Editing and publishing resources
The following is a selected list of organizations, website, initiatives, books and journals that may be of use to editors and publishers. If you would like to suggest any additions, please email me.
Editorial organizations
- Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): UK-based organisation which advises editors. It has useful policy statements
- Council of Science Editors (CSE): US-based organization
- Eastern Mediterranean Association of Medical Editors (EMAME): WHO-supported organization with useful handbook and events
- European Association of Science Editors (EASE): a mixture of editors and technical editors
- International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE): authoritative organization that issues standards (e.g. on authorship) that are widely accepted in all disciplines
- International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE): represents managing editors around the world.
- World Association of Medical Editors (WAME): a worldwide organization for medical editors. Has policy statements, forum, booklists etc.
Publishing organizations
Events
Most of the organizations listed here have regular events.
Congress on peer review and biomedical publication, USA. This large conference is only held every 4
years.
http://www.peerreviewcongress.org/
Useful websites
- EASE resources including a toolkit for authors, and EASE Guidelines for authors: http://www.ease.org.uk/publications
- EQUATOR Network. Providing a portal to reporting guidelines. http://www.equator-network.org/
- Journal selection for Medline: information and criteria for selecting journals www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html
- SPARC PLOS, OASPA (2013) HowOpenIsIt? Open Access Spectrum. http://www.plos.org/open-access/howopenisit/
- Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to medical journals (ICMJE): Includes statements on authorship, conflict of interest, editorial freedom, etc. www.icmje.org
Blogs
- ALPSP Blog: http://blog.alpsp.org/
- Scholarly Kitchen: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
- Retraction Watch: http://retractionwatch.com/
- Richard Poynder’s blog, Open and Shut: http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/
Books and reports
- Campbell R, Pentz E, Borthwick I (eds) (2012) Academic and Professional Publishing. Oxford: Chandos Publishing.
- Cope, Bill and Phillips, Angus (eds) (2009) The Future of the Academic Journal. Chandos.
- Hames, Irene (2007). Peer review and manuscript Management in Scientific Journals. Wiley.
- NFAIS (2010) Best Practices for Publishing Journal Articles. National Federation of Advanced Information Services. http://www.nfais.org/files/file/Best_Practices_Final_Public.pdf
- Morris, Sally, Barneas, Ed, LaFrenier, Douglas and Reich, Margaret (2013) The Handbook of Journal Publishing. Cambridge University Press.
- Smart, P (2018) Handbook for Journal Editors. INASP. Also available in Turkish and Russian (contact Pippa Smart) https://www.inasp.info/editorshandbook
- Smart, P, Maisonneuve, H and Polderman, A (2013) EASE Science Editors’ Handbook, 2nd edn. European Association of Science Editors.
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Ware, M. and Mabe, M. (2018). The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing. https://www.stm-assoc.org/2018_10_04_STM_Report_2018.pdf
Journals
- European Science Editing: https://ese.arphahub.comhttps://ese.arphahub.com
- Journal of Electronic Publishing: http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/
- Learned Publishing: www.learned-publishing.org
- Publications : https://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications
- Research Integrity and Peer Review: https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com
- Science Editing: https://www.escienceediting.org/authors/authors.php
Various useful initiatives and tools
- EQUATOR network - promoting reporting guidelines: https://www.equator-network.org//
- ORCiD – unique identifiers for authors: http://orcid.org/
- Kudos – system to help authors promote their work: https://www.growkudos.com/
- Peerage of Science – collaborative peer reviewing site: https://www.peerageofscience.org/
- Publons – recognition for peer reviewers: note that it was bought by Clarivate and since the purchase is difficult to use and appears not to provide the same functionality - however many publishers are still linked into the service to provide automated recognition for authors: https://access.clarivate.com/login?app=wos
- Editage: author support: https://www.editage.com
- Enago: author support: https://www.enago.com
- Charlesworth Author Services: www.cwauthors.com
- ASAPbio: peer review initiative: https://asapbio.org
- SciRev: data on journal peer review times, etc.: https://scirev.org/statistics/first-round/
Short videos
To watch some (now quite old) short videos on editorial and publishing issues click here.
Alternatively, view them on my YouTube channel,
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