Month: March 2018

RoMEO Journals for: E Schweizerbart Science Publishers

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RoMEO Journals for: E Schweizerbart Science Publishers

SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving: RoMEO Journals for: E Schweizerbart Science Publishers.
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Best Buy CO Inc (NYSE:BBY) Sellers Covered 6.16% of Their Shorts

Investors sentiment increased to 0.86 in Q4 2017. Its up 0.10, from 0.76 in 2017Q3. It improved, as 34 investors sold Best Buy Co., Inc. shares while 198 reduced holdings. 75 funds opened positions while 124 raised stakes. 233.61 million shares or 5.15% less from 246.28 million shares in 2017Q3 were
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Financial Contrast: AH Belo (AHC) versus The Competition

A. H. Belo (NYSE: AHC) is one of 15 publicly-traded companies in the “PUBLISHING” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare A. H. Belo to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability
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Ruchika Tomar Among 20 Stanford University Creative Writing Program Stegner Fellows

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Indian American Ruchika Tomar was among 20 writers chosen as Stegner Fellows by Stanford University's Creative Writing Program. … In 2015 she received The Center for Fiction's Emerging Writers Fellowship, as well as fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Vermont Studio Center.
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Google URL Shortener Is Shutting Down: What You Must Do

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Google URL Shortener Is Shutting Down: What You Must Do

Google URL shortener is one of the widely used and popular tools for publishers, marketing and branding agencies. Despite, Google has decided to shut down its short URL service goo.gl in the wake of increasing number of offerings by the third party providers. The URL shortening service by Google
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Story on Adventist World Moves Australian to Bible Paraphrase Write-up

Those are the opening words of Psalm 23 in the Bible paraphrase authored by William Ackland and recently self-published in Australia. A retired church worker currently living in Cooranbong, New South Wales, Ackland, 79, set out to write-up a Bible paraphrase of his own six years ago, after reading a
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Maney Publishing

Publisher: Maney Publishing, United Kingdom. Journals: 147 journals – involving 125 other organisations. RoMEO: This is a RoMEO yellow publisher. Copyright: Policy. Updated: 22-Jan-2014
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Inside the making of The Church in the Darkness

The last job I had before this was at Microsoft as a designer in their publishing organization. State of Decay was probably the one I spent the most time on, and then also worked on things like Sunset Overdrive and Quantum Break. But when you're in that publishing world you're doing a very different job
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Men's magazine The Jackal celebrates its first year in print as editor Robin Swithinbank aims to …

As well as comparing the Jackal's concept with luxury freemium publishers like Square Up (publishers of Square Mile magazine), Swithinbank also notes that the title shares many of the same advertisers as paid-for rivals GQ and Esquire. “We recognised there was a potential audience, but when you're
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Isolde in Cleveland

Fourteen-year-old Gwen is a good Catholic girl living in a small town in Ohio. It's 1964. She knows that unmarried women don't have children, so she's is shocked to find herself in 'the family way' after a summer of giddy first romance and sexual exploration with Paul, the Jewish son of her divorced
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The Mystery of the Empty Tomb

The novel won the runner up award in the 2017 Best Unpublished Novel of Richmond award, but I have been unable to find a publisher interested in taking on the project. I am thinking of self-publishing. I would appreciate feedback from readers as to whether such a venture might be worth the effort.
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The Forst Inn Arts Collective hosts diverse events | Chamber Notebook

Questions? Contact us at arts@forstinn.com or at 920-310-7228. The Chamber of Manitowoc County, with its publishing of The Chamber Notebook, provides space for chamber members to present information about their business. The publishing of this information is not intended to show preference for
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Jack Klasey: This is real 'fake news!'

American newspapers have been publishing April Fool stories for more than a century, but the first one to appear in the Kankakee Journal was on April 1, 1955. It consisted of a five-column-wide photo on the bottom half of page 1, showing a naval vessel anchored just below the dam in the Kankakee
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Book'Em author conquers obstacles

The convictions won out, and he decided to self-publish instead. Most self-published authors earn less than $50 a year, according to Bowker's Self-Publishing Report. The path to success is steep and filled with landmines. But Mudgett refused to give up. For two years he appeared on every radio show in
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Blake Shelton NOT Making “Secret Late Night Calls” To Miranda Lambert, Despite Report

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Blake Shelton NOT Making “Secret Late Night Calls” To Miranda Lambert, Despite Report

