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Peer-review guide available in Chinese
16 May 2013
The charitable trust Sense about Science has released a Chinese version of its guide to peer review. The aim is to help the public make sense of research claims
Rare atlases go online
16 May 2013
The University of Bristol in the UK has made a collection of rare atlases dating from 1574 to the 1970s available online for the first time
New UNESCO policy embraces open access
16 May 2013
X-ray technique should help historians uncover lost information
16 May 2013
ProQuest completes EBL acquisition
14 May 2013
Peerage of Science signs up with ORCID
8 May 2013
De Gruyter joins CLOCKSS
8 May 2013
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Are 'predatory' publishers an American export?
16 May 2013
So-called 'predatory' publishers can be a thorn in the side for advocates of gold open access but does the stereotype of such publishers present a true picture? Rob Virkar-Yates investigates
Designing researcher-centric library services
12 May 2013
Roger Schonfeld of Ithaka and Ben Showers of Jisc report on a study of how libraries can better support chemists and other researchers
Research suggests importance of elite journals is declining
29 April 2013
The proportion of the top papers that appear in elite journals has fallen since the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to a new study by researchers from Canada and Estonia
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