Monthly Archives: January 2010

How to publish raw clinical data: guidelines from Trials and the BMJ

An increasing number of peer-reviewed journals and research funding agencies require authors to make available the raw, unprocessed data supporting the findings reported in their research articles (click here for information on why this is important). Just this month, for example, The American Naturalist announced that its authors must make their data publicly available as… Read more »

Publishing

Two more journals on course for Impact Factors

Harm Reduction Journal and International Journal for Equity in Health have both been accepted for inclusion by Thomson Reuters and are due to receive their first impact factors in June 2011. Harm Reduction Journal, which is overseen by Ernest Drucker has an unofficial 2008 impact factor of 1.68, and International Journal of Equity in Health… Read more »

Publishing

BioMed Central’s comments in response to the US Office of Science and Technology Policy request for contributions to its Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research

BioMed Central has today submitted the following contribution to the US Office of Science and Technology Policy’s  Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research:(see also OASPA’s contribution, also submitted today) BioMed Central operates a commercially viable business as an open access publisher. Under our publishing model, the costs associated with research publication are… Read more »

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