The parallel development of information and communication technologies, and the pervasiveness of electronic information fuelled by the Internet, has provided electronic publishing with new explosive growth opportunities. Electronic publishing (EP), from its initial mainly text-based stand-alone publication base, is fast transforming into a resource set of interactive publications endowed with r...

As surgeons we rely in part on textbooks and learned articles to inform our practice, to keep up to date and to ensure we are able to deliver the best care to our patients. We also undertake research, review scientific articles and present our findings at meetings and in print. Underlying all we do should be the principles of honesty and transparency. This article considers these principles in ...

Scientific research is a process concerned with the creation, collective accumulation, contextualization, updating and maintenance of knowledge. Wikis provide an environment that allows to collectively accumulate, contextualize, update and maintain knowledge in a coherent and transparent fashion. Here, we examine the potential of wikis as platforms for scholarly publishing. In the hope to stimu...

We are all troubled by ethics violations we see in the newspaper and other media outlets. Are there similar areas of concern in the sciences and in poultry science? Recently there have been a number of cases in some of the most prestigious scientific journals, including Science, of papers being withdrawn because the results were not replicable due to scientific misconduct or fabrication of resu...

When assessing manuscripts eLife editors look for a combination of rigour and insight, along with results and ideas that make other researchers think differently about their subject.

Semantic publishing can enable richer documents with clearer, computationally interpretable properties. For this vision to become reality, however, authors must benefit from this process, so that they are incentivised to add these semantics. Moreover, the publication process that generates final content must allow and enable this semantic content. Here we focus on author-led or “grey” literatur...

ghajar era opened up a new chapter in the life of iranian women; as a result of intellectual growth in this period iranian women got a chance to enter social scenes more than before, and their role appeared in social and cultural events. constitutional discourse, social development and resultant freedom created a chance for women to openly express their perspectives and try to realize them; pub...