The European Medical Writers Association ( EMWA ) was established in 1992 in Brussels, Belgium, as a professional organisation for European medical writers , whether working freelance or in-house at pharmaceutical companies or medical communications companies. Between 1992 and 1998, EMWA was the European chapter of the American Medical Writers Association .
7-449: EMWA now has over 800 members from 27 countries, and includes academics and professionals working in-house or freelance for pharmaceutical and medical communications companies, research institutes and in the field of scientific journalism. EMWA has an extensive professional development programme, and runs workshops and other educational and social events at bi-annual conferences, one in Spring and
14-530: A specialist typesetting and printing company, W.S. Maney & Son Ltd, which had been founded in Leeds in 1900. Maney's transition from printing to publishing was based on a series of long-standing relationships with learned societies and academic bodies. The oldest such partner was the English Goethe Society , with which Maney had worked since 1947. Organisations who started publishing agreements later included
21-514: The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining , for whom Maney published journals and books from 2001. In 2007, Maney Publishing (USA) was incorporated to attract work from North American bodies. Maney was acquired by Taylor & Francis (itself a part of Informa ) in 2015 and its journals are now available on the Taylor & Francis Online website. This article about a publishing company
28-584: The humanities , and health science . Maney published extensively for learned societies, universities, and professional bodies. As of 2014 , Maney published over 150 journals. The company offered an open access option (MORE OpenChoice) to all authors. The company had offices in Leeds and London in the United Kingdom, and in Boston and Philadelphia in the United States. Maney Publishing was formed in 1997, from
35-409: The data and that publications do not contain unjustified claims. Secondary publications and post-hoc analyses must be clearly identified as such. Medical writers should also draw atten tion to any limitations of the study in the discussion section. [...] If a CER writer is aware of good quality evidence that contradicts a point being made in a review, or in the discussion section of a primary publication,
42-666: The other in Autumn, both in European locations. EMWA also publishes a journal, The Write Stuff , four times a year. In 2012, the journal changed its name to Medical Writing and began being published by Maney Publishing . Since the beginning of 2016, the journal is now once again self-published and printed by Hastings; feature articles are now open access. The Association pays special attention to ethical issues, to avoid unjustified interpretation of results of medical research, e.g. "The writer should also ensure that conclusions are fully supported by
49-460: The writer should attempt to ensure that this research is cited." This article about a medical organization or association is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Maney Publishing Maney Publishing was an independent academic publishing company that was taken over by Taylor & Francis in 2015. Maney Publishing specialised in peer-reviewed academic journals in materials science and engineering ,
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