Innovations, new strategies and surprising twists in Neurology: captured in new journal Neurological Research and Practice
What are the current hot topics in neurology, what do you anticipate will be the challenges and trends in the future within the field?
Neurology is such a rapidly moving field that it is impossible to anticipate what the new trends will be. We were frequently proven wrong with our predictions in the past, while completely unexpected developments happened and new avenues were opened.
One thing however is for sure: There will be numerous innovations, new strategies, surprising twists and turns, and within the new journal Neurological Research and Practice we try to capture some of them.
What are your research interests and w...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - October 1, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Victoria Hentschke Tags: Biology Medicine Open Access Publishing Neurological Research and Practice Source Type: blogs
BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition 2018 now open for submissions
Last year, to celebrate our transition from BioMed Central to BMC, we held our first ever ‘Research in progress’ photo competition. We received hundreds of fantastic entries covering everything from microscopy, ecology, and public health.
A year on, we are pleased to announce the launch of the 2nd ‘Research in progress’ photo competition. Once again we want to see your enthusiasm for science and progress reflected in your photography.
Your image should be related to research and can be focused on any area of your work and from any discipline including physical sciences, mathematics and engineering. Anyone with an i...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 27, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Davy Falkner Tags: Open Access Publishing Source Type: blogs
Cardio-Oncology is now the official journal of the International Cardio-Oncology Society (ICOS)
The worldwide role of ICOS
The International Cardio-Oncology Society was founded in 2009 after scientists demonstrated that cardiac side effects in patients being treated for cancer could be prevented. Years of subsequent research have demonstrated that cooperation between cardiologists and oncologists can meaningfully improve the outcomes of patients as well as their quality of life. Through promotion of training and study in cardio-oncology, ICOS has developed best practice strategies to prevent and treat cardiac toxicity in patients undergoing chemotherapy.
“It’s not just a matter of building up a society but s...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Brett Harrison Tags: Open Access Publishing Cardio-Oncology Source Type: blogs
Contributing to open science – a computational biologist ’ s perspective
We examined tools like RStudio that help researchers perform analyses in one centralized location and update reports as they collect data. We also used Author Carpentry resources from Caltech that extend Software and Data Carpentry pipelines to cover open, reproducible science writing and publishing options.
Some current obstacles to the production and publication of dynamic documents include the need for better definitions of what compendiums in each field should contain, how to cite the datasets, software, and articles within compendiums, and how to archive data and maintain stable versions for publication and copyrigh...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dr. Jacquelyn Meisel Tags: Biology Open Access Publishing open data open science reproducibility Source Type: blogs
BMC Energy – open for submissions!
BMC Energy opened for submissions on 14th August and was officially launched at the American Chemical Society Fall Meeting in Boston with a reception held at the Springer Nature booth. The journal is broad in scope and sits within the BMC Series, adhering to the BMC values of openness and inclusion. Whilst the journal covers all aspects of energy research, there is a distinct focus on sustainable energy.
The topic of energy research was chosen for this latest launch due to the increasing importance and the growth in research output of this field. Across the globe governments and businesses are investing in alternative ener...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 11, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Harriet Manning Tags: Open Access Publishing Technology BMC Energy Source Type: blogs
Patient peer review in academic journals: Next steps in the journey
Open science is one of the most important driving forces helping to develop the publishing field, which extends the principles of openness to the whole research cycle and aims to make science more accessible and transparent. There are many different elements to open science, with open access and open data being some of the most well-known. However, over the last 10-to-15 years one of these elements has really gained momentum: citizen science.
Citizen science is about involving and engaging patients and the public with scientific research at all stages of the research cycle. Key examples include initiatives such as James Li...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ella Flemyng Tags: Medical Evidence Publishing citizen science open science patient involvement peer review peer review week Research Involvement and Engagement Source Type: blogs
30 million downloads of open access book chapters
We’re proud to announce that there have now been more than 30 million chapter downloads across our open access (OA) books portfolio. That is for just over 500 OA books published by Springer Nature since we started tracking downloads from our official platform, SpringerLink, in 2013. We very recently published our 550th OA book.
At Springer Nature our mission is to advance discovery and an important way in which we are doing this is via our commitment to open research and providing authors with the ability to publish open access. We offer open access book and chapter publishing options to researchers of all disciplines, a...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 5, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Christina Emery Tags: Open Access Publishing open access books Source Type: blogs
Springer Nature welcomes Fire Ecology
Since 2005, the journal Fire Ecology has published important articles on all ecological and management aspects relating to wildland fire, including its effects on landscapes and ecosystems. It is managed and fully supported by the Association for Fire Ecology (AFE). It has been and will continue to be an online, fully open access publication that is freely available to read without a subscription.
