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Posted Thu, Jan, 24,2013
We're pleased to announce our latest new industry membership: the Independent Publishers Guild. The IPG is 51 years old and has more than 560 members around the world. We look forward to working with out IPG members and contributing to this dynamic organisation. Libertas is also a member of these respected international organisations: -- Assocation of Learned and Profes...
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Posted Wed, Jan, 16,2013
Tumblrs are a relatively new innovation in social media. Unlike other manifestations of social media Tumblrs focusses primarily on images. Libertas joined Tumblr relatively recently with the aim of establishing whether it was an effective channel to disseminate newly published papers. The results so far have been promising. At the time of writing our Tumblr had over 13,000 ...
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Posted Mon, Jan, 14,2013
It’s no exaggeration to write that volunteer peer reviewers are the foundation of scholarly communication. The contributions they make are enormous but the nature of the conventional independent blind peer review process means that these contributions are rarely fully understood. As a publisher I see this on a daily basis. After a peer review report is compiled and an edito...
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Posted Thu, Jan, 03,2013
Facebook users can now follow Libertas on Facebook and stay updated on all the latest developments through their news feed.Our Facebook contains interviews with your colleagues, videos abstracts created by authors and the most important journal news items, together with a once-weekly digest of articles published. Comment on and share posts with your colleagues. Facebook is also a great way t...
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Posted Fri, Dec, 21,2012
Libertas now operates a highly successful Tumblr blog with more than 2,800 followers and 900 posts (December 2012).Libertas also has editor status for the Science category so pictures of our choice can be promoted and will appear on Tumblr’s main science page.Articles with interesting pictures are promoted through Tumblr, with the images displayed in full and a link to the article in the...
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Posted Thu, Dec, 20,2012
The latest visibility statistics for the Libertas website are now available and article views have recently exceeded 9.3 million. Article downloads since 2010 are over 3.1 million and Libertas has over 81,000 registered users. The most viewed article has over 36,000 views, and the most cited article over 550 citations.Statistics from PubMed have also recently been updated, and article views thr...
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The Five Things Reviewers Wish Authors Would Do
Traditional vehicles of medical publication could learn constructive lessons of efficiency from the editors of Libertas Academica!
All authors are surveyed after their articles are published. Authors are asked to rate their experience in a variety of areas, and their responses help us to monitor our performance. Presented here are their responses in some key areas. No 'poor' or 'very poor' responses were received; these are represented in the 'other' category.See Our Results
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