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Dear Soyuz members, 

Wir freuen uns, Ihnen das Erscheinen eines neuen Heftes des E-Journals DIEGESIS mitteilen zu können.

I am an editorial assistant for two academic journals, and I've been doing it for seven years. I always acknowledge receipt of the MS - after asking the editor if it's something they'd like to review - and then give the authors a timeline of when to expect the peer reviews to be back, after which we will give them our editorial decision. This has worked well for us for the most part.

Friends:

Below is a link to an article on the Scholarly Kitchen blog by Jerry Jacobs entitled "Author Friendly Journal websites."  Jacobs contents that journal publishers could assit authors who are interested in submitting an article by giving them more information about how long their peer review process usually takes and the time from acceptance to publication.  The commentators on the article aren't so sure that this information will be transparent and meaningful. 

Friends:

Below is a link to a press release concerning the open access agreement netogiated between the scientific publisher Elsevir (based in Holland) and a consortium of Dutch universities.  The agreement will enable Dutch researchers to publishin in Elsevier journals without paying a fee if they are on the faculty of Dutch universities.

https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/agreements/VSNU-NL

Margaret

The International Network for Training, Education, and Research on Culture (Network on Culture) is pleased to announce the launch of Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies (