Tag: publishing
Mike Charlesworth and Lee Feddy: ‘Predatory publishers’ – time for a re-think?
Imagine that you are a foundation doctor (PGY 1-2), and you have written a case report during your general surgery rotation. Your supervisor has approved the manuscript and delegated the responsibility of submission to you. …
Do medical journals need a more modern business model?
Do medical journals need a more modern business model? Societal subscription journals once accounted for the majority of medical publications. Frustrations with and criticisms of high individual article access charges however are fueling an open …
Sci-Hub. The pirate future of medical publishing? St.Emlyn’s.
It’s 3am in resus and you are trying to save the life of a young man. He has been brought to the ED after collapsing in a nightclub and he is sick, BIG sick. Hyperthermic, …