The document discusses writing and publishing support services in hospitals and how they can help authors succeed. It finds that 50% of hospitals studied in Brazil did not provide any services to help authors write and publish. While some one-time workshops are offered, permanent support services are needed. Such services, run through libraries or communications departments, could guide authors through the entire publishing process and increase hospitals' scientific output. The study concludes that further adoption of publishing and writing support services would benefit both authors and their institutions.

1. WRITING AND PUBLISHING
SUPPORT SERVICES IN HOSPITALS
A HELP FOR AUTHORS’ SUCCESS

2. WRITING AND PUBLISHING SUPPORT
SERVICES IN HOSPITALS: A HELP FOR
AUTHORS’ SUCCESS
Introduction: Science writing or communication is key for
researchers and scholars to advance their career and science
knowledge, approach theoretical and practical questions, face
international competition, and guarantee funding for studies
because of the assessment criteria established by funding
agencies. The ability to write well requires education and
practice. In Brazil and in many other countries, few actions
exist to educate or support authors in their writing process,
especially novice authors who did not receive any training on
writing and need to write a conference abstract, a full paper,
and a dissertation without previous training/knowledge how
to do so.

3. Introduction: Studies have reported that authors who receive
any kind of support for writing are more likely to publish their
findings successfully. Non-Anglophone authors have extra
barriers to publish because English, the international language
of science, rhetoric and structure are different from their
native language, and also due to the limited English skills that
a number of authors have and for them writing in English is an
arduous task.
WRITING AND PUBLISHING SUPPORT
SERVICES IN HOSPITALS: A HELP FOR
AUTHORS’ SUCCESS

4. WRITING AND PUBLISHING SUPPORT
SERVICES IN HOSPITALS: A HELP FOR
AUTHORS’ SUCCESS
Objective: To identify services in Brazilian public
and private hospitals that help authors to write and
publish their scientific findings in English and
Portuguese.

5. WRITING AND PUBLISHING SUPPORT SERVICES IN
HOSPITALS: A HELP FOR AUTHORS’ SUCCESS
José Belém de Oliveira Neto – Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein –
jose.bneto@einstein.br
Methodology: The homepage of 8 Brazilian public
and private hospitals was searched to identify
writing and publishing services offered to authors.
The following keywords in Brazilian Portuguese
were used publicação acadêmica, escrita
acadêmica and divulgação cientifica (scientific
publication, academic writing, science diffusion).

6. WRITING AND PUBLISHING SUPPORT
SERVICES IN HOSPITALS: A HELP FOR
AUTHORS’ SUCCESS
Results and discussion: The result showed that 50% of
hospitals did not provide any service to help authors to write
and/or publish. Although some specific actions such as
workshops are promoted from time to time by some
institutions, a permanent writing and publish to support
authors can help them during the publishing process. Clearly,
there is a need that more institutions adopt and promote
services to support authors who are willing to write and
publish their scientific findings. Such services can be offered
and administrated by libraries or communication services
within hospitals.

7. WRITING AND PUBLISHING SUPPORT
SERVICES IN HOSPITALS: A HELP FOR
AUTHORS’ SUCCESS
Conclusion: Publishing and writing services require
further attention and its adoption can bring positive
results both for authors who need to publish and
for hospitals that need to increase their scientific
output.

8. WRITING AND PUBLISHING SUPPORT
SERVICES IN HOSPITALS: A HELP FOR
AUTHORS’ SUCCESS
Conclusion: Publishing and writing services require
further attention and its adoption can bring positive
results both for authors who need to publish and
for hospitals that need to increase their scientific
output.

9. WRITING AND PUBLISHING SUPPORT
SERVICES IN HOSPITALS: A HELP FOR
AUTHORS’ SUCCESS
Obrigado / Thank you
José Belém de Oliveira Neto
Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
Sistema Einstein Integrado de Bibliotecas
e-mail: jose.bneto@einstein.br