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 PLOS One’s Joerg Heber to address OA publishing
PLOS One has announced that its editor-in-chief Joerg Heber will address, ‘Advancing Open Science at PLOS One’ followed by a panel discussion in the Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library, Room 360, on April 29, from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. The event will be streamed live via Zoom for those who wish to watch remotely in real-time.
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 Aries Systems offers author and reviewer with time saving transfer solutions
When Author manuscripts are rejected by a journal, they often must repeat the submission process on one or more subsequent journals. Reviewers face the issue of repeating reviews for the same content if selected again. Both contribute to a great loss of time and effort, and can leave Authors and Reviewers less willing to resubmit their work. Aries Systems offers seamless transfer of data between publications to solve this issue. Within Editorial Manager, Editors are able to reject and transfer to another journal with Author and/or Reviewer consent.
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 New York University receives $527,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
New York University has received a grant of $527,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project to help ensure the preservation of complex new forms of digital scholarship. In the collaborative project, ‘Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship,’ participating preservation service organisations will test the limits of their capabilities, using their existing tools or drawing on partnerships to preserve a series of increasingly complex works from participating scholarly publishers.
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 Knowledge Unlatched announces organisational changes
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for the sustainable funding of Open Access (OA) models, has announced the latest additions to its team. Maud Ruget and Wilson de Souza Paiao have joined the Berlin-based team and a fulltime sales position in North America has been added to help expand KU’s worldwide activities. In addition, a generational change in the advisory bodies is taking place, as well as changes reflecting the rapidly growing internationalisation of KU’s activities.
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 Latest edition of Blogspeak now online
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Sami Benchekroun and Michelle Kuepper (Challenges and Opportunities in Pre-published Research); Wang LingFeng (Self-organising peer review for preprints – A future paradigm for scholarly publishing); Brenda Wingfield & Bob Millar (How the open access model hurts academics in poorer countries); Nature Blog (Three-year trial shows support for recognising peer reviewers); and Roger C. Schonfeld (Open Access Publishing: New Evidence on Faculty Attitudes and Behaviours). 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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