Yearly Archives: 2004

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Optimizing Articles for Search Engine Rankings

A recent article in British Medical Journal (Perneger: BMJ 2004;329:546-547) indicated a correlation between online hits and subsequent citations for journal articles. So making sure articles are found online is increasingly important for authors and journal editors. Research commissioned by Blackwell shows that while most researchers use “abstracting and indexing” services to begin a search…

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Lorna Berrett By
Director, Society Project Management

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An Overview of the Middle East Journals Market

Early in August, Dr. Mehrdad Fahimi, the Managing Director of our main agent in the Middle East, IIN, visited our Oxford offices to give a presentation about the characteristics and changes in the journals business in the Middle East. We have summarized some of the interesting points he covered here to give you an overview…

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Emily Gillingham By
Director of Library Relations

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Research Alerts

The increasing number of journals and articles available earlier and faster online provides researchers with a rich resource, but keeping up to date with research in your field can be a daunting task. How can you be sure to have scanned all the journals relevant to your subject? What about the articles that are published…

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Lorna Berrett By
Director, Society Project Management

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Supplementary Material

Supplementary Material is provided by the author to support the content of the parent article but is not integral to that article. It is not normally considered in the peer-review process but it requires a formal decision to accept by the Editor; it should not be added at a later stage. Following is an outline…

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Institutional E-print Repositories

In April, Stephen Pinfield, the Assistant Director of Information Services at Nottingham University, visited Blackwell Publishing and gave staff a thought provoking presentation summarizing the issues around self-archiving of research papers. He explained the process as it exists now and discussed how it might develop in the future. He presented no particular bias for or…

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How to cite OnlineEarly articles

OnlineEarly is a feature of Blackwell Synergy that enables readers to access fully finished, peer-reviewed articles before the print issue is published. This means that new research can be published faster and still maintain the quality of the final version. Around 50 titles include OnlineEarly articles on Blackwell Synergy currently. OnlineEarly articles are considered fully…

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Making the Impact Factor work for you

Love it or hate it, Impact Factor* remains the standard measure of journal quality. It contributes to key decisions across the entire spectrum of academic life, from tenure and promotion committees assessing candidates, through librarians deselecting journals and funding bodies evaluating bids, to researchers who are choosing where to submit an article. Editors and societies…

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