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Elsevier tests new peer-review approach
Elsevier is piloting a new peer-review programme for its Chemical Physics Letters journal. With PeerChoice, reviewers can choose which articles they would like to review. By choosing articles matching their expertise and interest, the effi ciency and effectiveness of the peer-review process should be increased, believes the publisher. The PeerChoice pilot, which started in June, will initially run for three months.
The software enables reviewers to select articles that match their academic competencies and current interests, while committing to a timely review.
Public data released in open linked data format
The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton has become the UK’s fi rst university department to release all its public data in open linked data format for public reuse.
This includes data about research papers in the EPrints archive, as well as people in the school, research groups, teaching modules, seminars and
events, buildings and rooms. ‘The University of
Southampton has pioneered some of the most important developments in the semantic web and open access in recent years,’ said Nigel Shadbolt, a professor in the ECS. ‘This announcement will
ensure more data is released in the right format to enable innovative uses of the information.’
All public (RDF) data from
rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk and eprints.
ecs.soton.ac.uk is available immediately and can be reused for any legal purpose, including derivative works and commercial use. The school has decided to opt for a creative commons public domain (CC0) licence for the information, which allows the data to be reused by others.
CRL works with British Library on thesis access
US-based Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is working with the British Library to provide web access to dissertations and theses through the EThOS database. ‘This joint effort will bring
the products of important graduate research at a
number of distinguished UK universities within reach for scholars in North America and worldwide,’ commented CRL president Bernard Reilly. CRL has sponsored
the digitisation of 400 dissertations, about half of which focus on the Middle
East, the Persian Gulf region and/or Islam. The remaining titles are high-use items on a number of topics. CRL’s sponsorship will make this body of scholarship accessible to the thousands of graduate and postgraduate researchers in the CRL community.
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