Researching Gender Bias in Peer Review; Indexing an Info Systems Journal

The Scholarly Kitchen looks at gender bias in scholarly publishing and peer review. And an IGI Global journal is newly indexed by Elsevier's Compendex. The post Researching Gender Bias in Peer Review; Indexing an Info Systems Journal appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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Academic Publishers Hit with Antitrust Suit over Peer Review

The suit accuses six major publishers of establishing a cartel through its international trade association, STM, and using the peer review process to "unlawfully divert billions of taxpayer dollars every year from science to the Publisher Defendants.” Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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AAP Announces 2024 Hawkins, PROSE Award Winners

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London Book Fair Plans: Scholarly and Rights Conferences

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Transition to Open Access: Tackling Complexity and Building Trust

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2022: A 'Seismic Transformation' in Scholarly Publishing

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ALPSP launches careers hub for scholarly publishing community

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Experts weigh in on Facebook’s new Oversight Board

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The Guardian view on academic publishing: disastrous capitalism | Editorial

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Vida report: 'Dangerous lens' of male bias remains in literary criticism

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T&F and CUP join Springer Nature blockchain pilot

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Researching Gender Bias in Peer Review; Indexing an Info Systems Journal

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Clarivate Analytics buys Publons

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Calling the question  Conference organisers, prize judges, pretty much anyone who has a role in deciding who gets to be heard: don’t they notice the roll call of mainly white men? Continue reading at The Bookseller

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