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This article studies the trajectory of the editor Jorge Herralde and the project and editorial policies of the Anagrama publishing house, which he founded in 1969. The narrative is structured by two central moments in its history: the crisis of the company during the period of the Spanish transition, and the fight for the defense of independent publishing in the 1990s and 2000s. The article also analyses the editorial policies of the Barcelona-based house at these two junctures and the historical role they played in the consolidation of a certain idea of independent publishing that continues to this day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article titled "Reasons to write and publish scientific articles" highlights the importance of publishing scientific articles for surgeons. Despite their clinical, teaching, and administrative obligations, scientific productivity enhances the reputation of surgical services and the possibility of obtaining economic resources. There are two types of reasons for publishing: altruistic and personal. Additionally, the article mentions the importance of knowing what and where to publish, as well as the quality of the research and manuscript writing. The impact factor and the h-index are also mentioned as measures of research quality. The editors of the Colombian Journal of Surgery have decided to initiate a new section to facilitate the research task for surgeons. [Extracted from the article]

Currently, a large number of predatory journals have proliferated. Their purpose is to obtain fraudulent profits by promising the rapid publication of scientific works, without fulfilling the services of quality review. These publishers have managed to copy the models of open access journals, which is why they are increasingly difficult to identify, coupled with the fact that many of them have opened spaces in the most important indexes of scientific journals, such as Medline, Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, Embase, among others. These publishers cheat not only the authors of the research they intend to publish but also the readers and general public with publications that have not been reviewed and evaluated properly by a system of peers or academic experts. Therefore, the aim of this work is to make known some of the most common practices of predatory journals, so that anyone interested in the editorial process, whether as an author, editor or reader, has the elements to identify these fraudulent journals, and this bad practice in the editorial process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "New changes, good winds" from the Colombian Journal of Surgery informs about the changes and improvements implemented in the journal. It highlights the increase in the number of articles submitted to the editorial process in the last 10 years, although the acceptance rate has also decreased. The work of peer reviewers and the use of a plagiarism detection program are mentioned. The journal will change its frequency and will be published every two months instead of every quarter. The journal's statistics and the recognition obtained from the World Association of Medical Editors are also mentioned. The incorporation of new members to the editorial team is mentioned, and positive expectations for the future are expressed. Additionally, a list of specialized surgery journals is presented. [Extracted from the article]

In this issue, the students of the Maestría en Ciencias de la Salud Program, who are generally doctors, publish their work in the format of architectural design. The architectural design, allows to demonstrate in a schematic way, the objective, basal state, maneuver and outcome of their investigations. In this issue of the Revista Médica del IMSS, architectural design is used explicitly for the first time in a scientific publication. This innovation was achieved thanks to the collaboration of the editors and students of the Maestría en Ciencias de la Salud Program. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze Revista Multicolor de los Sábados (1933-1934), an illustrated literary weekly supplement from the Argentinian newspaper Crítica, based on the hypothesis that in the supplement, texts established complex formative interactions with Crítica. The analysis of literature published in Revista Multicolor de los Sábados will focus on the way in which it was affected by the media in three aspects: the predominance of numerous design brands that acted as indicator signs, the collective nature of writing and the use of genres and themes taken from the newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analizes changes in material and textual form experimented by a group of texts published and read in three different edition contexts (Revista Multicolor de los Sábados, Critica's Cultural and Litterary Supplement, and two different editions of Antología de la Literatura Fantástica, compiled by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares y Silvina Ocampo, 1940 & 1965). At the same time, this work studies the way in which those changes affected the significance of the texts. We propose the hypothesis that a part or literary renovation promoted by Antología de la Literatura Fantástica has been tested in the thirties decade in the context of Critica's Litterary Supplement. The successive editions of those stories have involved a revission of both writing texts and the place that was given to fantasy and how this genre was presented to readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This interview forms part of a series of dialogues that Salud Colectiva has been holding with key editors in the field, with the purpose of examining the similar difficulties confronted by Latin American journals and the diverse ways the journals have faced these difficulties as a likely starting point for uncovering contextualized solutions. In this interview, carried out in 2015 in the Instituto de Salud Colectiva of the Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo speaks to us about the context in which the journal Ciência & Saúde Coletiva emerged, the political disputes existing within the collective health field, and the relevance of debate as a constitutive