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 Association of Arab Universities and Elsevier in deal to host Arab journals on Digital Commons
The Association of Arab Universities and Elsevier, the information analytics business specialising in science and health, have reached an agreement to co-create the Arab Journals Platform, an open electronic network of scholarly journals that will help raise awareness of leading research carried out in the Arab world. The new network will launch in 2019 and will be hosted, managed and published on Digital Commons, Elsevier’s professional grade open publishing platform.
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 Emerald acquires digital learning and performance support company, Mind Tools
Emerald Group, the global provider of research and learning resources, has announced the successful acquisition of Mind Tools, the digital learning and performance support company. This acquisition responds to a growing need for tools that help today’s worker learn quickly, adapt to diverse situations and maintain a high level of performance.
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 Hindawi and Publons partner to improve peer review process
Open access publisher Hindawi and Publons, a peer review platform and part of the Web of Science Group, have announced a new partnership to improve peer review processes. Hindawi has integrated the new reviewer search service, Publons Reviewer Connect, with their peer review management systems, includingreview.hindawi.com, their recently launched open source peer review system.
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 eLife in collaboration with Coko launches first release of Libero Reviewer
eLife, in collaboration with the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), has launched the first release of Libero Reviewer, an open-source application that will support the organisation’s unique editorial process from submission to acceptance. The first release takes the form of a wizard that guides an author through submitting their work for initial assessment by eLife’s board of Senior Editors and integrates with the journal’s existing peer-review software, eJournalPress (eJPress).
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 King’s College London to use Altmetric Explorer for Institutions in REF2021 preparations
Data science company Altmetric has announced that King’s College London will use Altmetric Explorer for Institutions to help prepare the REF2021 submission. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the UK’s system for assessing the excellence of research in higher education institutions. Altmetric provides evidence of the attention research has received and offers a potential early indication of impact.
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