Scientific Events: The Scientific Jubilee of Charles Richet; Field Excursion of Ohio Geologists; Legislation against the Teaching of Evolutin in Louisiana; The Golden Jubilee of the American Chemical Society; The Fifth Philadelphia Meeting of the American Associationand Associated Societies ............................................ 9 Scientific Notes and News .................... ..............

ike many scientist-editors of journals published by nonprofit scientific societies, I have a love-hate relationship with Sci-Hub, the website operated out of Russia that provides access to 50 million pirated scientific articles to researchers worldwide (see the News story on p. 508). I recognize the underlying motivation of bringing global research content to the developing world. However, I al...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the production of research papers by Spanish authors on diagnostic imaging published in the official journals of two Spanish scientific societies (Revista Española de Cardiología and Radiología) between 1994 and 1998, and to compare publication rates with those of research papers published in foreign cardiological and radiologica...

Sleep medicine is a rapidly growing field. At present, there is a lack of standardisation and the quality of clinical decisions may vary widely. The best way to resolve this problem is to establish a procedure for certification, for both centres and physicians [1]. However, the implementation of a procedure of this kind is difficult, for a variety of reasons; for example, the wide range of crit...

Behavioural biology is a major discipline within biology, centred on the key concept of `behaviour.' But how is `behaviour' defined, and how should it be defined? We outline what characteristics we believe a scientific definition should have, and why we think it important that a definition have these traits. We then examine the range of available published definitions for the word. Finding no c...

OBJECTIVE To describe how Italian medical societies interact with pharmaceutical and medical device industries through an analysis of the information available on their websites. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING Italy. PARTICIPANTS 154 medical societies registered with the Italian Federation of Medical-Scientific Societies. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Indicators of industry sponsorship (...

BACKGROUND Within national and international societies of psychosomatic medicine the idea has emerged of bringing together and coordinating psychosomatic, behavioural, psychological and medical actions with common interests throughout Europe as a way to increase their scientific and political influence. METHODS It was felt that there was a strong need and opportunity of a common and unifying ...