process of science itself. Additionally, Minayo analyzes both the importance of funding to the growth of a journal and the problems and difficulties in obtaining funds, which puts into evidence the lack of policy regarding scientific publishing in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is part of a series of interviews that seek to explore diverse editing and publication experiences and the similar difficulties Latin America journals face, in order to begin to encounter contextualized solutions that articulate previously isolated efforts. In this interview, carried out in July 2015 in the Instituto de Salud Colectiva [Institute of Collective Health] of the Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Carlos Augusto Monteiro speaks to us about funding, work processes, technological innovations, and establishing teams and roles. He analyzes the importance of Latin American journals as a platform for spreading research relevant to national agendas, and the connection between journal performance, the quality of graduate training programs and research quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order for the Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social to achieve a more privileged position among the different journals, in this editorial we enumerate a series of recommendations to ameliorate the practices of the different actors who participate in the scientific communication process of this journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A descriptive and cross sectional study of 96 masters in sciences from "Dr. Joaquín Castillo Duany" Teaching Provincial Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, was carried out from March to July, 2015, aimed at characterizing the interests, professional needs and organization and management process for the scientific work. Among the members of the series the highest interest when publishing was for the promotion from teaching category, while the lack of time and the excess of requirements by the editorials were the restrictive individual reasons for the publication; equally, the professionals assured that delay existed in the reception, approval and final publication of the research, and they recognized their lack of skills in the use of the scientific method. It was concluded that the low scientific production in the institution was multifactorial and the projection of new strategies was recommended that motivated the creation and its popularization, according to the present state policy agreed in Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) —conformed by the main scientific publishers— has warned about the increasing number of ethical problems in scientific publication and recent scandals seem to indicate that ethical misconduct is repetitive. Ethical problems in scientific publication arise when the person deviates from expected moral behavior. Misconduct may be explained, at least in part, because many postgraduate students and young researchers seem to understand that ethical problems are only related to plagiarism of complete works or duplication of publications, and because it seems to be a lack of knowledge of the ethical standards in scientific publication. However, there are many other aspects conducing to ethical problems. The objective of this paper is to discuss and spread the ethical position of the main scientific publishers and researchers with the aim of build a unified point of view. In this paper, seventeen tips for avoiding ethical problems in scientific publication are presented, explained and discussed. I hope that this work will be valuable for postgraduate students and young researchers and answers many common questions about ethics in scientific publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the meager attention given in the anesthesiology textbooks to the original contributions made by Latin American colleagues in this medical discipline, in addition to the factors that may have encouraged this unwonted neglect. One of the reasons could be that these innovations were published in journals with limited readership abroad, though other articles were published in well-known English journals, but were inappropriately referenced. The new parameters include the assessment of the new articles on the basis of "Evidence-based medicine" criteria requiring the prior submission of the protocol and making comparisons among various groups of against other subjects. Thus, success is only possible with a more stringent statistical analysis. A new criterion has emerged recently based on the number of bibliographic references to the title and the authors of the article that deterex mines the level of interest of readers in the particular publication. This interest is called the "impact factor" of the article among the group of readers. The probability of success and the dynamic conditions that may attract the attention of a larger number of readers, particularly in other countries, will depend on the quality of the papers published by the Revista Colombiana de Anestesiología (Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology) and the level of interest generated in the potential readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La Perinola (1632) is a satire of Pérez de Montalbán's Para todos. Quevedo's text raises several issues concerning his ambivalent relationships with the printing press. His attack aims not only at Montalbán's inadequate literary merit, but also the materiality of the printed book itself. Criticism is directed towards the agents --such as the ecclesiastics in charge of legally approving the text for publication and the book trader who financed the edition (Montalbán's own father, Alonso Pérez)-- who helped transform the manuscript into a printed volume with a potential to circulate widely. Quevedo parodies specific material aspects of Para todos, such as the printed marginalia and the display of typeface in the page of the «volumen regordete». Moreover, Quevedo openly disagrees with the patronage network that Montalbán cultivates, as well as with the editorial politics of Alonso Pérez, one of the most influential book traders in Madrid during the first part of the seventeenth-century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]