Cambridge Core Blog70 Years of International Organization
For seventy years, International Organization (IO) has been at the forefront of scholarship in international relations. Across those years, the journal has tried to reflect the pressing questions of the field.…
Archive for September 2016
The integration of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) into scientific communities and the next generation applications
The animal article of the month for September is entitled “Precision livestock farming: a ‘per animal’ approach using advanced monitoring technologies”
2016 NAG / Nielsen prize for Innovation goes to Helen Adey and Dorothy Atherton
Helen Adey, a much valued members of CUP’s librarian panel, of Nottingham Trent University Library and her colleague Dorothy Atherton, provided a conference highlight with their talk on NTU’s Your Books, More Books initiative [YBMB], which won the NAG / Nielsen Award for Innovation 2016.…
Glaciology today: Q&A with Perry Bartelt
In this blog Perry Bartelt– one of four new Associate Chief Editors for the journals of the International Glaciological Society, Journal of Glaciology and Annals of Glaciology – answers questions on the current state of glaciological research.…
Danish Suicide Prevention Clinics prevent more than deaths by suicide
This post was written by Johannes Birkbak and Annette Erlangsen. A new Danish study finds that psychosocial therapy for suicide prevention does more than preventing deaths by suicide.…
Watching the 2016 presidential debates
Watching the 2016 presidential debates Patrick A. Stewart, Ph.D. (pastewar@uark.edu) If a picture is worth a thousand words, volumes will be spoken during the upcoming televised U.S.…
How does our brain select what to focus on during high stake moments?
What happens to your cognitive processes when your arousal levels increase? Quite often, the effects are striking, but mixed. For instance, seeing an arousing object such as a gun tends to enhance memory for that object but impair memory for everything around it.…
The importance of sharing review data: helping the workload of peer reviewers
Quality reviews are critical for peer review. As a co-editor of Political Analysis, I ask a lot from our reviewers, in particular that they read and evaluate complex statistical, mathematical, and computational research. In many of our submissions, authors provide computer code, with detailed supplementary materials, and reviewers need to examine those materials. Political Analysis reviewers are excellent.…
Lettuce Learn: Studying Nutrition Influences BMI of Female Students
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for September is from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is entitled 'Majoring in nutrition influences BMI of female college students' by Mee Young Hong, Tahirih L. Shepanski, and Jaclyn B. Gaylis.
Peer review in the open-access humanities
Among the biggest consternations around the idea of open access (OA) – that is, that research work be made openly available for anybody to read and re-use without paying – has been peer review. Many academics feared that the strict standards of peer review that have governed academic publishing for some time would evaporate, particularly in gold models of OA where the author’s institution pays a fee and there is a seeming incentive for publishers to take on more work.…
Matt Day, Head of Open Access, shares his thoughts on the importance of the peer review process for open access content
What effect does Open Access have on peer-review? We ask Cambridge Head of Open Access and Data Publishing Matt Day. Matt, are all Cambridge Open Access publications peer-reviewed?…
Tectonic evolution and understanding fold-and-thrust belts
In this blog Guest Editor Professor Olivier Lacombe discusses the latest thematic issue from Geological Magazine on Tectonic evolution and mechanics of basement-involved fold-and-thrust belts.…