How to Get All Trials Reported: Audit, Better Data, and Individual Accountability

How to Get All Trials Reported: Audit, Better Data, and Individual Accountability

In this week’s PLOS Medicine, the World Health Organization (WHO) publishes a landmark position statement, requiring all trials to make their methods and results available [1]. This represents important progress on a long-standing and global structural problem that has a clear, negative impact on patient care. The best currently available evidence shows that the methods and results of clinical ...

how to get iranian journals better indexed by foreign databases?

since increasing the number of indexing and abstracting services covering a journal would increase the total citations received by the journal, this study tried to investigate the reasons why iranian journals are not indexed by foreign databases including isi web of science and scopus. this was a descriptive and interpretative study resulting in guidelines for iranian editors and authors. it al...

How to get all "A"s in polyadenylation.

In an elegant study in this issue of Structure, Balbo and Bohm (2007) report the crystal structure of yeast poly(A) polymerase in a ternary complex with its substrate MgATP and the elongating poly(A) tail, providing molecular insights into the mechanism of polyadenylation.

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Why we need easy access to all data from all clinical trials and how to accomplish it

International calls for registering all trials involving humans and for sharing the results, and sometimes also the raw data and the trial protocols, have increased in recent years. Such calls have come, for example, from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Health Organization (WHO), the US National Institutes of Heath, the US Congress, the European Commi...