The outlet actually has a long history of publishing misinformation about the stars. As seen in the screengrab below, Gossip Cop busted the publication in 2014 for wrongly claiming Lambert was getting pregnant to save their marriage. Of course, they never ended up having a baby. Now we can confirm
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The soft burn of “Whiskey & Ribbons”: Talking to Leesa Cross-Smith about her debut novel

“I have an English degree and took a lot of creative writing classes in college, but after that I just started writing and reading. I'd read essays about 'stealing' MFAs because they made me laugh,” she added. “I researched where writers I admired were getting published. I spent a lot of time reading literary
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Testimonials from A-Book-A-Child literary campaign

Three manuscripts were adjudged publishable, which we have published under the Nigerian Writers Series (NWS) of ANA through ANA's publishing outfit, NWS Publishers. In his remark, the President explained the concept behind ANA's A-Book -A-Child nationwide project was to get a literarily impact
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Novel Set On Oregon Coast Imagines A Reproductive Dystopia

Leni Zumas is an associate professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Portland State University. Courtesy of Little, Brown … For women, many of us are asked to choose a primary role that is more important than all the others, whether we're politicians or writers or radio hosts. Sometimes that
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Microsoft Needs to Develop an e-Reader App

From 2000 to 2012 there was no industry standard for ebook formats, it was the wild west. All sorts of formats were vying to be the industry standard for digital publishing. There was FB2, DIVU, LIT, LRF, FB21, MOBI, PRC, EPUB. Amazon purchased the Mobipocket company in 2005 and got the MOBI
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ISA: A NOVEL

A man of faith, unfairly exiled by an oppressive regime, finds himself in the Arabian Desert struggling to survive as he recounts a series of unfortunate events relating to a corrupt bargain involving his brother, a peasant pawn, and a Saudi Judge. He soon discovers a cavern where he is met with a
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Hampton Roads books notes: New releases and upcoming events for April

Several regional authors have new releases, and some new releases feature the Hampton Roads area. Doubleday has released “Wayne and Ford: The Films, the Friendship and the Forging of an American Hero” by College of William and Mary English professor and director of creative writing Nancy
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Kyiv's cultural renaissance

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Kyiv's cultural renaissance

'This queue is a pleasure to watch,' said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko as he made his way through the crowds at the International Arsenal Book Festival in Kyiv in May last year. Some 50,000 people visited the fair, 150 publishing houses displayed their works and hundreds of events were held
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805 Writers' Conference will be May 19 and 20 in Thousand Oaks

New speakers this year will include author and radio publicity expert Alex Carroll and Angela Bole, executive director of the Independent Book Publishers Association. Bole will be speaking on the new guidelines published by association on hybrid publishing, a growing segment of the publishing market.
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ECB, Bank Of Japan Publish Findings On Project Stella Phase 2

On Tuesday, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan released a joint report on part two of Project Stella, which focused on securities settlement systems: delivery versus payment (DvP) in a distributed ledger environment. Although securities settlement is conceptually possible in single-ledger
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Private schools turning into business hubs

The business executives from the publishers and traders of the materials are rushing to the schools offering commission and other sops to the managements for business promotion. Even the belts and badges of the schools are also commercialised. Publishers and traders are offering 15 per cent to 40
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Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.0


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CBSE norms for meet in Sahodaya school complex

The organising Sahodaya will be nominated on rotation basis by the regional officer, Thiruvananthapuram, depending on the performance or financial uprightness of the Sahodaya complex. Sahodaya will not collect any sponsorship to meet the expenses from private book publishers or other company
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Little magazines played a big role in our literary culture Little magazines played a big role in our …

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Little magazines played a big role in our literary culture Little magazines played a big role in our …

A bi-monthly, Miscellany's early group of contributors was a virtual who's who of post-Independence Indian English writing. Nissim Ezekiel, Anita Desai, R. Parthasarathy, Adil Jussawala and others were featured in its early issues. Miscellany, though a journal devoted to creative writing, was in a sense a
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Hundreds turn out for Scotland's first ever Transgender Pride

It also held workshops for all ages, where participants were invited to make their own comics and zines, as well as creative writing workshops. There were talks on the history of trans activism and the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) hosting screenings all afternoon. There was even an
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Milwaukee Public Library Calendar of Events April 8-14

