Challenges in Publishing

Statistical challenges overcome in publishing GIS analyses

GIS data and methods have the potential to answer questions concerning agriculture that were too complex to even consider formulating until quite recently. Unfortunately for researchers trying to publish findings ranging from the reasons for spatial patterns in the distribution of weeds to options for the placement of straw-based biofuel refineries, the publication process is fraught with extra...

Publishing Open-Access Biomedical Data: Legal Challenges

This review article gives a brief overview of some of the key legal challenges the OpenScienceLink, http://opensciencelink.eu (hereafter OSL) project faced with publishing biomedical research data online on an open access and re-use basis. Firstly, we give an overview of some of the key privacy challenges that the OSL project faced. Secondly, we analyse the intellectual property challenges that...

The challenges of publishing on health informatics in developing countries.

The Journal of Health Informatics in Developing Countries was established to meet a perceived need for Health Informaticians in developing countries to be able to share the results of their research in an affordable and easy-to-access online publication. The journal was developed using the open source platform "Open Journal System," and has now published 67 articles across 13 issues. A collabor...

Changes in medical publishing: the challenges for an interventional journal.

A Need to Address Different Dimensions of Aging Challenges of Iranian Elderly for Publishing in Elderly Health Journal

According to a report by world health organization (WHO) in 2018, the population of the elderly over 60 years will double from 2015 to 2050, and will increase between12% to 22%. Also, in 2050, 80 % of the elderly will be from low and middle-income countries. Though population changes toward aging has begun from developed countries such as Japan, but in the middle of the 20th century, the elderl...