The University of California has told the Nature Publishing Group that it will suspend its subscriptions to the group’s 67 journals if it does not relent over its decision to […]
Month: June 2010
Kayte McCann on dealing with the death of a close family member
Dealing with the death of a close family member, whether expected or otherwise, is perhaps one of the most harrowing things you can deal with. Doug Kamerow dealt with the […]
Neil Chanchlani: The silent killer
For most of us, it’s textbook – chills, fever, and phlegm. We know the impending list of causes and antibiotic management regimes off by heart, but what we don’t know […]
Neil Graham on the dangers of advertising abortion advice
In May Channel 4 broadcast a television advertisement for the sexual and reproductive health charity Marie Stopes. The charity says that its aim is to prevent unintended pregnancies and unwanted […]
Helen Jaques: Reporting from the front line of research
Monday morning. Wake up, drag yourself into town . . . and spend 45 minutes or so in a magnetic resonance imaging machine. That’s how I spent my Monday morning […]
Richard Hurley: Private financing of hospitals
Doctors should demand publication of the details of deals made between the UK government and private investors to build hospitals under private finance initiatives (PFIs), Professor Allyson Pollock told a […]
Sally Carter on the Council of Science Editors conference
I went to the Council of Science Editors conference in Atlanta, which was snazzily entitled “The Changing Climate of Scientific Publishing: The Heat is On.” Atlanta was indeed hot. I […]
Birte Twisselmann on new techologies
Day 2 of the SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing) meeting started with what was probably the best attended session of the whole event. “Geoff and Kent redux” featured the always […]
Richard Smith: Do I belong to a “failed generation?”
Baby boomers—those of us born between the end of the war and the early 60s—are a failed generation,” said Alex Jadad, chief innovator and founder, Centre for Global eHeath Innovation […]
Birte Twisselmann: Is there an app for that?
This year’s SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing) annual meeting, “A Golden Opportunity,” started on Wednesday, 2 June 2010. The evening’s “networking reception” in the exhibition space was buzzing, creating great expectations for […]