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Digital Science and ÜberResearch to sponsor ORCID’s next Outreach Meeting: Research Without Borders
Digital Science and ÜberResearch will be sponsoring ORCID’s next Outreach Meeting. The theme of the meeting is, ‘Research Without Borders.’ The event is scheduled for October 5, 2016, at the headquarters of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20005, United States. Registration is free, but places are limited.
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Emerald appoints Ernst Kallus as new Technology & Programme Director
Emerald Group Publishing has announced the appointment of Ernst Kallus as its Technology & Programme Director. Kallus was formerly Digital Media Director at Oxford University Press and, most recently, Director of Platform Strategy at Pearson. Ernst will commence his role with Emerald on September 26, 2016.
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Rockefeller University Press revives journal websites
The Rockefeller University Press (RUP) has shared the new look of The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), The Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), and The Journal of General Physiology (JGP) with the Society for Scholarly Publishing community. With greater emphasis on enhancing readability on all devices, the new design features a two-column layout that allows for more white space and larger text that is responsive to fit desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone browser windows.
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Russian medical publisher Media Sphera partners with Publons to recognise reviewers
Media Sphera, the leading Russian publisher of peer-reviewed medical journals, has partnered with Publons to help reviewers track, verify and showcase their peer review efforts. In a true show of innovation, Media Sphera has also developed an open-source plugin so other journals, using the Open Journal System (OJS) editorial management system, can easily integrate with Publons to give reviewers the credit they deserve.
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MSU scientist Hikmet Budak to serve on editorial board of open-access scientific journal – Scientific Reports
Hikmet Budak, Montana State University’s first Montana Plant Sciences Endowed Chair, has been invited to serve on the editorial board of Scientific Reports, an online open-access journal from the publishers of Nature. A leading geneticist and genomicist, Budak’s editorial duties will be in Scientific Reports’ Genetics and Genomics section, where he will manage the peer review process.
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Hindawi and Editage partner to provide English language editing services
Hindawi and Editage have announced a new partnership that will provide English-language editing to authors wishing to submit to Hindawi publications. This partnership will result in Editage’s services being integrated into Hindawi’s submission process and provide a 10% discount to Hindawi authors. According to Craig Raybould, Chief Process Engineer of Hindawi, these pre-submission manuscript preparation services will help authors, particularly those for whom English is not their first language.
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Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Duncan Green (How academics and NGOs can work together to influence policy: insights from the InterAction report); Holly Else (Journal tries ‘results-free’ peer review); Jennifer Byrne (Reviewing the review); Ashley Snelgrove (How and Why to Get Hooked on Library Podcasts); Tom Culley (Guest Post: Publons’ Tom Culley – Are We Doing Enough for Editors?); Angela Cochran (Is More Recognition the Key to Peer Review Success?);and Elizabeth Gadd and Denise Troll Covey (What it means to be Green: exploring publishers’ changing approaches to Green open access). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.
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