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 [ 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 [ read more ]

Don’t miss the recording of a free, fascinating European Association of Science Editors (EASE) webinar ‘The Dark Side of Science: Misconduct in Biomedical Research’ presented by Dr Elizabeth Bik, who discusses her [ 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 ‘Navigating Copyright in Medical Communications’ (2 November) and [ read more ]

An editorial in Nature Computational Science gives useful advice on what to write (and what not to write) when preparing a cover letter for manuscript submission to this journal. There is also [ read more ]

A new academic linguistic tool for researchers has been launched by Cactus Communications. PhrasePerfect is a freely available online writing assistant that helps find relevant words, phrases, reference papers and synonyms, performs data-informed two-word [ read more ]