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Certified Peer Reviewer Course

3.3 How to peer review a review article

Peer review is an essential part of publishing review articles, just like it is for research articles.
1.5 h
Fundamentals of publishing

It takes a village: Safeguarding quality in scholarly communication

Scholarly communication evolves and changes at an unprecedented rate and scale today.
1 h
Writing skills

How to prepare a proposal for a review article

At many journals, the process for submitting a review article is much different from the process for a research article: rather than uploading your research manuscript and clicking Submit, it might
10 m
Open science

Cost of publishing open access: how and why

In this module, we tackle one of the inevitable and most commonly-asked questions about publishing open access—article processing charge (APC).
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