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New information that is relevant to publication planning, is constantly being added to this freely accessible resource.
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LATEST COMMENTARY
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PRISMA for Abstracts: Reporting Systematic Reviews in Journal and Conference Abstracts
Published 9 April 2013
In this article from PLoS, Elaine Beller and colleagues say the title of a systematic review is its first signal of its relevance to potential readers. Few titles will entice a reader to invest additional time, but when they do, they ordinarily startÑand quite often endÑwith the abstract. The first impression is therefore crucial.
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Roche offers researchers access to all Tamiflu trials
Published 4 April 2013
This news article from BMJ reports that more than three years after the Cochrane Collaboration first asked Roche for the full clinical study reports for its influenza drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu), the Swiss company has offered the collaboration access to "all 74 Roche sponsored trials."
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Ushering in a New Era of Open Science Through Data Sharing
Published 18 March 2013
In this article from JAMA, Joseph Ross and Harlan Krumholz conclude that the possibility of a new era of research is within reach. The wall is crumbling, albeit slowly, and momentum is gaining toward open science through data sharing.
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What doctors think about industry involvement in peer-reviewed publications
Published 15 March 2013
Publishing clinical trial data is a fundamental part of communicating the science, but in this article from pharmaphorum, Tom Rees discusses the results of a recent survey which suggests that many doctors are sceptical.
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Future of medical publications
Published 13 March 2013
What will the medical publications of the future look like? Russell Traynor addresses this question by first exploring the importance of medical publications and what it is we actually need from them in this article from pharmaphorum
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Patients are urged to boycott trials that do not guarantee publication
Published 8 January 2013
In this BMJ News article, Zosia Kmietowicz reports on the new initiative (alltrials.net) which is backed by the charity Sense About Science, the BMJ, the Cochrane Collaboration, the James Lind Alliance (an alliance of patients and clinicians set up to identify priorities for research), Bad Science author Ben Goldacre, and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University, Queensland.
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The new BMJ policy on sharing data from drug and device trials
Published 20 November 2012
In this BMJ Editorial, Fiona Godlee and Trish Groves provide more details about their new policy which will come into force from 1 January 2013 and explain how they hope this will be taken as a clear signal by others.
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Trial Registration Numbers Are Underreported in Biomedical Publications
Published 14 November 2012
In this PLoS one article, Fleur T. van de Wetering and colleagues conclude that a substantial proportion of RCTs is still being published without the reporting of a trial registration number, thereby weakening the ability of users of this research to identify multiple publications of the same RCT, to cross-check the published report with the original design of the study, or to assess the risk of bias from selective reporting.
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Clinical trial data for all drugs in current use
Published 29 October 2012
In this BMJ Editorial, Fiona Godlee announces that the journal has specifically pledged to publish, with effect from January 2013, studies of drugs and medical devices - whether industry-funded or not - only where there is a commitment "to make the relevant anonymised patient level data available on reasonable request".
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Poor compliance with reporting research results - we know it's a problem... how do we fix it?
Published 11 October 2012
In this article from Current Medical Research and Opinion, Karen Woolley and colleagues describe how professional medical writers (not ghostwriters) could help researchers meet their overdue and future results reporting requirements and, importantly, how funds for medical writing services could be sourced.
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LATEST PRESS RELEASES
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AllTrials campaign launch
Published 9 January 2013
From Sense About Science
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