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How to sell your journal: The secret business of academic journal acquisitions

Ever wondered how academic journals change hands? I recently had a revealing conversation with a company specializing in journal acquisitions. Here’s what I learned about the ’empire’ they’re building and what it suggests for the responsibility of academic societies in the commercial takeover of scholarly communication.

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¿Cómo quieren ser evaluados los investigadores en España?

Algunos aspectos destacados de una encuesta en la que preguntamos a 875 académicos investigadores que viven y trabajan en España su opinión sobre la importancia que debería tener una selección de 39 criterios diferentes en la evaluación de los currículos de investigación de los candidatos en un proceso de contratación.

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Report back from COAR’s annual meeting: celebrating a $4 million grant for the Notify Project

Last week I attended the annual COAR meeting held in Madrid and organised by DIGITAL.CSIC. It was by all accounts an exceptional event marked by two important reasons for celebration: being the first International post-pandemic face-to-face meeting and receiving a significant grant to continue the development of the Notify Project.

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Psicológica y DIGITAL.CSIC aúnan esfuerzos a favor del acceso abierto diamante sostenible y de los servicios editoriales de repositorios

Anunciamos el relanzamiento de Psicológica, la revista de la Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental (SEPEX), como revista de acceso abierto diamante que publicará sus artículos exclusivamente en DIGITAL.CSIC, el repositorio institucional del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

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Psicológica and DIGITAL.CSIC join forces for Sustainable Diamond Open Access and Repository as a Publisher Services

We announce the relaunch of Psicológica, the journal of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX), as a Diamond Open Access journal published exclusively on DIGITAL.CSIC, the institutional repository of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

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Is there life beyond publishers?

Here are the slides of my presentation at the 2021 virtual conference organised by the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX). In this invited talk I had the opportunity to present the new publication model of the society’s journal, Psicológica. A lot more to come on this project after the imminent official launch of the journal, so stay tuned!

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