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The founder of PeerRef, a journal-independent peer review service, presents trends in open peer review and pre-prints:
Elliott Lumb, "The benefits of journal-independent open peer review," Research Information, February 7. 2023, https://www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opinion/benefits-journal-independent-open-pe...
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Today we continue our conversation with Scott A. MacKenzie to talk about his new book, The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872, published by West Virginia University Press in January 2023.
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Karin Fischer, Slamming the Door on Scholarship, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 22, 2023.
Dartmouth News reports that the publishing consortium run by Dartmouth College and Brandeis University will be shutting down by the end of 2018, with Dartmouth College Press and Brandeis University Press taking control of their own imprints.
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Angela Esco Elder. Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss. Civil War America Series. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Illustrations. 224 pp.
