Academia depends on the publishing world to disseminate scholarly work, but the current model is facing significant challenges. This week we talk with Dr. John Chenault, PhD, MA, MSLS, Associate Professor, University of Louisville School of Medicine. Dr. Chenault is a former medical librarian, and we discuss both long-standing and emerging issues in biomedical research publishing. Dr. Chenault describes how research outcomes can be erroneous or deliberately falsified, and he suggests that more transparency—rather than our current system of peer review—will be needed to address emerging issues in plagiarism and post-production fabrication. Learn more about the work that Dr. Chenault describes by Freedman and the Global Biological Standards Institute as well as the Retraction Watch and PubPeer resources to help faculty evaluate published literature.
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