charles shepherd
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PACE trial commentaries in the Journal of Health Psychology to be made open access - thanks to the MEA!
Following an exchange of correspondence with David Marks, editor of the Journal of Health Psychology, it has been agreed that ALL of the JHP commentaries on the PACE trial will be made Open Access at no charge to the authors
Correspondence below
Dr Charles Shepherd
Hon Medical Adviser, MEA
March 28th 2017
Dear Charles,
Thank you for your email and your helpful suggestion.
I am pleased to inform you that all PACE Trial Commentary papers will be on Open Access at no charge to the authors.
This generous and insightful decision on the part of SAGE Publications will greatly facilitate the open discussion and debate of the PACE Trial that we are conducting in JHP.
Please kindly inform interested parties in your network.
With best wishes,
David Marks
David F Marks PhD
Editor
Journal of Health Psychology
Health Psychology Open
March 23rd 2017
Dear David
As the JHP PACE trial commentaries are now starting to appear on-line there is, not surprisingly, a great deal of interest from people with ME/CFS in seeing what the commentators have to say
Unfortunately, as the full content is not open access, all people can read are the 100 word abstracts
I'm sure we both agree that the numerous controversies surrounding the PACE trial are a very important issue affecting people with ME/CFS, clinicians and researchers, and that it would be really helpful if there could be open access to the complete commentaries
The MEA has recently paid for open access to the Wilshire et al PACE trial data re-analysis paper:
http://www.meassociation.org. uk/2017/03/thanks-to-the-mea- you-can-now-read-the-whole- independent-re-analysis-of- the-pace-trial-recovery-paper- 22-march-2017/
But this is not something that we want to repeat - when our main duty as a small medical charity is to use our very limited financial resources to advise and support people with this illness and to fund much needed biomedical medical research into ME/CFS
So I'm basically asking if there is some way in which the full commentaries could be made open access - without any great expense being involved
Or, in the case of the one that I prepared with my MEA hat on, could the charity publish this on our website and in our magazine in view of the fact that the preparation involved quite a lot of work and this was done without any fee being paid
Kind regards
Charles Shepherd
Following an exchange of correspondence with David Marks, editor of the Journal of Health Psychology, it has been agreed that ALL of the JHP commentaries on the PACE trial will be made Open Access at no charge to the authors
Correspondence below
Dr Charles Shepherd
Hon Medical Adviser, MEA
March 28th 2017
Dear Charles,
Thank you for your email and your helpful suggestion.
I am pleased to inform you that all PACE Trial Commentary papers will be on Open Access at no charge to the authors.
This generous and insightful decision on the part of SAGE Publications will greatly facilitate the open discussion and debate of the PACE Trial that we are conducting in JHP.
Please kindly inform interested parties in your network.
With best wishes,
David Marks
David F Marks PhD
Editor
Journal of Health Psychology
Health Psychology Open
March 23rd 2017
Dear David
As the JHP PACE trial commentaries are now starting to appear on-line there is, not surprisingly, a great deal of interest from people with ME/CFS in seeing what the commentators have to say
Unfortunately, as the full content is not open access, all people can read are the 100 word abstracts
I'm sure we both agree that the numerous controversies surrounding the PACE trial are a very important issue affecting people with ME/CFS, clinicians and researchers, and that it would be really helpful if there could be open access to the complete commentaries
The MEA has recently paid for open access to the Wilshire et al PACE trial data re-analysis paper:
http://www.meassociation.org. uk/2017/03/thanks-to-the-mea- you-can-now-read-the-whole- independent-re-analysis-of- the-pace-trial-recovery-paper- 22-march-2017/
But this is not something that we want to repeat - when our main duty as a small medical charity is to use our very limited financial resources to advise and support people with this illness and to fund much needed biomedical medical research into ME/CFS
So I'm basically asking if there is some way in which the full commentaries could be made open access - without any great expense being involved
Or, in the case of the one that I prepared with my MEA hat on, could the charity publish this on our website and in our magazine in view of the fact that the preparation involved quite a lot of work and this was done without any fee being paid
Kind regards
Charles Shepherd