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Legal Remedies for Medical Ghostwriting: Imposing Fraud Liability on Guest Authors of Ghostwritten Articles
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, News, PLOS
|Legal Remedies for Medical Ghostwriting: Imposing Fraud Liability on Guest Authors of Ghostwritten Articles Summary Points Ghostwriting of medical journal articles raises serious ethical and legal concerns, bearing on the integrity of medical research and scientific evidence used in legal disputes. Medical journals, academic institutions, and professional disciplinary bodies have thus far failed to enforce […]
"PressForward: A New Project Aims to Rethink Scholarly Communication For the Age of New Media Journalism"
Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, PLOS, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From the Nieman Journalism Lab Blog: Today, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University launches PressForward, a new discovery portal and publishing platform for scholarship and intellectual discussion on the web. The big idea of PressForward is to create a digital-first alternative to the cumbersome mechanisms of traditional gatekeepers […]
From Harvard Magazine (May-June, 2011): The benefits of collaboration are well accepted in the scientific world, but researchers with the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics wondered whether physical proximity affects the quality of those collaborations: Do scientists who have more “face time” with colleagues produce higher-impact results? To test the hypothesis, they examined data from […]
Towards Open and Equitable Access to Research and Knowledge for Development Summary Points + Unequal access to and distribution of public knowledge is governed by Northern standards and is increasingly inappropriate in the age of the networked “Invisible College”. + Academic journals remain the primary distribution mechanism for research findings, but commercial journals are largely […]
NOTE: This Blog Post Below Discusses an Article We Linked to On Wednesday. The Post Can Be Accessed Here. From a Blog Post By Zoë Corbyn on The Great Beyond (Nature Publishing Group) The results [of a study by Phillip Davis] stand in contrast to those found by open access advocate Stevan Harnad, from Southampton […]