During its 14 year life, the journal has had four Managing Editors (Mike Meddler, Jan van Wagtendonk, Jim Agee, and Bob Keane), but only one Copy Editor (Laurie Burk) and one Webmaster (Brett Cole). During this time, the team beh...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - August 30, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Robert Keane Tags: Biology Open Access Publishing Fire Ecology SpringerOpen Source Type: blogs
Helping researchers publish their work, not waste it: welcome to the EQUATOR Canada Publication School
Sharing new research findings through publication in peer-reviewed journals is a critical component of the scientific process. Authors typically learn how to plan, prepare, write, and submit academic publications through a process of trial and error and from their academic supervisors during their graduate training. They rarely receive any formal training in best-practices in publication methods.
As many authors new to academic publishing quickly realize, scientific writing is a skill and there is much to navigate between the first manuscript draft and eventual publication. In the widespread absence of training in modern p...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - August 23, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jacqueline Galica & Nancy Butcher Tags: Publishing BMC Proceedings education Source Type: blogs
The ‘SEAHA CDT collection’ in journal Heritage Science
This blog post has been cross-posted with permission from SEAHA-CDT. The original version can be read here.
Following multiple successful publications, we are pleased to announce that SEAHA now has its own collection within journal Heritage Science; ‘The SEAHA-CDT collection’.
The SEAHA CDT collection showcases research papers produced by students studying at our Centre for Doctoral Training, Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology based at UCL, University of Oxford and University of Brighton.
I see the journal Heritage Science as the ideal venue for our research output: it is interdisciplinary, ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - August 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Davy Falkner Tags: Open Access Publishing SpringerOpen Source Type: blogs
Competition and corruption in education: a lethal combination for academic integrity
“If you take me back to 1995, when [cheating] was completely and totally pervasive, I’d probably do it again.” (Lance Armstrong, BBC Sport 2015)
It is too simplistic to place all of the blame for cheating on individuals. While individuals do need to take personal responsibility for their actions, their behaviour is often symptomatic of wider and deeply entrenched patterns in society. As this Call for Papers suggests, when the two toxic pressures of competition and corruption intersect, it cannot be surprising that scholars at all levels of the educational spectrum may choose the ‘easy’ path of cheating to gain ac...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - August 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dr Tracey Bretag Tags: Open Access Publishing competition Contract cheating corruption education higher education Source Type: blogs
Contract cheating: a Canadian perspective
Contract cheating happens when a student has a third party complete academic work on their behalf. Students often purchase the work from Internet-based companies. Common examples of contract cheating include essay mills, custom writing services, and professional exam takers. Canada ranks among the top four countries from which students place online orders for completion of academic work, outpaced only by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. A Google search of “write my essay” and “Canada” in June 2018 rendered over 1.5 million results.
Figure 1. Google search for “write my essay” and “Canada,...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - July 24, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton Tags: Open Access Publishing academic integrity Canada Contract cheating research integrity Source Type: blogs
Data sitting on the shelf? Publish it as Micro Report
Published papers usually need a large amount of additional data to support and strengthen the main “striking” finding and conclusions. If this research is the lab’s main focus this causes no issues. However, pieces of interesting data off the mainstream topic of the lab can often be found in the research process.
In this situation, we may recognize the potential importance of the result, but the volume of the work needed to publish it could be overwhelming and sufficient enough to stop publication of the finding. This data is then placed on the shelf and is forgotten without being seen by others.
But, what if we can ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - July 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tsuyoshi Miyakawa Tags: Biology Open Access Publishing animal model Molecular Brain neurodegeneration neurodegenerative disease neurology neuroscience reproducibility Source Type: blogs
BMC enters the world of chemical engineering
As part of Springer Nature’s dedication to advancing discovery, BMC is expanding its scope beyond biology and medicine into the physical sciences and engineering. BMC Chemical Engineering is a new, open access, peer reviewed, community journal in chemical engineering. It launches alongside another engineering title BMC Biomedical Engineering, as Editor Alex Houssein explains in his blog, and ahead of a series of other new titles to come. Both chemical engineering and biomedical engineering are fields that combine engineering concepts with core scientific principles to develop real world solutions to the benefit of humani...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - June 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Harriet Manning Tags: Open Access Publishing BMC Chemical Engineering BMC Series Source Type: blogs
