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The "Scholarly Kitchen" blog has posted an interview with three editors of the British Medical Journal. The interview discusses the initiative by the BMJ to invite caretakers and patients to act as reviewers for research and articles concerning health conditions that they have personally experienced. The BMJ staff concluded that other journals would benefit from following this example.
Below is a link to the interview and an excerpt:
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H-HistBibl this week featured a link to a post on the "No Shelf Required" blog from April 26, 2018 by Mirela Roncevic entitled "The long and winding road to DRM-free ebooks in academic libraries."
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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
11 Jun 2018 and 18 Jun 2018.
Reviewed for H-Empire by Aidan Beatty
