Peer Review Week
Peer Review Week is scheduled for September 10-15, 2018. This year’s theme is Diversity in Peer Review. The Scholarly Kitchen reminded us of this […]
Peer Review Transparency
Emerging from a project run by the Amherst College Press and the MIT Press, a recent report examines the proposal for a set of agreed definitions […]
Dual Conferences in Portugal Come September
The 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) is scheduled for September 10-13, 2018 at the University of Porto, in […]
Access Innovations Completes Thesaurus and Indexing Project for Hindawi Limited
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce that, using their award-winning Data Harmony semantic enrichment software, the recent completion of a thesaurus and indexing […]
Peer Review in Practice
Establishing transparency for each author’s role in a research study is one of the recommendations that recently appeared in a report in the Proceedings of the National […]
Peer Review Under Review
Discussions around peer review and whether it is subjective or objective continues to takes place. The author reminds us that at the end of […]
Shining the Light on Peer Review
Peer review is a vital step in scientific publishing. Unfortunately it is often not formally taught. This interesting news came to us from EurekAlert! in […]
Collaboration Seeks to Improve Research
A group of not-for-profit scientific membership societies have announced the launch of the Scientific Society Publisher Alliance (SSPA). This is an initiative focused on […]
Gender Bias in Scientific Publishing
Scientists strive to be objective in their peer review of grant applications and manuscript submissions. However, the threat to objectivity comes from all humans […]