JAMA Psychiatry lifts embargo early on suicide study after New York Times breaks it
I find out about embargo breaks all sorts of ways. Today, I found out about one on Twitter.
At 6:05 p.m. Eastern today, Bloomberg’s Elizabeth Lopatto tweeted about a story in the New York Times on a study in JAMA Psychiatry that was embargoed until tomorrow at 4 p.m. Eastern.
It seemed that the Times had broken an embargo. So I asked JAMA — which recently changed the embargo times for its newly renamed Archives journals — whether this was a break. The Times would be taking the story down shortly, JAMA said, so the embargo would hold.
I told JAMA I found it surprising Read the rest of this entry »
Journal of Urology takes a few steps toward the Embargo Watch Honor Roll
In what seems like a good way to start the new year, I’ve just learned that the Journal of Urology has moved away — somewhat, anyway — from its version of a “freely available but embargoed” policy.
In October, I noted that many of the journal’s advance online publications included the following statement:
All articles printed in The Journal of Urology® are embargoed until 3 PM ET the day they are published as corrected proofs online. Studies cannot be publicized as accepted manuscripts or uncorrected proofs.
Retraction Watch readers may recall that the journal’s own executive editor and director of publications acknowledged that this policy was one for which the “rationale trumps logic.” And now the journal has made some changes. Accepted manuscripts posted on the journal’s site now include this statement instead of the one above: Read the rest of this entry »
JAMA to change Archives embargo schedule when names change in January
JAMA’s Archives journals will have a new embargo schedule when their names change next month.
Embargoes for the Archives journals — which as of January 1 will be known as JAMA (specialty), eg JAMA Pediatrics, instead of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine — have lifted for years on Mondays at 3 p.m. Central Time. Starting on January 1, the embargoes for each of three titles will lift on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, also at 3 p.m. Central. Read the rest of this entry »
Canada’s QMI Agency slapped with six-month ban after breaking embargo
The QMI Agency, publisher of the Sun newspapers across Canada, has earned a six-month ban from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) after breaking an embargo last week.
Crystal Mohr, CIHI’s media coordinator, tells Embargo Watch it was the QMI Agency that broke the embargo. She sent this message to her press list Thursday: Read the rest of this entry »
How I got two embargoes lifted early: Cardiology journals do the right thing
Much of the time, when I hear about embargoes lifting early, I work backward, asking journals what happened, or trying to figure it out on my own when they can’t or won’t say. (Recently, I didn’t have to ask, because my own group had broken the embargo, accidentally.)
But last week, while working on a story, the early lifts came at my request. It’s the story of journals doing the right thing.
On Tuesday, November 27, at 12:51 p.m. Eastern, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) sent out this message: Read the rest of this entry »
Three’s a charm? AHA breaks its own embargo again, this time on Twitter
Be still, my tweeting heart.
The American Heart Association just sent this message to its press list:
EMBARGOED LIFTED ON AHA SCIENTIFIC STATEMENT FOR NOV. 15, 2012
TO: Writers, editors and broadcasters
FROM: American Heart Association Communications, Dallas
AHA Media Contacts
*** Embargoed is lifted on the following materials for Thurs., Nov. 15, 2012 *** American Heart Association Scientific Statement
The Measurement and Interpretation of the Ankle-Brachial Index: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association
The embargo, originally scheduled for 4 p.m. Eastern, appears to have been broken by a tweet from….the AHA: Read the rest of this entry »
Well, it’s happened: Reuters Health accidentally breaks JCO embargo
After more than two-and-a-half years of Embargo Watch, it was bound to happen.
Yesterday, the team I lead at Reuters Health unintentionally broke the embargo on a study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), in a story titled “Early end-of-life talks tied to less aggressive care.” We set to the story to post at the JCO’s regular embargo time of 4 p.m. Eastern on Monday, but the study was actually embargoed until 4 p.m. today because of the Veteran’s Day holiday in the U.S.
ASCO, which publishes the JCO, sent this to reporters about an hour ago: Read the rest of this entry »
