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 SAGE Publishing acquires Lean Library to bring library services into patrons’ workflow
Academic publisher SAGE Publishing has acquired technology start-up Lean Library and its associated products to promote the value of the academic library to patrons and bring library services directly into the patron’s workflow via their web browser. The Lean Library browser extension provides seamless, one-click access to all licensed library resources, both on and off campus, and offers up legal routes to discover open access full text.
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 Karger and Wellcome Trust join the Blockchain for Peer Review Initiative
Medical and scientific publishing company Karger Publishers has recently joined the Blockchain for Peer Review initiative. After Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis, Karger is the fourth reputable publisher to join the efforts towards making peer review more transparent, efficient and recognisable. In addition, Wellcome Trust has joined the Blockchain for Peer Review initiative as an advisor.
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 Publons announces winners of Publons Peer Review Awards
Publons, a Clarivate Analytics company and the peer review platform for researchers, has announced the winners of the Publons Peer Review Awards – highlighting global researchers for both the quality and quantity of their peer reviews. The awards honour the best in class for peer review over the past year and are broken down into the following categories: top 1 percent of reviewers in their field; top quality reviewers; top reviewers for top journals; top-handling editors.
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 American Psychological Association partners with Kudos to accelerate impact of researchers’ published work
Kudos, a service for managing dissemination of research publications, has announced a partnership with theAmerican Psychological Association (APA), a scientific and professional organisation representing psychology in the US. APA has partnered with Kudos to expand its support for APA book and journal authors as they share their work, grow audiences, and accelerate impact.
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 Gale launches new research environment – Digital Scholar Lab
Gale, a Cengage company, has announced the launch of a new cloud-based research environment, Digital Scholar Lab. Digital Scholar Lab allows students and researchers to apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR) from Gale Primary Sources archives in a single research platform. The new research environment removes key barriers to entry into digital scholarship, enabling users at any level to perform textual analysis on large corpora of historical texts, streamlining the workflow process to help generate new research insights.
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 BrainFacts.org names Richard Wingate as new Editor-in-Chief
Richard Wingate, a principal investigator at the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Reader and head of anatomy at King’s College London, has been named as BrainFacts.org’s new editor-in-chief. BrainFacts.org, the source for trusted and authoritative information about the progress and promise of brain research, is a public information initiative of The Kavli Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, andSociety for Neuroscience (SfN).
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