Rising Scholars News

[This post is from is from Sergio Lozano—a physician, translator, and editor in Mexico. Thank you, Sergio! –Barbara] I recently facilitated a biomedical writing course with the participation of the …

[Below is a guest post from Alejandra Arreola-Triana, whose work includes Spanish translation for AuthorAID. Thank you, Alex! —BG] I will be teaching scientific writing next semester at my university, …

Avoiding the rejection pile

Greetings again. I hope your week has started well. As you may recall, the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers were our latest Resource of the Week. These guidelines …

We are pleased to announce our second set of small grants for 2013. Our travel grants are for researchers to present their work at conferences, and our workshop grants are …

Hello again. A few months ago our Resource of the Week was a draft of the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers. Comments were being sought …

Input on where to publish

Greetings again. I hope that all is going well for you. Well, it happened again. And again, I wasn’t sure how to react. First I was angry. Then I felt …

Hello again. Greetings from Oxford, England. I’m here for meetings at INASP, which oversees AuthorAID. In recent weeks, I’ve done lots of work-related travel. This travel has included attending …

Greetings again. I hope you’re doing well. Researchers can face many writing-related deadlines. There can be deadlines for submitting grant proposals, writing progress reports, revising manuscripts, reviewing proofs, finishing theses, …