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In a blog for Wiley this week, Liz Wager (a freelance publications consultant, http://www.lizwager.com) provides her views on the importance of the new Good Publication Practice guidelines (GPP3). Liz was … Continue Reading Why it’s time for the new Good publication Practice Guidelines (GPP3)
In 2005, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) introduced mandatory trial registration guidelines and member journals require prospective registration of trials prior to patient enrolment as a condition … Continue Reading Evidence that industry may be better than academia at prospective trial registration, though improvements are required
A study published in BMC Medicine this week assessed the consistency between the reporting of serious adverse events (SAEs) posted at ClinicalTrials.gov and those published in corresponding journal articles. Key findings … Continue Reading Comparison of serious adverse events posted at ClinicalTrials.gov and published in corresponding journal articles
A survey of 22,000 academic researchers by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan has found that a decreasing number of authors are concerned about perceptions of the quality of … Continue Reading Perceptions of open access publishing are changing for the better
A study published in PLOS ONE in the past week investigated if the number of null results in large National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) funded trials has increased … Continue Reading Likelihood of “negative” publications from large NHLBI clinical trials has increased over time
Manuscript abstracts are an important source of information for healthcare professionals, who may use the information as a basis for treatment decisions. This is particularly the case when open access articles are … Continue Reading Quality of manuscript abstracts in phase III clinical trials versus the CONSORT guidelines
Good Publication Practice 3 (GPP3), a key guidance document for the publication of company-sponsored medical research, has been published online today by the Annals of Internal Medicine. The full article … Continue Reading The latest Good Publication Practice guidelines for industry (GPP-3) are now published
A recent blog by Altmetric reviews some recent innovations that have taken place in scholarly publishing, and discussed their implications, including: Greater openness Greater diversity Greater engagement The author of … Continue Reading Scholarly communication’s only going to get better [Altmetric blog]
One well drawn graph or diagram can speak volumes about the way an experiment was carried out, how the data were analysed, or sample identity and size. A poorly thought-out … Continue Reading Do journal figures always tell the right story?
A BioMed Central blog published in the past week provides insights into the growth of open access in China, and explain the reasons behind it. The blog can be found … Continue Reading A window into open access publishing in China
A blog this week by Editage states: “Most researchers are aware of predatory scholarly publishers. However, predatory scholarly conferences pose a new threat to scholarly communications as researchers find themselves … Continue Reading Predatory scholarly conferences pose a new threat to scholarly communications
The AllTrials initiative has had great success in raising awareness in Europe about the benefits of publishing the results of all clinical trials. Now AllTrials have launched an expansion of … Continue Reading AllTrials Campaign Launches in US
A study published this week – which gathered information about the retraction policies of the top 200 scientific journals, ranked by impact factor – found that 3 times as many … Continue Reading Three times as many journals have retraction policies now vs 2004
The American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) Annual Conference is now open for registrations. The meeting will take place between September 30th and October 3rd in San Antonio Texas. The organisers … Continue Reading Registrations now open for the 2015 Annual Conference of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)
In an unprecedented move, a group of 85 asset managers and pension funds is teaming with a U.K. non-profit campaign (AllTrials campaign) to pressure pharmaceutical companies to disclose clinical trial data (i.e. get … Continue Reading Pharma company investors call for clinical trials transparency