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The Center for Science in the Public Interest
4th National Integrity in Science Conference
July 11, 2008. Washington, DC, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Rejuvenating Public Sector Science

A conference on restoring independent regulatory science
Special session:
“A Common Standard for Journals' Conflict of Interest Disclosure”
Conflict of interest reporting in the scientific and medical literature has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. Failures to disclose conflicts of interest have become front page news, and a major embarrassment to publishers, editors, and professional societies. At this special afternoon session of the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s “Rejuvenating Public Sector Science” conference, panelists will discuss a Model Conflict of Interest Disclosure Policy for use by scientific and medical journals. This model policy was developed over the past year by a group of editors and bioethicists as one possible approach to reducing the incidence of these recurring scandals. Sheldon Krimsky, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University, will present the problem; Merrill Goozner, Director, Integrity in Science, Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Thomas Babor, Associate Editor-in-Chief, Addiction, will discuss the proposal; and Hugh A. Tilson, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Health Perspectives, and Jeremy Theobald of the UK’s Committee on Publication Ethics will respond to the proposal. Please join us!

Register Now!
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=606569

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The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html

CROSSREF INDICATORS (June 26, 2008)

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,568
% of non-profit publishers 64%
Total no. participating libraries 1,387
No. journals covered 20,797
No. DOIs registered to date 32,514,008
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 358,998
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 10,660,746
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 21,928,242

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The latest additions to the CrossRef members' list can be viewed here
http://www.crossref.org/01company/new_members.html

New CrossRef Members (updated June 17, 2008)

Green Theory and Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy
Grupo Comunicar
Institutional Investor Journals
International Bee Research Association
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES)
Journal of Rheumatology
Lawrence and Wishart
Pensoft Publishers
Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana (UTFPR)

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The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html

CROSSREF INDICATORS (June 19, 2008)

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,566
% of non-profit publishers 64%
Total no. participating libraries 1,378
No. journals covered 20,746
No. DOIs registered to date 32,425,278
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 358,998
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 10,660,746
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 21,928,242

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 4:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

LYNNFIELD MA, June 19, 2008. – CrossRef announced today the official launch of CrossCheck, a new initiative to aid publishers in verifying the originality of scholarly content. Following on the success of CrossRef’s recent pilot of CrossCheck, this service is now open to all CrossRef member publishers.

CrossRef partnered with iParadigms, LLC, in creating CrossCheck powered by iThenticate (https://crosscheck.ithenticate.com). CrossRef members who choose to participate can verify the originality of works submitted for publication using the iParadigms iThenticate service to check against a vast database of proprietary as well as open web content.

The CrossCheck database is already slated to cover over 20 million journal articles from the following participating publishers: Association for Computing Machinery, American Society of Neuroradiology, BMJ Publishing Group, Elsevier, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, International Union of Crystallography, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Sage, Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), and Wiley Blackwell. With the launch today, both publisher participation and the CrossCheck database should grow quickly.

Until now, there was no automated way to check submissions against previous publications because the published literature had not been indexed and “text fingerprinted” for this purpose. According to Ed Pentz, CrossRef’s Executive Director, “CrossCheck is only as strong as the collective whole. It was important that the pilot publishers joined on but now we need the rest of the CrossRef members to join this initiative. We are happy that publishers such as Sage, Oxford University Press and Nature Publishing Group have agreed to participate in addition to the pilot publishers. We anticipate expanding the database of content very rapidly.”

About CrossRef
CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org) is a non-profit membership association founded and directed by publishers. Its mission is to enable easy identification and use of trustworthy electronic content by promoting the cooperative development and application of a sustainable infrastructure.

About iParadigms, LCC
Headquartered in Oakland, CA, iParadigms, LLC (http://www.iparadigms.com) is the leading provider of web-based solutions to check documents for originality and plagiarism.

CONTACT: Gabriel Boucher, gboucher@crossref.org, 781-295-0072; Fax: 781-295-0077 or for more information visit http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html.

CrossRef® and CrossRef.org® are registered trademarks and the CrossRef logo is a trademark of PILA (Publishers International Linking Association)

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 11:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html

CROSSREF INDICATORS (June 12, 2008)

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,563
% of non-profit publishers 64%
Total no. participating libraries 1,375
No. journals covered 20,728
No. DOIs registered to date 32,368,576
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 358,998
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 10,660,746
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 21,928,242

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 4:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A CrossRef Member Briefing is available that explains how PubMed Central (PMC) links to publisher full text, how PMC uses DOIs and how PMC should be using DOIs. The briefing is entitled "Linking to Publisher Full Text from PubMed Central" (PDF 85k).

CrossRef considers it very important the PMC uses DOIs as the main means to link to the publisher version of record for an article and we are recommending that publishers try to convince PMC to use DOIs in an automated way. Almost all of the PMC articles contain DOIs but they aren't linked. This seems like a waste considering that publishers have invested a lot in CrossRef and DOIs as unique identifiers and persistent links.

This issue will be of interest to anyone who publishers journal articles that are the result of NIH funding and fall under the NIH Public Access Policy .

Posted by Ed Pentz at 11:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The latest stats on CrossRef activity have been posted at
http://www.crossref.org/01company/crossref_indicators.html

CROSSREF INDICATORS (June 06, 2008)

Total no. participating publishers & societies 2,558
% of non-profit publishers 64%
Total no. participating libraries 1,375
No. journals covered 20,701
No. DOIs registered to date 32,312,478
No. DOIs deposited in previous month 358,998
No. DOIs retrieved (matched references) in previous month 10,660,746
DOI resolutions (end-user clicks) in previous month 21,928,242

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM

Lenox Hotel
61 Exeter Street, Boston, MA
www.lenoxhotel.com

2008 speakers to include Karen Hunter of Elsevier, John Wilbanks of Science Commons, and NYT Pulitzer Prize winning author Natalie Angier.

Meeting registration.
** NEW: Due to limited space, CrossRef publisher members are entitled to 2 free registrations and CrossRef affiliate members are entitled to 1 free registration. Additional registrants and non-members will have to pay
a registration fee of $275.00.

Hotel information.

Meeting agenda will be available soon.

Posted by Anna Tolwinska at 11:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Please join us for the next CrossRef webinar. An introduction and a brief outline of how CrossRef works will be presented. Members will have the opportunity to have their questions answered. New members are encouraged to register. The webinar agenda is coming soon.

Webinar Registration Form

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