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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences joins Publications Router

The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America is now supplying articles from its flagship journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), to Jisc’s Publications Router service for onward distribution to UK institutional repositories. Full-text articles reach repositories faster In 2021, for an […]

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This week is ‘Peer Review Week’ – a time to ‘celebrate’ that aspect of scientific publishing that academia loves to hate.

This guest blog post is written by Dr Alexandra Freeman, Director, Octopus Publishing Community Interest Company (CIC) On the one hand peer review is lauded as the ‘gold standard’ mark of quality – in theory, work that has been thoroughly read and checked by a group of several independent experts in the field should be […]

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New podcast series incoming: Ready to talk research?

Our new podcast series Research Talk has launched. Alongside experts in the field, we will explore where Jisc are uniquely placed to act in the continued development of technology, digital and data approaches, to support the research and innovation sector to meet its priorities. The series draws on the critical themes from our Research and […]