Transforming the peer review system

Peer-review system has long been at the center of a debate within the research community and publishers.
At this regard, on the last issue of Research Information was published an interview to Janne-Youmas Seppanen, one of the founder and managing director of the project Peerage of Science.

How it works?

1. Authors submit manuscript to Peerage of Science and they decide the deadlines of all the steps of the process;

2. Once submitted, any qualified non affiliated peer can engage to review the manuscript;

3. The peer review process is available to all subscribing journals;

4. Authors may accept a direct publishing offer from subscribing journal or choose to export the peer reviews to any journal of their choice.



If you want to read the interview: http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=418

For further information about Peerage of Science: http://www.peerageofscience.org/

Look inside! (April 11, 2013)

Today we received some new 2013 issues in the library.

I would like to suggest these 3 articles:

• DUMOULIN, R. GAUZENTE, C. The solid body guitar in the digital era: how persistent myths influence musician's  evaluation criteria. "International journal of arts amangement" 2(2013): 4-17
• PAZIENZA, A. La fibula ad arco di Piazza al Serchio e i primi ritrovamenti di epoca longobarda a Lucca (secolo XIX). "Archeologia medievale" (2012): 355-360
• CAUZ, J. Encyclopaedia Britannica's president on killing off a 244-year-old product. "Harvard business review" 3(2013): 39-42

E-books on SciELO

SciELO, the Brasilian indexer and publisher of Open Access online journals, announces the new platform SciELO Books (http://books.scielo.org/en).
SciELO Books collects quality peer-reviewed and commercial e-books in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Public Health from selected university presses and other publishers in Brazil.

Currently there are over 300 ebooks available for download and this number is expected to grow by more than 500 titles per year. The ebooks are being made available in ePub and PDF formats with the option to download the whole ebook or just individual PDF chapters.

Although books are in portuguese, we want to give visibility to this vast and important project hoping that it can provide an example for all countries.

Free access to Taylor & Francis journals

For the month of April will be possible to access for free to over 300 Taylor & Francis journals in:

• Physics
• Engeneering and technology
• Computer science
• Mathematics and statistics

Palgrave initiative "Access all areas"

From April 1-30, 2013 Palgrave Macmillan offers free access to his complete journal collection.
You can browse journals by subject at the following link:
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pal/jnlsubject.html#isit

Good read!

spanning the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business - See more at: http://www.palgrave.com/accessallareas/#sthash.TbrMUn5N.dpuf

From April 1-30, 2013 we are offering free online access to our complete portfolio of journals spanning the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business. - See more at: http://www.palgrave.com/accessallareas/#sthash.TbrMUn5N.dpuf

From April 1-30, 2013 we are offering free online access to our complete portfolio of journals spanning the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business. - See more at: http://www.palgrave.com/accessallareas/#sthash.TbrMUn5N.dpuf

From April 1-30, 2013 we are offering free online access to our complete portfolio of journals spanning the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Business. - See more at: http://www.palgrave.com/accessallareas/#sthash.TbrMUn5N.dpuf

New portal for Italian research

Is online the new website (https://www.researchitaly.it/conoscere/) dedicated to the Italian research.

The portal gathers information about funding, opportunities and research projects. It is addressed to a wide audience, from researchers to companies, even to citizens interested to learn more about the research activities of the Country.

Women's day

In occasion of the International Women's Day, we want share with you this post from Europeana dedicated to Marie Curie.



Enjoy it!