Increased cancer risk following computed tomography scans
Two papers (this and this) and an editorial in the latest issue of Archives of Internal Medicine examine the cancer...
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On giving a talk about Open Access in my department
Earlier this month I gave this talk in my department. It is basically a summary of two blog posts that I wrote in October during Open Access Week (Open Access Week: a researcher's perspective...
Nature Communications: Interview with Lesley Anson
Nature Communications is a new journal that will launch in Spring 2010. The journal will publish papers in all areas of the physical, chemical and biological sciences and is open for submissions. The Nature Publishing Group...
Publication bias in clinical trials
Last week the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a paper on selective outcome reporting in clinical trials (Vedula et al. 2009). The primary and secondary outcome(s) of a clinical trial could for example...
Moving article-level metrics forward
In September PLoS started to show usage data (downloads, citations, but also use of social bookmarking services and blog posts) for all their published papers (article-level metrics at PLoS: addition of usage data). PLoS is not...
UK PubMed Central: Interview with Phil Vaughan
PubMed Central was launched in February 2000 by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a free digital...