Plain-language summaries: Results of the 2016 eLife digest reader survey

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-03-22

Summary:

"eLife has been producing plain-language summaries – known as eLife digests – for research articles since the journal launched in 2012. The digests are written to explain the background and significance of the research clearly to people outside the field, including other scientists and members of the general public.

Who reads eLife digests? Is there anything we can do to improve them? To help us answer these questions we carried out a survey of our readers in late 2016. We advertised the survey on our website and social media over a six-week period and received 313 responses from readers of eLife digests. As part of our "Plain-language summaries of research" series we now present the results of the survey in detail below...."

Link:

https://elifesciences.org/elife-news/plain-language-summaries-elife-survey

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Date tagged:

03/22/2017, 17:34

Date published:

03/22/2017, 13:34