Chronicle: Publication in High-Impact Journals Is Found to Reinforce Advantage

Briefly noted in the Chronicle of Higher Education (26 Aug 2009) on line:
“A study by researchers at the University of Quebec at Montreal has affirmed that the principle of the rich get richer applies in the world of academic publishing, finding that papers published in high-impact journals collect about twice as many citations as do [...]

NLN Newsletter, Scholarly Writing Retreat

The Summer 2009 issue of the National League for Nursing’s member newsletter, The NLN Report, includes an article about the second NLN Scholarly Writing Retreat conducted by Marilyn Oermann last spring at the University of Nevada.
Entitled “A Nurturing Environment Gets the Job Done,” the article  describes the workshop conducted by Oermann and co-presenter Leslie Block, managing [...]

RoMEO Project: Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

Time was when you published an article in a journal that was circulated in print, requiring scholars and researchers to find a library that subscribed to the journal or secure a paper photocopy via interlibrary loan. Issues of copyrights and access were relatively simple–but limited.
Those days are gone.
Now your journal article may be published in [...]

Tutorial for New 6th Ed of APA Style

The new 6th edition of the APA Publication Manual and style guide now has an accompanying Flash video tutorial provided by the American Psychological Association. The Web link to this tutorial is also permanently included in our “blinks” list.
This new edition employs a research-to-publication process structure in its organization of the chapters.
This new edition takes into account [...]

Med Library, Nursing & Allied Health, Journal Survey

The Nursing & Allied Health Resources Section of the Medical Library Association (NAHRS/MLA), which assists nurses trying to publish, has started a NAHRS journals list project this year. For some of the data, they plan a survey of the editors of selected journals. The purpose of the list is to 1) help prospective authors decide [...]

How To: Lit Reviews

A brief article “The Literature Review” by Nancy Rivenburgh, associate professor of communication at the University of Washington, in the Mentor Memo feature of Inside Higher Ed for June 10, 2009, offers a concise explanation of the purposes of this genre and some guidelines for writing a lit review. Readers also offer some helpful advice [...]

Webinar: Write about Everyday Practice

Kathleen T. Heinrich RN, PhD is hosting a Sigma webinar entitled “Write about Your Everyday Practice: A Starter Kit” on May 21st at 4 pm EST.
Do you have something you want to write? Not sure where to begin? Whether it is an article for publication or a narrative for clinical advancement, this webinar will get [...]

Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication

Registration is now open for the Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 10-12, 2009.
This congress, organized by JAMA and the BMJ Publishing Group, will feature 3 days of presentations of original research. As with the previous congresses, our aim is to improve the [...]

Inside Higher Ed: Managing Large Writing Projects

John Gastil’s Career Advice column, “Managing Large Writing Projects,” in the 24 April 2009 edition of Inside Higher Ed offers credible advice to graduate students and faculty who are engaged in large writing projects (including dissertations and lengthy research articles). The article is consistent with research on faculty productivity, particularly the extensive research conducted by [...]

Career Advice: Collaboration & Co-Authorship

Philip N. Howard’s article “Collaborating and Co-Authoring” in Inside Higher Ed offers a primer on research collaboration and its dissemination.
Howard discusses forms of collaboration, equitable workload, and authorship credit.