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COVID-19’s Impact on Youth Un/employment and Social Policy in Turkey

The COVID-19 crisis is an unprecedented one in terms of its reach and pervasiveness, and it exposed the vulnerabilities of the global social, political, and economic system. That said, its impact on countries has been uneven and this unevenness depended heavily on the position countries were in immediately prior to the crisis. In Turkey, the key issue of youth un/employment emerged as one of the long-lasting ones since it was a major challenge before the crisis. Policy-making emerged as another key issue as the ability to generate long-term planning escaped Turkey and countries alike for a while. Regardless of when we will get past the pandemic, the post-COVID-19 world will be an extremely difficult one.

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Disruption to print journals delivery

This situation has developed further and there is an updated message available here. We are experiencing delays and disruption to some deliveries of our printed journals at different stages of the supply chain, due to the impact of the Covid-19 virus.…

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What does peer review do?

This blog accompanies the article The Royal Society and the Prehistory of Peer Review, 1665–1965 by Noah Moxham and Aileen Fyfe published in The Historical Journal.…

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The Great Keyishian Case: lessons in academic freedom from the Cold War

When the History of Education Quarterly asked me to contribute to a symposium on academic freedom, I could hardly refuse. I had recently written a book about how anti-communist witch hunters in the late 1940s and 1950s attacked teachers and professors, and about the Supreme Court’s eventual (and much-belated) response in 1967–striking down a typical state loyalty law and announcing that academic freedom is a “a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom.”…

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2017 Charleston Library Conference

The recent Charleston Library Conference, held November 6-10, 2017, was an excellent opportunity for academic librarians, vendors, and publishers to meet, listen to, and comment on each other’s initiatives, plans, and concerns for the future.…

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PERPSECTIVAS BIBLIOTECARIAS: Erik Alonso García, coordinador de Desarrollo de Colecciones en el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, campus Santa Fe, en la Ciudad de México

Diseño curricular, tecnología, y un proyecto especial llamado “Vínculo Académico”. Estos son algunos de los temas tratados en la segunda entrega de PERSPECTIVAS BIBLIOTECARIAS, donde entrevistamos a Erik Alonso García Arellano, coordinador de Desarrollo de Colecciones en el Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), campus Santa Fe, en la Ciudad de México.…

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LIBRARIAN PERSPECTIVES: Erik Alonso García Arellano, Collection Development Coordinator, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Curriculum design, technology, and a special project called “Vínculo Académico”. These are some of the subjects discussed in our second Librarian Perspectives interview, with Erik Alonso García Arellano, Collection Development Coordinator at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), Santa Fe Campus, in Mexico City.…

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Journal of the APA receives PROSE Award

The American Philosophical Association and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce that the Journal of the American Philosophical Association has been selected as the winner of the 2017 PROSE Award for the Best New Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences.…

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Profile: Frances Pinter and Knowledge Unlatched

Frances Pinter is the Founder of Knowledge Unlatched, an Open Access pilot project for ebooks, which includes CUP titles. Frances says that Knowledge Unlatched was an idea born out of frustration with a business model that ‘just skimmed the market and only got important foundational books into a handful of wealthy libraries’.…

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New institutional ebook pricing 2014

On May 1st 2014, we radically changed the pricing model for Cambridge ebooks available to institutions. The changes have created a simpler pricing structure, making it easier for institutional customers to buy Cambridge ebooks.…

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EBA in the UK

UK academic institutions can now access Cambridge ebook collections via an Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) model agreed through Jisc Collections, an organisation which works on behalf of UK education.…

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Demystifying the article production process

Congratulations, your paper has been accepted into a journal! What happens next? Peter Moorby, Production Editor for Cambridge Journals, helps demystify the article production process and explain what happens from submission to final publication.

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