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At the end of June, we hosted a webinar in our How to Do Research and Get Published series. This webinar taught attendees how to effectively craft the front matter of their articles to attract readers and succinctly establish its content. Our attendees posed many questions that we didn’t have time to answer, so our editorial team provided answers to these questions, and covered all the vital tips for writing your front matter.
Read MorePlain language summaries (PLS) are becoming increasingly prevalent in the scientific literature as they have the potential to broaden the impact of scholarly articles by bringing them to the attention of a more general audience. In this blog, we aim to guide authors through the process of developing a PLS for a manuscript suitable for submission to SAGE Journals.
Read MoreAs part of SAGE’s mission of building bridges to knowledge and commitment to fostering a more inclusive and diverse publishing community, SAGE Journals is adding Plain Language Summaries (PLS), or nontechnical abstracts, as an option authors can add to their articles for select journals participating in the pilot. The summaries will appear wherever abstracts are available (just below the abstract) and are open to all readers. As an initial priority, SAGE’s goal is to add the PLS function to a limited trial of journals that highlight research representing oppressed, marginalized or otherwise silenced communities.
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