With help from FAME, they have also been able to develop training sessions for editors and research paper writers.
The training for the editors (students, teachers or general users) is imparted through manuals and tutorials with Creative Commons licensing, free for downloading.
Sidibé says areas needing immediate attention include computer equipment, Internet access, and training for the editors and reviewers.
The four groups agreed that three kinds of changes could make a difference: blind screening, peer review and more training for the student editors.
Susan Weinberg, senior vice president and editorial director at HarperCollins, said Mr. Jones built a reputation at the company for training younger editors, explaining how to handle agents, request blurbs from authors and plan paperback reprintings of previously published books, for example.
Another reason for the poor quality of mixed methods studies could be a lack of guidelines and training for journal reviewers and editors [ 21].
We concluded that the press needed two bodies: one to provide a full-blooded defence of media freedom (even more necessary today); and an ombudsman with statutory powers to order rights of reply and factual corrections with due prominence, adjudicate (or mediate) code of conduct disputes, and arrange legal and ethical training for journalists (and refresher courses for editors).
I wrote these 25 commandments as a panic response 15 or more years ago to an invitation to do some media training for a group of Elsevier editors.
Although training manuals such as from the Committee of Publication Ethics COPEE) or European Association of Science Editors EASEE) for editors and peer reviewers are available, they do not seem to enjoy widespread use [ 20, 42].
Given that this is the case, I recommend immediate anti-racism training for all involved including the editor-in-chief.
