Conferences are avenue for getting published

Getting Published for Academics

It is by no means a trivial matter to undertake a research project and produce an academic paper to a publishable standard. However, it is not as difficult as many university teachers who do not publish believe. The single most difficult step is the first one of getting started. Once this has been taken the apparent enormity of the problem often substantially dwindles. Eight points are suggeste...

Ten Simple Rules for Getting Published

The student council (http://www. iscbsc.org/) of the International Society for Computational Biology asked me to present my thoughts on getting published in the field of computational biology at the Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology conference held in Detroit in late June of 2005. Close to 200 bright young souls (and a few not so young) crammed into a small room for what proved to be a w...

Getting published--improving the odds.

Are medical conferences useful? And for whom?

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED BY MEDICAL SOCIETIES and related organizations are a dominant feature of the academic, professional, and social life of all health-related disciplines. These events come in all sizes, from relatively small, local gatherings, workshops, and symposia to large international megacongresses that mobilize tens of thousands of clinicians, researchers, exhibitors, and staff to bui...

On getting published in the SAMJ.