Individual development plans aren’t just more paperwork
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Today is Ada Lovelace Day! Who is your role model in STEM?
Laura Wheeler from Digital Science tells more about Ada Lovelace Day and how Digital Science are inspiring those to share their role models in science, technology, engineering and maths.
1Wrapping up Peer Review Week with some news and resources from Springer and BioMed Central
As we come to the end of the first ever Peer Review Week, Celia highlights the resources we have put together to celebrate the week.
September blogs digest: giraffes, Alzheimer’s, sepsis, and more
Not had a chance to read all our posts this month? Here’s a roundup of what you’ve missed…
Starting your PhD and finding your feet
Think. Check. Submit. A helpful checklist for researchers
Recent years have seen an increase in new publishing services and outlets, in response to huge growth in the volume of research output. At the same time we hear increasing stories of malpractice or deceptive publishing, but little in the way of guidance exists when it comes to choosing a journal to publish in. A new campaign hopes to provide such guidance…
1What’s new in peer review?
As part of this week’s peer review celebrations, we asked Kathryn Maitland, Editorial Board Member for BMC Medicine, and Buzz Baum, Editorial Board Member for BMC Biology, for their take on peer review innovations and their preferred model of peer review.