Support has been swelling for open-access scientific publishing: doing it online, in a way that allows anyone to read papers free of charge.
Professor Adam Tickell, pro-vice-chancellor for research and knowledge transfer at the University of Birmingham said that universities were hugely supportive of the move toward the new model of scientific publishing.
Both the Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson have reported that Harvard professor of psychology Marc Hauser has decided to resign after an investigation concluded he was guilty of scientific misconduct in publishing questionable data in three papers he published in the major science journals.
Reed Elsevier, which in an unrelated move is to merge with Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch publishing giant, will keep New Scientist, which suits its policy of concentrating on scientific, medical and legal publishing.
So far there has been no forum for publishing failed scientific experiments.
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Publishing in the scientific literature is supposed to be tough.
Hundreds of scientific papers are deliberately hidden by publishing them all together in such totally obscure journals such as the Clinical Investigator and Molecular Aspects of Medicine, but only rarely in mainstream medical journals.
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Chief Financial Officer David Greenwood says the company is getting to a stage where it may be more hesitant about publishing new results--scientific papers will not be submitted, Greenwood says, until Geron's researchers are far enough ahead that releasing results won't help the competition.
And they sought to block scientists whose research led them to conclude that it is impossible to determine what role if any human activity has had in determining global temperatures from publishing their findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Is it restricted to publishing the work, possibly in a paywalled scientific journal, so that it can be discussed in academia and maybe the policy community?
The site is run by Nature Education, the educational division of Nature Publishing Group, the publisher of the venerable Scientific American and other science and medical journals.
The U.S. published more than 1.14 million scientific articles about biology and medicine between 2005 and 2009, publishing 250, 000 papers (29% of the worldwide total) in 2009 alone.
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Publishing organizations such as Toxicological Sciences are the guardians of scientific objectivity through accurate representation of published data and cannot ignore the possibility that letters to the editor can be used to circumvent these standards.
Publishing their results in The Lancet medical journal, the scientific team led by Dr Kristin Newby at the Duke Clinical Research Institute of North Carolina, said sibrafiban "showed no additional benefit over aspirin" in preventing cardiac arrest.
Today, Science Magazine, one of the top scientific journals and the original publisher of the GFAJ-1 work, is publishing two new papers that completely demolish the argument that GFAJ-1 is a completely new form of life.
In 2007, a study conducted by Jawhraa Abdul Rahaman, to explore the contentment of academics in universities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia towards open Access publishing - 63.4% of the total participants in the study showed their desire to have their scientific publications available for free access on the Internet in future, compared with 22.4% reported that they do not support the idea.
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