Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data.

Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data.

Attwood TK. et al. Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data. Bioinformatics. 2010 Sep 15;26(18):i568-74. The authors have worked on the gap that exists between the mass of accumulating research data and the voluminous literature that describes and analyses this data. They have developed "Utopia Documents" a tool which is a pdf reader which integrates data analysis tools and visualization with published research articles. The reason for developing this novel pdf reader is that most people tend to read pdfs of articles and not the html versions. Utopia documents enables a shift from the static appearance in pdfs to…
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Combating plagiarism: a shared responsibility.

Combating plagiarism: a shared responsibility.

Rathod, Sujit. Combating plagiarism: a shared responsibility. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. 2010; 7:173-75. Cut, copy, paste - is so easy to do that many people do it! We once had a journal editor sharing with us, how an author had taken one of his publications, simply reordered the paragraphs and submitted the same! While most authors do not go to this extreme, we still do see many instances of plagiarism, which we suspect are mostly due to ignorance of details. This article by Dr. Rathod specially highlights the responsibilities of the scientific community as well as observers and readers…
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Research oriented medical education. ROME scheme: From reorientation to research oriented medical education, a new beginning.

Research oriented medical education. ROME scheme: From reorientation to research oriented medical education, a new beginning.

Highlighting two letters published in the IJMR, both based on an earlier article (Deo MG). on the need for research oriented medical education in India. (We had featured this in our newsletter issue of Sep 2009). One is from a student who has expressed his feelings and experiences and has offered suggestions. The other is from a faculty member who has been part of an initiative to do something about this. We hope to hear more from students and faculty on this topic! 1. Biswas, T. Research oriented medical education. Indian J Med Res. 2010 July; 132:111 2. Mahajan PB. ROME scheme: From…
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