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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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Open research

Open Research Quarterly Update­­­­ – September 2021

Issue 3: Sept 2021 Welcome to the Sept 2021 Issue Editorial Hello, and welcome to the September issue of the Open Research Quarterly Update (Digest). Last month’s key sector news was the release of the new UKRI open access policy. We welcome this as a significant driver in the delivery of open access – however, […]

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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 […]