"Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals"

"Randy Schekman, a US biologist who won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine this year and receives his prize in Stockholm on Tuesday, said his lab would no longer send research papers to the top-tier journals, Nature, Cell and Science....

Schekman said pressure to publish in "luxury" journals encouraged researchers to cut corners and pursue trendy fields of science instead of doing more important work...

A journal's impact factor is a measure of how often its papers are cited, and is used as a proxy for quality. But Schekman said it was 'toxic influence' on science that 'introduced a distortion'..."



See the report by Ian Sample in the Guardian online, 9th December 2013 for the full article and related comment postings.

Scion Medical ebooks : free access to students

Scion publishing are currently offering free access to two of their ebooks, until the end of January 2013.


Clinical Skills Explained

Muhammed Akunjee; Nazmul Akunjee; Zeshaan Maan; Mina Ally

Paperback - ISBN 9781904842781
Clinical Skills Explained provides medical students with the core information they require to undertake the clinical skills they need to understand during their medical careers.



Interpreting Chest X-Rays

Stephen Ellis

Paperback - ISBN 9781904842774

This book will equip all healthcare professionals, including medical students, chest physicians, radiographers and radiologists, with the techniques and knowledge required to interpret plain chest radiographs.


To access go to http://www.facebook.com/ScionMedical?fref=ts and follow the instructions for free access via http://www.referencetree.com.

Hodder Arnold Medical Student Advisory Panel

The publisher Hodder Arnold is currently recruiting medical students to serve as part of their Medical Student Advisory Panel.

Abigail Hiles of Hodder Arnold writes:

"Students who join the panel can earn FREE medical books by completing tasks such as:

• Sharing your ideas on medical book proposals
• Reviewing new books
• Displaying posters around campus to promote new medical textbooks

Becoming a member of the panel not only allows students to gain free book resources, but it also looks great on the CV! In addition, we'll be holding a free social event in London for members and prizes will be awarded.

 

Those interested in joining the panel can apply through www.hodderplus.co.uk/medpanel ."