Want to write more, but need inspiration, time, a reason, or support from others who understand the struggle to fill the blank page? Join librarian Ruth Gaba for this creative writing gathering at the M.L. King Branch, 310 W. Locust St., Tuesday, April 10, 4:30-6 p.m. The hands-on workshop will provide
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Community Weekly Newspaper in Virginia Closes After 137 Years

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Community Weekly Newspaper in Virginia Closes After 137 Years

Steve Weddle, Lakeway's vice president for publishing in Virginia, provided a bit more detail to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, but his story actually was nothing new. The papers were a victim of a decline in advertising and rising costs of production. Weddle said that Lakeway had tried to find a buyer
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Alexander Dan On The Untapped Resource of Icelandic Fantasy

Alexander was adamant about not seeing all his work come to nothing and so decided on the uncertain route of self-publishing. His limited print sold out and the book received favourable reviews, but still, the young author was haunted by the whole affair. “I didn't feel like a writer,” he admits.
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Bill Patterson: Proposed newsprint tariff an issue for newspapers

Let me take you behind the scenes of the Denton Record-Chronicle and share with you one of the things that keep newspaper publishers like me up late at night. State press association representatives and newspaper executives from across the country recently gathered in Washington, D.C., to meet
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Writer's visit to Largs Library was a thriller

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Writer's visit to Largs Library was a thriller

Guest speaker Doug Johnstone gave his book loving and writing audience at Largs Library a superb masterclass recently. Novelist, journalist and musician Doug was able to enthuse the book readers about his own writings whilst giving cogent rules and advice for the creative writers present.
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Kodaline to Write Ed Sheeran's Wedding Song

“So yeah, if Ed wants a wedding song, I will write him one.” Kodaline's new song 'Follow Your Fire' is produced by Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid and Steve Mac – who did Ed Sheeran's smash hit 'Shape of You' and Pink's 'What About Us' – and Steve says the pair pushed the band out of their “comfort
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Groovy, iconic posters at a hot new Bahr gallery

Bahr owned BZ Media, a high-tech publishing company, for 19 years. “There were lots of white walls at the BZ Melville office,” he said. “So I put the posters up. That led to deciding to have a show for my friends.” Forty-five people came. “They were thrilled,” he said. “My wife, Rebecca, said, 'You should go
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2 Kuwaiti authors sign their books at Baghdad fair 2018

He said the ongoing book fairs provides an opportunity for the intelligentsia from both countries to meet and discuss ways for enhancing the cultural exchanges. Meanwhile, President of the Union of Iraqi Publishers Abdulwahab Al-Radhi praised the Kuwaiti participation in the book fair, saying that the
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Book Review: Travels in a Dervish Cloak

… had been diverted and left the puzzling remains of a civilisation by its dried-up course.” Wilkinson's writing is sharp, humorous and lyrically beautiful in his more reflective passages. Like Kalidasa's Cloud-Messenger, Wilkinson's “pootles” around the country in his search for the luminous and numinous,
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ADSi Token Might Be The Smartest Investment In Digital Advertising Space And The Sale Has …

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ADSi Token Might Be The Smartest Investment In Digital Advertising Space And The Sale Has …

AdSigma, the next generation Digital Display Advertising platform, is operating blockchain technology to disrupt the existing digital advertising space. Our mission is to bring about transparency within the digital advertising platform so that both publishers and advertisers can profit from it. The scope and
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At the library: Celebrate National Library Week in April

The American Library Association and the American Book Publishers formed a nonprofit citizen's organization, the National Book Committee, in the mid-1950s when it was found that people were spending less and less time reading. Several years after their formation, the committee established the first
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How Facebook Can Better Fight Fake News: Make Money Off the People Who Promote It

Less scrupulous publishers sometimes take the next step, creating pseudo news stories rife with half-truths or outright lies that are tailor-made to emotionally target audiences already inclined to believe them. Indeed, much of the bogus US political items generated during the 2016 election didn't
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Should news organizations be the next to delete Facebook ?

