The KevinMD blog this week included content about continuing problems related to scientific publication that are of  interest to our readers:

The first is Your Librarian Can Protect You Against Predatory Publishers, from fellow librarian Dina McKelvy, who discusses the problem of unscrupulous publishers and open access publishing scams. This issue was covered on our blog last year in Authors Beware…, but it remains a concern and is something authors should be aware of. If you have any questions about a particular journal or regarding open access, don’t hesitate to ask us, we are here to help!

A second problem topic from KevinMD is Planting Drug Industry-Funded Papers in Medical Journals, by Martha Rosenberg, regarding research published in medical journals that has been written by drug companies or authors receiving funding from them.

Finally, for those following reports about the forthcoming DSM-5 diagnostic manual of mental disorders or interested in mental health research funding, Vaughan Bell writes that the National Institute of Mental Health is moving away from DSM categories.