Christmas may be over, but the tradition of the Christmas issue of the BMJ as a treasury of weirdly funny, satirical or just plain bizarre research papers is the gift that keeps on giving – if you haven’t read it yet, you [ read more ]
A research article published in ‘Learned Publishing’ analyses attitudes among authors towards article publishing charges (APCs) – given that the rise of open access publishing is moving the financial burden of scholarly journal publishing from libraries and readers to authors. The results [ read more ]
Read this insightful and much-needed editorial piece on why scholarly journals should work towards adopting common standards in their instructions to authors, to improve efficiency and make the whole task of submitting research for publication much more user-friendly: Why [ read more ]
Are you getting ready to attend ISMPP EU? You have until 10 January to register for the European meeting, taking place in London, UK on 24–25 January 2023. The theme is ‘Fueling Creativity’ – check out the agenda and speakers, and download [ read more ]
If you’re in the business of publication planning and missed the Med Comms Networking webinar ‘Meet the Medical Publishers’ on 7 December, then catch up with the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPd_Ntcvh3g. The discussion was a great insight into how some [ read more ]
Recordings of presentations from the 7th World Congress on Research Integrity – which took place on 29 May – 1 June 2022 in Cape Town, South Africa – are now available on the WCRI Vimeo Channel. [ read more ]
Wolters Kluwer Health and NEJM Group have now partnered, enabling NEJM Group journals to be platformed on Ovid®. Publications currently included are the New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM Evidence, NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, NEJM Journal Watch, [ read more ]
Keep checking out the Med Comms Networking site for the latest in the series of in-person events and excellent, insightful webinars – such as ‘Meet the Medical Publishers’ (7 December) and ‘Forgotten Patients, Overlooked Diseases and Lost Health Solutions’ [ read more ]
Cochrane has launched a new open access journal in partnership with Wiley, Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods. It will focus on different types of evidence synthesis beyond systematic reviews, methods research evaluating how evidence syntheses are developed and disseminated, [ read more ]
Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing has a new open access journal – Environmental Research: Health – among the research published in the first issue are articles on the association between short-term exposure to air pollution and mental disorders, and [ read more ]