BOOK AND MEDIA
Two of our favorite and most trusted publication services, The EQUATOR Network and The Cochrane Community, have added new features. These additional services and publications will help authors and publishers promote scholarly work.
Automatic Translation Services at the EQUATOR Network
The EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) Network offers essential tools for medical writers. The organization provides reporting guidelines and checklists to assist authors in manuscript preparation. These tools assist authors in our global network and provide guidance with language and cultural syntax during manuscript development. The EQUATOR Network now offers an expanded feature-automatic website translation for all guidelines and tools!
EQUATOR is an international initiative that strives to promote transparency and accurate reporting of scientific work; this addition extends the dissemination of their support tools, enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in scientific knowledge. The new feature uses a WordPress automatic translation plug-in, based on the Google Translate functionality, to allow on-demand translation for more than 100 different languages. The translate function can be activated by clicking a button in the top section of the main website. This is a unique gift for international authors who engage translation services or editors to assist with writing, manuscript preparation, and editing. This no-cost EQUATOR option is a welcome addition for authors requiring translation services.
Learn more at https://www.equator-network.org/website-translation
Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods
Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods is Cochrane's first fully open access journal and is now open for submission. In March 2023, a webinar featured editor Michael Brown, who discussed the launch of the new journal and described how educators, researchers, and other professional can get involved. The new journal builds on Cochrane's 4 key principles: collaboration, relevance, integrity, and quality. One of the goals of this publication is to help researchers develop professionally. Specific features will investigate how to best facilitate peer-review mentoring to help early career researchers on the professional development ladder.
The journal welcomes different types of evidence syntheses across health and social care including scoping reviews, rapid reviews, evidence gap maps, brief reports, and methods research evaluating how to plan, produce, and disseminate evidence syntheses. Research articles seeking to inform and develop evidence synthesis decisions and methods, including priority setting, consumer involvement, and metaresearch, to improve research integrity will be considered. The format will include review articles, commentaries, and editorials. A more comprehensive guide can be found on the website, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/28329023/homepage/author-guidelines, under author guidelines.
Wiley's updates to authorship will also be featured on the journal website: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/Prepare/publis.