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It has been said many times, but it bears repeating. We are living through an unprecedented time. The impact of COVID-19 has affected all of us differently. However, despite the anxiety and uncertainty, this global crisis has reinforced for me the importance of research and how vital our academic community is. I’ve never been prouder to work for an organization committed to the dissemination of research in all of its forms.
Read MoreAdvance: a SAGE preprints community continues to garner submissions from a wide range of authors in various fields. We would like to draw attention to a preprint entitled, “Pink Purchasing: Interrogating the Soft Power of Japan's Kawaii Consumption” and authored by Dr. Lieber-Milo Shiri, who is a graduate of Human Sciences from Osaka University. Dr. Shiri’s paper was posted to Advance in February 2019 and has accumulated just over 100 downloads.
Read MoreNew preprint servers are popping up in droves in the academic community, allowing authors to share their research, track their downloads and citations with a unique DOI, and get community feedback all before their work is peer reviewed.
Read MoreThe paper we want to highlight today was first posted to Advance in November 2019. “The Advantages of Using Literature in the Language Learning Classes” by Ali Mohammed focuses on the significance of bringing literature of all types—including short stories, plays, poetry, and excerpts from novels—into language classes to help facilitate language learning for students.
Read MoreAdvance: a SAGE preprints community celebrated its one year anniversary on August 31st. Since its launch, Advance has accumulated over 300 preprints, featuring research all across the humanities and social sciences. Preprints, as you may know, are early versions of a scholarly paper that haven’t been peer-reviewed. In honor of this special occasion, we would like to highlight three papers of interest that have been posted on SAGE’s own preprint server.
Read MoreAugust 31st marks the one year anniversary of Advance: a SAGE preprints community and, since the day we launched, preprints have continued to see tremendous growth across the scholarly community. Growth, not just in sheer volume of posted preprints, but also in the understanding of the benefits preprints can have in the scholarly community.
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