Inside Higher Ed: Correcting APA Style Guide

In an article “Correcting a Style Guide” in today’s Inside Higher Ed, reporter Jennifer Epstein writes:
Scholars turn to style manuals for guidance in authoring error-free manuscripts, but what happens when the manual itself is laden with errors?
Users of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association are trying to answer that question now, after the [...]

RWJF Slide Finder

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers a slide finder for presenters who want to use information gained through RWJF research outcomes in their own presentations. There are a total of 224 slides available for use. http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=44750

NYU Literature, Arts, Medicine Database

Added today to the NursingWriting “blinks” list is the Literature, Arts & Medicine Database initiated in 1993 by medical humanities faculty at NYU.
This index of literary texts, visual art, and media/performance touches on a broad range of representations of the body, wellness, illness, disease, and the healing professions. New additions and annotations are always welcome.
The [...]

New NIH Director, New Priorities

Francis S. Collins, physician and geneticist, has reported for duty at the National Institutes of Health as its new director .  According to the Chronicle of Higher Education he brings with him new priorities:
On Monday, he listed for his staff five goals for his tenure as director, including ensuring a “stable and predictable” supply of federal [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

RINAH Virtual Compendium

Research in Nursing & Health announces “the first virtual compendium of the most read articles and editorials on qualitative methods in Research in Nursing & Health. Although they cover a range of topics, 10 of these 14 papers show the growing concern over the last two decades with enhancing the utilization value of qualitative research. [...]

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.