Set F – 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Elsheikh Elsiddig Badr, Editor-in-chief, Sudanese Journal of Public Health; Soe Aung, Editor-in-chief, Myanmar Medical Association Newsletter; Kenneth R. Fernandez Taylor, Editor-in-chief, Revista Signos Vitales; A.E. Ohwovoriole, Editor-in-chief, West African Journal of Medicine; Kenneth F. Heideman, Director of Publications, American Meteorological Society, and Iain Taylor, Editor, Davidsonia, Moderators

Do journal editors in the developing world want help from their colleagues in developed countries? If so, the well-supported editorial community needs to know those needs. CSE's EditorLink Support Project is concerned to answer calls for assistance rather than suggesting what we think is useful. The panelists in this session will present some of those calls for help and ask those in attendance to provide ways and means to meet those needs.

F2. Alternatives to Impact Factor

Marian Hollingsworth, Director, Public Relations, Thomson Scientific; Jevin West, University of Washington; Diana Schmidt, Biology Librarian, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign; Bruce Dancik, Editor-in-chief, NRC of Canada Research Journals Moderator

Most editors and authors can wax poetically about the problems associated with the use and misuse of the Impact Factor. Yet, the Impact Factor continues to reign supreme for assessing articles, journals, researchers and in some cases entire university departments. The search is on, however, to find new assessment tools for measuring the impact of scholarly publications. During this session, some of these new tools will be discussed.

F3. Building the "Health Knowledge Commons": Open Access, Human Rights, and What the Commons Means for Researchers and Editors

Anita Palepu, Co-Editor, Open Medicine; Claire Kendall, Deputy Editor, Open Medicine; Jocalyn Clark, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Gavin Yamey, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine; Gavin Yamey, Moderator

On December 26 2007, George Bush signed a bill into law mandating that NIH researchers make their papers freely available. This new law is the latest step toward creating a digital library of health research that is universally available - free to read and free to reuse. In this session, editors from two open access health journals discuss the implications and impacts of creating such a library, with a particular emphasis on public health, health research, and human rights. They will also give a "state of the art" update on recent open access mandates and legislation worldwide.

F4. How Easy to Cheat? How Easy to Uncover Cheating?

Trish Groves, Deputy Editor, British Medical Journal; Thomas Gerber, Departments of Radiology and Internal Medicine-Cardiology, Mayo Clinic; Margaret Winker, Deputy Editor, Division of Scientific Online Resources, JAMA; Penny Hodgson, Executive Editor, American Heart Journal, Moderator

For years scientific journals have struggled with such misdeeds as plagiarism and redundant publication. In this era of rapid access to the work of others, instances of misdeeds appear to have increased but so have instances of discovering such inappropriate publications-related activities. Come learn from three speakers about clever new ways researchers attempt to cheat the system, both high- and low-tech means of uncovering them, and a related survey that is currently underway.