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Frontiers pilots ‘flat fee’ publishing partnership with the University of California

Frontiers

As a native open access publisher, Frontiers is a natural ally in our efforts to advance a more open, equitable, and transparent publishing landscape,” said Miranda Bennett, director of shared collections at UC’s California Digital Library.

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Natalia Kucirkova and Loleta Fahad – We all must come together – without one part of the puzzle, there isn’t a full picture 

Frontiers

In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the management, development, and implementation of resources that facilitate the ongoing growth, advancement, and retention of professional staff at UCL. So, one of the recurring themes is how academic women buy into this culture and how they resist it. Loleta: “Absolutely.

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Young Arabic speakers offered kid-friendly route into scientific discovery

Frontiers

Arabic speakers worldwide can now access a library of kid-friendly scientific articles thanks to a newly launched educational resource. Ranging from galactic astronomy to treating human diseases to environmental sciences, this is the first free resource of its kind to be available in Arabic.

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Biological physics should be recognised as a major discipline within physics, claims report

Physics World

To address this, the report calls on the American government to provide the National Science Foundation with resources to increase grant sizes while maintaining the “breadth and coherence” of the field. It also calls on faculty from minority-serving institutions to “play a central role” in shaping new federal programmes in this area.

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A Decade of Drexel and the Academy

Academy of Natural Sciences

Since then, many Dragons have graduated from the joint academic department created by the partners, and countless researchers and visitors have enjoyed the expansion of the Academy’s historic and world-renowned collections. After Drexel and the Academy of Natural Sciences signed an historic affiliation on Oct.

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Center For Private Forests At Penn State Renamed To Honor Founder Jim Finley

PA Environment Daily

Jim) Finley , an outstanding academic scholar and teacher whose pioneering work at the interface of people and forests reached hundreds of thousands of people. Professor Finley exemplified all of these values while serving on the faculty and generously giving of his expertise within and outside of Penn State following his retirement in 2017.

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University Of Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory Will Lead Regional Network To Improve Water Quality

PA Environment Daily

Despite Pittsburgh’s three mighty rivers, Elliott says residents rarely share that same kind of connection to our region’s water. That’s something that she and the Pittsburgh Collaboratory for Water Research want to change. The two have evolved alongside each other with different but complementary goals.

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