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Dealing with cases with culturally offensive content
Society journal X and propriety journal Y have received complaints regarding historic papers published in their journals (generating a lot of anger on twitter). The papers outline a practise the society (who had a historic role in its development) no longer endorse. The society has released an apology about their involvement with the practise, but the practice itself is not illegal (in the majo… - News
In the news: February Digest
…Kitchen’s contributors discusses this move in the context of a movement to 100% open access.https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/01/22/celebrating-30000-open-access-articles/ International research topics The US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and… - Forum discussion topics
Editorial conflicts of interest
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Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…retracted and this damaged faith in community-driven rapid review. This time, however, we seem so far to have avoided these reservations. The story started on 28 July when a research group from South Korea announced on the ArXiv preprint server that they had found a material which acted as a superconductor at room temperature [1, 2]. - News
In the news: October-November 2021
…journals that collect demographic data on editors, authors and peer reviewers. A recent post in the Scholarly Kitchen discusses AGU’s work on maximising participation from diverse contributors. Based on detailed analysis of baseline data, they have concentrated on increasing the representation of… - News
In the news: October 2018 Digest
…positive impact on society. There are 3 pillars: accountability, analysis and engagement.http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/08/22/developing… - Guidelines
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
…must keep to its publishing schedule unless there are exceptional circumstances. 4. Archiving A journal's plan for electronic backup and long term digital preservation of the journal content, in the event that the journal and/or publisher stops operating, should be clearly indicated. Examples include PMC and those listed in the Keepers Registry. 5. Copyright The… - News
In the news: July 2021
…/may/22/world-expert-in-scientific-misconduct-faces-legal-action-for-challenging-integrity-of-hydroxychloroquine-study" target="_blank">questioned the methodology of an RCT of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19 disease by Dr. Didier Raoult in March 2020. Since then, Raoult has waged a public campaign, including publication of her home address and calling her names such as “nutcase”… - Seminars and webinars
Webinar 2021: Diversity, equity and inclusion
…allowed multiple options to be chosen, and received a total of 306 votes across all options. The most popular request is for Guidelines to be created (34% of votes), along with Flowcharts (26%) to aid decision making and increase confidence in processes to follow should any incidences of questionable material appear. Guidelines - 103 Flowchart - 80 Discussion Document…