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APS journals are developing ways to improve the journals’ accessibility to blind people and others with print disabilities while adding enriched content for all users. The journals currently use XML/MathML formatting for text and equations, with figures in Postscript. They are now working on making equations and images in a universally accessible format (DAISY, Digital Accessible Information SYstem). They hope to offer one of their journals with this option in 2010. Kekale T, de Weerd-Nederhof P, Cervai S, Borelli M. The “dos and don’ts” of writing a journal article. Journal of Workplace Learning 2009;21(1):71–80. (doi:10.1108/13665620910924925) Gives guidelines on typical problems that lead to rejection, and how to avoid these. If authors follow these guidelines the review process of articles will be smoother and the amount of rejects should diminish. Young researchers can find good suggestions about how to write a paper. Salager-Meyer F, Alcaraz Ariza MA, Pabón Berbesí M. Backstage solidarity in Spanish- and English-written medical research papers: publication context and the acknowledgment paratext. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2009;60(2):307–317. (doi:10.1002/asi.20981) Analyzes the acknowledgment paratext of medical research articles written in English and Spanish in three geographical contexts: Venezuela, Spain, and the United States of America. 150 research articles from leading medical journals in each country were randomly selected. Results show that acknowledgments from the English-language corpus are significantly more frequent and longer than those from both the Spanish and Venezuelan samples. The number of persons acknowledged and the number of grants received also were significantly greater in the US sample than in the two Spanish-language corpora. Technical/instrumental assistance was more frequently acknowledged than was peers’ ideational input. The communicative and sociocultural conventions of academic contributorship are not only discipline-dependent but also language- and context-dependent. Uzuner S. Multilingual scholars’ participation in core/global academic communities: a literature review. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 2008;7:250–263. Reviews 39 empirical studies that investigated multilingual scholars’ participation in core/global academic communities through article and research publication. These studies were analyzed in terms of multilingual scholars’ reasons for publishing in English, the obstacles that stand in their way of international publication, theoretical assumptions about their socialization and/or participation in core disciplinary communities, and suggested conditions for helping them contribute more to the global intellectual voice. The paper also sets out the conditions under which novice multilingual scholars (graduate students) may best be inducted into the mainstream disciplinary culture and suggests avenues for future research. © Copyright 2009 by European Association of Science Editors Top of Page |
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