Some news publishers would like to abandon Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook and building their own alternatives. Channel 4 news editor Benb De Pear suggested publishers could collaborate on a site that could be called 'Newsbook.' But it's hard to turn away from Facebook's audience of 2 billion.
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MADSOCIAL: Eastern Kentucky man makes a name for himself as author

“Even if it wasn't one of the big—time publishers, I could still keep my vanity that someone saw my work was valuable,” he said. While working with Thomas, Robbins said he was an arrogant and ignorant author who didn't want to make changes to his first book. Robbins described Thomas as a saint for
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Local jackpot winners beset by money requests

THE CITIZENS' VOICE FILE Jo Ann and Michael Snyder were visited by the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol in February. WILKES-BARRE TWP. — The couple that won a Publishers Clearing House grand prize last month say they have been bombarded with requests — and demands — for
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African SFF 2017 by Geoff Ryman

Tor.com Publishing published a new novella The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson. Galaxies issue 46 edited by Pierre Gévart was devoted to African SFF with translations from Anglophone authors of the level of Lesley Arimah, Diane Awerbuck, Sofia Samatar, Wole Talabi, and Nnedi
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Just as you had your own jig in Japan, allow us our dance

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Just as you had your own jig in Japan, allow us our dance

As if teaching a novice, he argued that the essay celebrated the power of good writing and language use whose self-sufficiency literally renders the … That's why Ngugi wa Thiongo's intellectual activities as head of department and prolific creative writer led to his detention without trial and eventual
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Greenville grad shares wife's journey with cancer

Henderson, who is an executive and business coaching with Focalpoint Business Coaching and owner of the company publishing Jenna's book, Distressed Roots, LLC, met the love of his life at Timber Wolf Lake, a Young Life camp in 2010. “We were both Young Life leaders,” he recalled. “I was leading
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New literature course at Kingston High will focus on African-American experience

The course will follow themes in within literature over time and examine how styles became refined as culture and society changed. The course will examine the impact of slavery on writing and how it changed through abolition, segregation and Jim Crow laws, migration from Southern states, and civil
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Meet Staff Writer, Dylan Lucas

I ended up taking three years of photography and creative writing classes in high school. Now as a college student I minor in film studies, a field of study that, yes, my sister introduced me to. I'm able to apply elements of both subjects that held my interest throughout high school. I get to discuss the impact
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Author events: Chrissy Metz, Junot Diaz stop in Naperville this week

Slotnick, who teaches art, creative writing and composition at Malcom X college, will read from her debut collection, “In Lieu of Flowers.” Wallace, who teaches at the City Colleges of Chicago and the Newberry Library, will read from “House of McQueen.” (847) 446-8880 or thebookstall.com/. • Actress
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YSU Creative Writing Group

Maag Library | 171 Office YSU Creative Writing Group; 13 April 2018 – 2:00pm. Maag Library | 171 Office YSU Creative Writing Group; 20 April 2018 – 2:00pm. Maag Library | 171 Office YSU Creative Writing Group; 27 April 2018 – 2:00pm. Maag Library | 171 Office YSU Creative Writing Group
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The K-12 Code of Ethics and Forcing Students to Write Anti-Gun Letters

It would prevent teachers from being able to “endorse, support, or oppose any candidate or nominee for public office”, “Endorse, support, or oppose any pending, proposed, or enacted legislation”, “Introduce into class any controversial subject matter that is not germane to the topic of the course being
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11-foot alligator takes dip in Florida pool

PETA sued Slater and his self-publishing company Blurb, which published a book called “Wildlife Personalities” that includes the “monkey selfie” photos. The photos have also been widely distributed online. After the ruling, Jeff Kerr, general counsel for PETA, said, “Despite this setback, legal history was
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Ozarks RFD: The road less traveled

In fact, I never took a single I.T. class. A year later I was still undecided, but leaning toward biology and agriculture. However, neither major allowed me much opportunity to take classes in writing. Before the first semester was over, the path I should take was clear. To heck with worrying about what would
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Highest House #2 Review: The Mystery Deepens with an Obsidian Voice

Highest House #2 Review: The Mystery Deepens with an Obsidian Voice … Writer: Mick Carey, Artist and Letters: Peter Gross, Color Artist: Fabian Alqueir, Cover by: Yuko Shimizu, Variant Cover by: Yuko Shimizu, Editor: Denton J. Tipton, Publisher: Greg Goldstein, Publishing Company: IDW Publishing,
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Review: Detective Pikachu

Recent games have lacked creative writing and charm, and Detective Pikachu seemed like it was out to change that. The opening cutscene felt like the beginning of a noir thriller. It showed the bustling city on top, followed by the sewers crawling with Rattata underneath. The scene oozed with charm, and
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