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31 August 2018

Peer Review Week 2018 to begin September 10 September 10th marks the beginning of Peer Review Week 2018, the latest annual celebration of peer reviewing and its importance in maintaining standards of quality and integrity in research and scientific communication. The week's official activities include webinars and workshops devoted to this year's theme: Diversity in Peer Review. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Researchers at the University of Cambridge gain access to SpringerMaterials The University of Cambridge has joined other institutions around the world in providing its students and researchers with access to SpringerMaterials, a research solution published by Springer Nature for identifying materials and their corresponding properties. Access to SpringerMaterials will support researchers across the University from Materials Science and Metallurgy, Chemistry, and Physics departments, as well as engineering and other related fields. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme ProQuest News now discoverable via Ex Libris Primo According to a ProQuest 2017 survey, 87 percent of faculty members recommend news sources as a research tool for students - and 72 percent use it themselves. To address the teaching, learning and research needs of the academic community, ProQuest is making more of its digital news content discoverable via Ex Libris Primo, the discovery service that delivers access across the breadth of libraries' print, electronic and digital collections. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Viability of open access books remains uncertain, says Simba report Media and publishing intelligence firm Simba Information has released the latest edition of Open Access Book Publishing 2018-2022. The report found that despite multiple years of growth at more than 30 percent CAGR, total revenue generated from book processing charges (BPC) remains small, well under 0.5 percent of total book revenue, comparable in size to a single university press book publisher or a single open access journal publisher. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme MDPI and Qatar National Library establish OA agreement Academic open-access publisher Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has established an Open Access (OA) agreement with Qatar National Library (QNL). QNL is committed to supporting and helping Qatar authors publish OA at no cost. Through this national agreement, QNL will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by Qatar-based corresponding authors in MDPI journals. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Polish Society of Orthopaedic and Traumatology to preserve OA e-journals with Portico Digital preservation service Portico has announced that the Polish Society of Orthopaedic and Traumatology is preserving Open Access e-journals with Portico, ensuring that their content will be secure and available into the future. Established in November of 1928, the journal includes research articles that highlight the importance of better information in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, and rehabilitation. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Holiday Notice This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on September 3, 2018 on account of Labor day. We will resume our newsletter service on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the August 31st issue.   Brought to you by Scope e-Knowledge Center, a trusted global partner for digital content transformation solutions - Abstracting & Indexing (A&I), Knowledge Modeling (Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies), and Metadata Enrichment & Entity Extraction.   Do you have relevant news articles to share with us? Click here to send a press release   You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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