EQUATOR News
15/04/2014 Implementation of reporting guidelines in journals: Wolters Kluwer experienceWolters Kluwer has recently introduced open access article types to their newly fully open access journal title Medicine. The journal’s open access article types require authors to adhere to appropriate reporting guidelines and to submit checklists and flow diagrams when […]
09/04/2014 Collaborative initiative involving 28 rehabilitation and disability journals28 major rehabilitation and disability journals have joined together in a collaborative initiative to enhance research reporting standards through adoption of reporting guidelines
08/04/2014 Videos from Lancet/NIHR “Waste in Research” symposium available onlineVideos from Lancet/NIHR “Waste in Research” symposium are now available. Of particular relevance to EQUATOR is a presentation and paper by Paul Glasziou and colleagues on “Reducing waste from incomplete or unusable reports of biomedical research” (watch talk 6) See […]
18/03/2014 Wiley’s New Publication Ethics GuidelinesWiley has published a newly revised and updated edition of its “Best Practice Guidelines on Publishing Ethics: A Publisher’s Perspective”. The guidelines provide practical advice to editors on the major ethical principles of academic publishing including the section on research […]
07/03/2014 New guideline for better description of interventionsThe BMJ has published a new reporting guideline aiming to improve accuracy and completeness of published description of interventions. Hoffmann T. et al. Better reporting of interventions: the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide. BMJ 2014; […]
05/03/2014 Reporting guidelines in veterinary journalsDouglas Grindlay and colleagues conducted a study aiming to assess the knowledge and views of veterinary Editors-in-Chief on reporting guidelines, identify the policies of their journals, and determine their information needs. Full text of the paper is available at BMC […]
14/02/2014 Threaded publications updateThe BioMed Central blog highlights a recent meeting that brought together publishers and CrossRef to discuss how to build upon previous work undertaken to implement the concept of threaded publications
12/02/2014 VACANCY: EQUATOR Network is seeking a new co-ordinatorThe EQUATOR Network is seeking to employ an experienced and motivated co-ordinator to support its expanding activities. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity that will appeal to a person who enjoys working in a small team, undertaking a variety […]
30/01/2014 International Journal of Medical Students supports Declaration of transparencyThe International Journal of Medical Students is an online peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal, created to share the scientific production and experiences of medical students worldwide. Authors are asked to sign Declaration of transparency as part of their submission checklist.
28/01/2014 NIH plans to enhance reproducibility of scienceFrancis S. Collins and Lawrence A. Tabak, directors of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), discuss initiatives that the NHS is exploring to restore the self-correcting nature of preclinical research. Read the full article in Nature 2014;505:613