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Ethics of Publishing: Balancing The Routine and Revolutionary
Ethics of Publishing: Balancing The Routine and Revolutionary
A focus on process
Think about this as how to institutionalize ethics processes into journal This is in fact what BMJ has done empirically with its ethics committee, first journal to do so and fine model to study Of course this may also result in guidelines but they will be more case-based Ethical framework: Accountability for reasonableness
Open access
Peer review including new open forms Citation analysis including new contextual forms Secondary reviews such as ACP Journal Club and Evidence Based Medicine
BMJs What this paper adds Most important papers list with explanation
From open access to global health equity, from Southern readers to authors
Bridging the North-South Gap: What can editorial bodies do? (2)
Create a core group of journal-editor mentors who might assist colleagues thinking of either writing papers or starting journals Include representatives from less-developed countries in governance of editorial organisations
Closing comment
[Editors] have to first accept that what they publish is mostly irrelevant to the 90% of the world. What is the point of having free access to a journal, when they don't publish what is relevant to the developing world? They have to come out of their cocoon and cross this barrier of relevance and the notion of serving a limited section of the world. Once they start looking beyond what is relevant to them, they would automatically start looking at research from the south ...
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to the following colleagues whose suggestions I paraphrase or quote on slides 17-22 of this presentation: Solomon Benatar (South Africa), Abdallah Daar (Oman and Canada), John Gyapong (Ghana), Nandini Kumar (India), Richard Muga (Kenya), Jens Mielke (Zimbabwe), Joseph Ochieng (Uganda), and Asad Raja (Pakistan).