint server seeks "subscriptions"

LINKS:

ArXiv Grows Up, Adopts Subscription-like Model

Cornell University Library Engages More Institutions in Supporting arXiv

2010 January 20 Read Michael Clarke's post on the "disruption" of scientific publishing

PBS Story: Google's Book Digitization Project

Ten Wiley-Blackwell journals to adopt ‘condense and rotate’ printing

2010 January 4

Teaching Science with Song

 

2009 December 13

US Government Launches Interactive Public Forum on Public Access Policy

2009 August 18 Committee on Publication Ethics US Meeting November 9, 2009:  "Detection and management of publication misconduct"
2009 August 1

Proposal: Unique Identifier for Scientists

Take a Peek at Elsevier's "Article of the Future"

2009 July 20

Do away with journal-specific manuscript formatting?

A journal for rejected mathematics papers

2009 July 13

Obama names new NIH Head.

NIH releases new stem cell research guidelines

2009 July 1

Editors' views on publication ethics

Open access publisher accepts fake paper

2009 June 1

Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication, September 10-12, Vancouver, Washington

How Napster Changed Media.

2009 May 11

World Association of Medical Editors updated policy on Conflict of Interest in Peer Reviewed Medical Journals

Institute of Medicine calls for tighter Conflict of Interest Rules for Medical Research

2009 May 1

ScienceBlog reports Elsevier published "fake" journal for Merck advertising

From InsideHigherEd: Advice for Authors

2009 April 24 Heard of EigenFactor? A look at using JB as an example. see page 20 of ASBMB Today, April 2009
Scitable, Nature Publishing Group's foray into science education
2009 April 20

Can article downloads be correlated with citations?

2009 April 12

Proposal on Controlling Conflict of Interest (/JAMA./ 2009;301(13):1367-1372; paid content)

How Journals Respond to Possible Plagiarism (/Science/ 2009; 323: 1293-1294; paid content)

2009 March 23

Anesthesia studies fabricated

Is your journal being Twittered?

2009 March 9

Citations to Open Access vs Subscription Articles Blog from Chronicle of Higher Education

Read the article (requires subscription)

Responding to potential plagiarism

Read the commentary in Science (requires subscription)

2009 March 1 Nature editorial calls for verification of cell lines
2009 February 23 Help for authors in deciphering decision letters
2009 February 16 Fair Copyright in Research Work Act Resurfaces: Some are pleased: some are not.
2009 February 9

An experiment by the Journal of Biology on the need to re-review. In response, ISMTE offers the following: The community discusses /J Biology's/ policy on optional review of revised submissions: Blog1;  Blog2