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Two Recent Editorial Seminars in Asia

CHINA A key objective for the Wiley China Publishing team in 2013/14 was to increase external editorial participation from Chinese editors and editorial board members. This involves getting the right people onto the editorial boards of our journals – people who can add value to the journals and aid in their growth in China, empowering…

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Mark Robertson By
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Authors of the Future: A Scandinavian Workshop

Karolinska Institute Library and Wiley-Blackwell jointly hosted an Author Workshop on September 29, 2011, at Karolinska in Stockholm, Sweden.   Entitled “Authors of the Future”, the program was aimed at younger researchers, with little or no publication experience. The morning started with an introduction by Martin Vinding, Publisher, Health Sciences, Wiley-Blackwell, who briefly outlined the production…

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Scholarly Journal Publishing: Developments and Implications

The basic functions of a research journal were first described by Henry Oldenburg as   registration, certification, dissemination, and archiving.  This has proved a robust model, with the number of titles growing steadily in an almost straight-line graph, from the launch of The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665 to a current total of…

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Bob Campbell By
Senior Publisher

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Your Starter for Ten, an interview with Dr Joan Marsh, President of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) and Associate Publishing Director, Wiley-Blackwell

1)      Joan, can you tell our readers about the main activities of EASE and why they should consider joining? Our flagship activity is our triennial Congress: the most recent was held in Pisa in 2009 and we are just starting planning the next one, to be held in Tallinn, the beautiful capital city of Estonia,…

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David Nicholson By
Vice President & Journals Publishing Director

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ARRIVE: New Guidelines for Reporting Animal Research

This month saw the publication in PLoS Biology [1] of the ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) guidelines – a checklist aimed at providing explicit and unequivocal instructions on reporting animal experiments.  These guidelines represent a new degree of stringency in requirements, which Wiley-Blackwell fully endorses as a means of improving scientific reporting and ethical…

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Senior Journals Publishing Manager, Life Sciences

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Retractions in Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Article retractions are apparently on the increase, as indicated by a report late last year in the Times Higher Education (THES).  To retract an article in a journal is a policy of last resort, once all other possible avenues have been explored.  As stated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the main purpose of…

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Allen Stevens By
Editorial Director, Health Sciences

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Chris Graf joins COPE Council

The council of the Committee on Publication Ethics appointed Chris Graf as a new council member. Chris joins the COPE team, which has just launched its new presence online at http://publicationethics.org/, to support the editors and journals that are COPE members. COPE’s membership exploded to more than 5000 journals in recent months thanks, in part,…

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Publication Ethics Phase 2: Implementing the Blackwell Guidelines

In late 2006 Blackwell Publishing became the first publisher to deliver a comprehensive set of guidelines on publication ethics [1]. The guidelines were created to help journals and editors avoid situations like the example below, reported in the New York Times [2]. Amid confusion, journal retracts Korean’s stem cell paperEditors of the journal Science have…

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Chris Graf By
Editorial Director, Health Sciences

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Comprehensive Guide on Publication Ethics Now Available

On November 30th Blackwell announced the launch of its Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics: A Publisher’s Perspective, becoming the first publisher to offer such a comprehensive resource to its journal editors and society partners. The guidelines were created to provide practical advice to editors on the major ethical principles of academic publishing and to…

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