Yearly Archives: 2009

Societies

Sense About Science Update

We have previously mentioned Sense About Science (“a charity that equips people to make sense of science and evidence”) and the major survey on peer review http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/395 We should now like to draw attention to its recently published short briefing document on Systematic Reviews http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/PDF/SenseAboutSystematicReviews.pdf This type of literature review is well established in clinical…

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Christine Nelson-Rivers By
Project Manager, Society Relations

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Publishers for Development Meeting Highlights Key Priorities

Publishers for Development (PfD) was launched in 2008, and is a joint initiative of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and INASP (http://www.inasp.info/). The group aims to build a broader awareness of the context/specific needs of developing countries including the key issues of access, connectivity, and software applications. The latest PfD meeting took place at…

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David Nicholson By
Vice President & Journals Publishing Director

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Maintaining the Version of Record: Wiley-Blackwell Retraction Policy

Background Fuelled by some recent high-profile cases (see http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;303/5664/1669), much media attention has been focused on the issue of plagiarism and other cases of infringement. The widespread availability of academic articles on the Internet has made identification easier; while products such as CrossCheck (see http://wwwjp.blackwellpublishing.com/bw/journalnews/newsitem.asp?release=2348) have been developed to assist editors identify potential infringements. Wiley-Blackwell…

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Edward Wates By
Vice President & Director, Global Journals Content Management

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Breaking Down Barriers: Report on Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference

 I really liked having the format of paper with commentaries and then responses over a series of days. It really was fruitful for discussion and people seemed very responsive and respectful! Terrific format. S Morrison, Texas State Univ Your virtual conference is now the “gold standard” in the field. Dennis Mazur, Oregon Health & Science…

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Vanessa Lafaye By
Publisher, Social Science & Humanities Online Editorial

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Biomedical Editors Meeting in Vancouver

How many peer reviewers does it take to change a light bulb? Shy and retiring 300 editors in a room. Well mannered? Well turned-out? Shy and retiring? I’m delighted to report that the editors at the Peer Review Congress (aka Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication) were both well mannered and well…

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Chris Graf By
Editorial Director, Health Sciences

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Biodegradable Wrappers

Wiley will change the plastic polythene wrappers used for shipping Singapore-manufactured journals to 100% biodegradable wrappers beginning January 1, 2010. This will be implemented for around 800 journals published from our UK, US, and German offices. We will be looking to expand this initiative to cover more journals from other locations during the course of…

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Senior Manager, Freight & Logistics Procurement

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ALPSP Seminar on Plagiarism Detection and Management

A recent one-day seminar organized by ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) focused on a very topical issue: plagiarism detection and management. It was an interesting and very full day, so it’s only possible here to give a brief overview. Audio files of the presentations and the slides are available on the…

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Managing Editor, The Plant Journal

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Academic Libraries in North America Face up to Challenging Times Ahead

Every year in November a rather unusual library conference convenes in pleasantly warm Charleston, South Carolina. The Charleston Conference (www.katina.info/conference/) is independent of any library association and welcomes publishers and vendors as well as over 800 academic librarians, mainly concerned with acquisitions. This year, the overwhelming impression left by the many plenaries and concurrents was…

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Publisher, Health Sciences

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Wiley-Blackwell’s Executive Seminars, 2009

The Wiley-Blackwell Executive Seminar program, launched in 2002 by Blackwell, has proven to be an effective and popular way of keeping society officers and editors up to date with industry news and issues, and providing a forum for them to network with their peers. We recently hosted two events, the first in Washington, D.C., on…

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Alice Meadows By
Director of Society Relations

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Wiley-Blackwell: CrossCheck for Journal Titles

CrossCheck is a CrossRef initiative to provide tools for the prevention of scholarly and professional plagiarism. There are two elements to CrossCheck: the database and the originality (plagiarism) detection tool (iThenticate software provided by iParadigm): The database contains indexed published content from CrossCheck members. (For a full list of members see: http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck_members.html) The originality detection…

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Project Manager, Social Science & Humanitites

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