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Now in its fifth year, Peer Review Week is an annual event that showcases the essential role that reviewers play in the curation and dissemination of academic research. Each year has a theme and this year’s is “Quality in Peer Review”. With research output hitting an all-time high in 2018 the demand on reviewers is more significant than ever. It is therefore vital that the right training, recognition and rewards are in place to ensure that meaningful and helpful peer reviews can be shared with authors.

Author Services, Industry NewsKimberley SimpsonSeptember 16, 2019peer review, quality, SAGE post

How to Protect Yourself from Predatory Publishers and Other Open Access FAQs

Industry News, Author ServicesKimberley SimpsonSeptember 4, 2019open access, predatory publishers, SAGE post, industry news

10 organizations leading the way in ethical AI

Industry News, Research MethodsLORNA MCCONNVILLESeptember 3, 2019SAGE post, AI, SAGE Ocean, computer science, artificial intelligence, ethics

Advance and Preprints: A Year One Retrospective

August 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.

Following up 8 years after two ‘first-in-man’ knee osteoarthritis treatments

In October 2017, Professor James Richardson delivered a momentous announcement at the 11th annual Oswestry Cartilage Symposium. After more than 20 years of trials and research, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) finally approved chondrocyte cell therapy for the treatment of articular cartilage defects. This historic decision is anticipated to have a profound impact on the cartilage repair field in the UK and globally.

It’s Impact Factor season!

It’s Impact Factor season! The time of year that publishers, editors, and societies anticipate with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. The Impact Factor (IF), a metric for measuring the impact of a journal’s articles, is arguably the most well recognized measure for comparing journals and evaluating their relative importance in their given field.

Industry NewsChris BurnageJuly 5, 2019Impact Factor, citations, metrics, research impact

Happy International Women in Engineering Day! #INWED #TransformTheFuture

The numbers of female engineers have increased over the years but not at the rate that other professions have seen. For example, new medical school and law school admissions are much more evenly balanced by male/female admissions compared to most of engineering, which hovers around 10-15% female enrollment.

Industry NewsChris BurnageJune 4, 2019Materials Science & Engineering, technology

Top 10 recommended resources for women in academia

In our second post for Academic Book Week we wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of the fantastic resources that there are available to help support, encourage and develop women in academia. From blogs to books, to influential social media accounts and reports, the literature out there is both vast and dynamic.

Tips for bringing marketing and development together in your library

Part Two of a guest post by Essraa Nawar, Development Coordinator, Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University

Essraa Nawar is the inaugural recipient of the United for Libraries/SAGE Academic Friend Conference Grant and will be joining us at ALA Annual this year as a result. This is her first time at the conference, and thanks to this grant, she will have the opportunity to present at a poster session titled “Library Annual Reports made easy.” Wanting to learn more about her successful work, we’ve asked her to share some insights. Catch up on part one first — In the Library, Marketing and Development go Hand in Hand

Industry News, Editor's Picks, ResearchMoazzma ArshadJune 24, 2014Library marketing, marketing, Development

In the Library, Marketing and Development go Hand in Hand

Part one of a guest post by Essraa Nawar, Development Coordinator, Leatherby Libraries, Chapman University

Essraa Nawar is the inaugural recipient of the United for Libraries/SAGE Academic Friend Conference Grant and will be joining us at ALA Annual this year as a result. This is her first time at the conference, and thanks to this grant, she will have the opportunity to present at a poster session titled “Library Annual Reports made easy.” Wanting to learn more about her successful work, we’ve asked her to share some insights.