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      Promotion and Reporting of Research from Resource-Limited Settings

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          Driven by global burden of disease and inequalities in health care, research activities in resource-poor settings have radically increased. However, a corresponding increase in reporting of research from these settings has not been observed. This article critically explores the importance of promoting and reporting of health research from resource-poor settings, current trends, and practices, and discusses the key challenges faced by researchers from such settings. These challenges include changing face of open-access (OA) and online publishing, the threat of predatory OA journals, authorship and international partnership ethics, attitudinal problems hindering research reporting, and a lack of alternative publishing spaces. A combined, decisive effort is needed to bridge the gap between research activity and reporting in resource-poor settings.

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          Scientific publishing in developing countries: Challenges for the future

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            North and South: bridging the information gap.

            Information exchange is critical for development of health systems. The information needs of less-developed countries are especially challenging, but many factors inhibit free flow of knowledge. There is much talk about how technical fixes--such as the internet--might fill this information gap. Yet few attempts have been made to ask clinical investigators who work in resource-poor regions for their views on these difficulties and the possible solutions. The messages reported here, from a survey of Lancet editorial advisors, suggest that information, research, and publication capacities are intimately linked. Investigators, publishers, editors, and editorial organisations all have important parts to play in solving this global information poverty.
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              Medical journals: evidence of bias against the diseases of poverty.

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                Journal
                Infect Dis (Auckl)
                Infect Dis (Auckl)
                Infectious Diseases: Research and Treatment
                Infectious Diseases
                Libertas Academica
                1178-6337
                2015
                06 September 2015
                : 8
                : 25-29
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Global Public Health, Migration & Ethics Research Group, Faculty of Medical Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
                [2 ]Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK.
                [3 ]Institute for Research & Development, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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                idrt-8-2015-025
                10.4137/IDRT.S16195
                4562664
                26396528
                88ce3435-3f2a-491a-882f-a279e5d7a12d
                © 2015 the author(s), publisher and licensee Libertas Academica Ltd.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 License.

                History
                : 30 June 2015
                : 09 August 2015
                : 14 August 2015
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                low and middle income countries,resource-poor settings,research reporting,research promotion,publication divide,global health,public health

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