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Study Probes Evolution of Peer Review in Academic Publishing
Phys.org
Ben Merriman has experienced all sides of academic publishing as an author, journal editor and reviewer. That experience, coupled with his research in administrative structures' role in resolving policy conflicts, led the University of Kansas assistant professor public affairs & administration to explore the history of peer review in social sciences in a study for The American Sociologist.
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Promoting Open Science in COVID-19 Times
Your Say
Globally, COVID-19 has created an urgency to adopt Open Science. A great example of this recent emphasis is uploading the Open Access database for the initial genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 by the concerned researchers. This access to data sharing enabled the researchers working on this across the globe to draw insights about the new COVID-19 variants.
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Copyright Concerns Weighing on Digital Media Platforms
American Action Forum
Copyright infringement tensions between digital “new media” platforms and traditional media are at an all-time high.
Pressure from copyright holders combined with aggressive infringement-flagging algorithms and significant penalties under current regulations push platforms to take down content — often before infringement has been proven.
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University Of Edinburgh to Archive Health Websites
India Education Diary
The project will preserve 10,000 official and unofficial websites relating to health to create available to researchers and the public.
The initiative called ‘The Archive of Tomorrow: Health Information and Misinformation in the U.K. Web Archive’ has been launched by the National Library of Scotland and is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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New Types of Digital Archives on Rise to Help Broaden Access
The Korea Herald
Cho Myung-dae, CEO of Linked Data Center, demonstrated how a digital archive works by taking the Korean War records as an example. By clicking on the keyword, a number of search results instantly pop up in a well-arranged list of related subcategories such as specific battles, locations and people. This way, users don’t have to dig through piles of data without having a clue what they will get in the end.
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Capella Debuts Open-Access Program for SAR Data
Via Satellite
Capella Space has launched its Open Data Program to make its Synthetic Aperture Radar data publicly accessible, the company announced.
This program makes SAR data — which can see through clouds and darkness — available to researchers, nonprofits, developers and disaster response organizations.
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The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books
The New Yorker
Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and audiobooks — i.e., “digital content.” In New York, Potash met with two clients: the New York Public Library and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. By then, Potash had already heard what he described to me recently as “heart-wrenching stories” from colleagues in China, about neighborhoods that were shut down owing to the coronavirus.
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