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16 September 2019

Quality and peer review survey results, created by Sense about Science and Elsevier, published at the start of international Peer Review Week Ten years on from the influential peer review survey of 2009, new findings show researchers have confidence in peer review, but strains on the system – including the increasing volume of research outputs and platforms to access research - are causing them to worry about quality and reliability. The survey found that researchers do not want to replace the peer review process, as 75 percent are satisfied with it (compared to 69 percent in 2009). Researchers want to improve and extend the system. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme American Chemical Society announces changes to Publications Division leadership The American Chemical Society (ACS) has named Dr. James Milne, senior vice president of the Journals Publishing Group, as acting president of the ACS Publications Division. Milne will take the reins from Dr. Brian Crawford, who had announced his plans to retire earlier this year. Milne will serve in this acting role while the Society continues its active recruitment to fill the executive position. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme OA in the open white paper surfaces challenges, opportunities, next steps for open access collecting A new white paper, 'OA in the Open: Community Needs and Perspectives,' from the Supporting OA Collections in the Open project documents a series of conversations with librarians with expertise in collections, acquisitions, scholarly communication, and administration, from diverse institutions, regarding their experiences and attitudes towards financially supporting open access (OA) content. The project was led by librarians at James Madison University (JMU), in partnership with the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Digital Science launches report focusing on falsifiability and reproducibility in scientific research Digital Science has launched a report focusing on falsifiability and reproducibility in scientific research. The report addresses three areas including appropriate documentation and sharing of research data, clear analysis and processes, and the sharing of code. Making Science Better: Reproducibility, Falsifiability and the Scientific Method looks at the current state of reproducibility in 2019, as well as the importance of falsifiability in the research process. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Research Square appoints Rachel Burley as President Research Square, a mission-driven business focused on supporting researchers with publication, has announced the appointment of Rachel Burley as President, effective September 16, 2019. Rachel Burley has spent more than eighteen years in senior roles in the publishing industry and joins Research Square from Springer Nature, where she was VP and Publishing Director for the BMC Group of journals before becoming VP Open Publishing Innovations in 2019. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest edition of Blogspeak now online The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Ann Michael (Ask The Chefs: Peer Review Quality); Jeffrey Brainard (Open-access mega journals lose momentum as the publishing model matures); Anne-Wil Harzing (Open Syllabus Explorer: evidencing research-based teaching?); and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (What Do Statements of Support for California Tell Us About the Big Deal?). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here.   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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