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Welcome to the AuthorAID site

By Barbara Gastel | Nov 02, 2007

Greetings! Welcome to the AuthorAID @ INASP blog, established to assist researchers in developing countries to publish and otherwise communicate their work.

As you may know, AuthorAID @ INASP is a new project of the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications. It has 3 main components:

  • mentoring by highly published scientists and professional editors
  • workshops on scientific writing and related subjects
  • online content on scientific communication, largely through this blog

As your blogger, let me introduce myself. My name is Barbara Gastel. My background is in medicine, and I teach scientific writing at Texas A&M University, in the United States. I also work internationally to help researchers to write about their work.

For more information about me, please see the What is AuthorAID? section of this Web site. Feel free to ask questions about us by using the Comments feature on this site.

Speaking of which: We want to hear from you, so we can serve you best. So, using the Comments feature, please send us your comments, suggestions, and questions. Our current plan is for this blog to focus largely on the following topics:

  • how to write scientific papers
  • how to publish academic papers in journals
  • how to write about science effectively in English

Would information on these topics help you? Are there other topics you’d like me to write about? What other thoughts do you have in this regard? I look forward to hearing from you and to writing to you often.

Barbara Gastel, MD, MPH
Knowledge Community Editor
AuthorAID @ INASP

 

on January 7, 2008 Olaosebikan MD said

Posted by anon at Apr 14, 2008 08:59 AM
This is Great site. It will be of immense help to the young researchers especially those from developing countries.

on January 7, 2008 Gerald Mkoji said

Posted by anon at Apr 14, 2008 09:00 AM
A great initiative that will contribute immensely in bringing scientific writing skills of researchers in developing countries to a new level

on January 7, 2008 Saad El-Din Hussein said

Posted by anon at Apr 14, 2008 09:01 AM
I think this is a great idea that will hopefully help a lot of researchers who are looking for someone to guide them through the way to publishing there work, which is in most cases very useful, and which mostly passes unnoticed and unknown.

on January 8, 2008 Rodrigo Gramajo Rodriguez said

Posted by anon at Apr 14, 2008 09:01 AM
This will be a great help to young reseachers to benfit of the large experience from seniors researchers through the world. Hopefully this will result in the publication of papers from developing countries young researchers.

on January 9, 2008 Nicolas Jaramillo-O said

Posted by anon at Apr 14, 2008 09:02 AM
I am not exactly a younger researcher at beginning of his scientific career. I am 48 years old, and I am an associate professor and researcher at the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, who finished his doctoral degree seven years ago. But I am a very slowly writer and as result I have a short CV. Because I wish to increase significantly my production, I think the AuthorAID project is a great idea that can help to attain this objective.

on January 14, 2008 Ejaz Qadeer said

Posted by anon at Apr 14, 2008 09:02 AM
It was a much needed plateform.In developing countries lot of research work is being done which go unoticed because the researchers usuly do not have that guidence and the capcity to pulish.The objectives are exactly we are in need of.

on January 18, 2008 BELLO Ibrahim said

Posted by anon at Apr 14, 2008 09:02 AM
This is an excellent iniative aimed at removing major obstacles affecting young and promising researchers most especially those living in resource poor settings getting their work published. If the effort is sustained will lead to a major breakthrough in understanding the real issues affecting those part of the world through well conducted published research.