Research output in Asia is growing fast. According to National Science Foundation indicators published in February this year, the number of articles published by researchers in Asian countries increased from 89,000 in 1997 to 212,000 in 2011. If that trend continues, Asia – with China very much in the vanguard – is likely to overtake… Read more »
This year the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) European Seminar was held in Brussels, the first time it has taken place outside of London. Delegates were treated to a varied and thought provoking program covering the vast topic of European perspectives on publication ethics. Publication ethics is a vitally important topic for editors, as it… Read more »
From James Evans, Product Manager and Claire Bundy, Account-Sales Manager, Open Repository: Open Repository débuts in Mexico with new Monterrey-based client Open Repository is delighted to announce an agreement with the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ( ITESM) to host their DSpace institutional repository. ITESM is situated in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, and… Read more »
Most researchers will tell you that, at some point, they have had a bad experience with peer review, which at its worst is a slow, oblique process which “reflects all the civility of being thrown to the lions in the Coliseum.” Since launching in 2006, Biology Direct has always tried to remove causes of frustration… Read more »
The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) has published a response to Dubois et al. who have criticised the way online journals have interpreted the zoological Code (the rules you should adhere to if you want to publish zoological species names correctly). BioMed Central’s response is also published, which expands some of the points we made… Read more »
This is a guest post by Professor Phillipa Hay, Foundation Chair of Mental Health at University of Western Sydney and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Eating Disorders. To mark International Women’s Day, she takes a look back over her career in psychiatry and publishing. My first love has always been the humanities but I also found science stimulating…. Read more »
This is a guest post by Professor Rosemary Tannock, Editor-in-Chief of Behavioral and Brain Functions. To mark International Women’s Day, she takes a look back over how her career has developed from physiotherapy to psychopathology. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference… Read more »
This is a guest post by Sheila McCormick, an editor for BMC Plant Biology. To mark International Women’s Day, she takes a look back over her career in plant genetics and publishing. When I started college at Illinois State University, I thought I might become a high school biology teacher. But as the semesters went… Read more »
Since its inception in the early 1900s International Women’s Day has witnessed lots of changes both in societal attitudes and equality. The work in creating an equal society is far from over and this ties in with this year’s theme of ‘Inspiring Change’. In light of this theme we’ve asked some of our Editors to… Read more »
When a researcher gets their work published, months of hard work and dedication finally pay off. The rewards of being published in a reputable journal are immediately obvious, but what about the hard work that goes on behind the scenes? Peer review remains the gold standard for the evaluation of new research and key to… Read more »