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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> NSEF [mailto:nsef-bounces@lists.assaf.org.za] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mmaphuthi Mashiachidi<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 6, 2017 10:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> NSEF LISTS <nsef@lists.assaf.org.za><br><b>Subject:</b> [NSEF] NSEF webinars November 2017<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Dear NSEF Members<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>We will not be hosting our annual NSEF meeting this year. Instead, we would like to invite you to two webinars aimed at scholarly editors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Please register for the webinar workshops</span></b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> – <b><span style='color:#C00000'>click on the registration link indicated</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>The webinar workshops will be presented via ASSAf, using BigBlueButton. <b>Minimum requirements:</b> Stable Internet access, speakers. More details will be communicated to registered participants closer to the time. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>How to identify questionable journals? (Friday 17 November, 10:00 – 11:00):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>After the closure of Beall's list, there are still many ways to identify journals that publish low quality research without meeting basic publishing standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Open Peer Review (Friday 24 November 2017, 10:00 – 11:00)</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>To address problems with the peer-review process, many journals have experimented with different types of peer-review models. Open peer review was adopted by several journals in order to encourage transparency in the process, and there are now a number of different ways in which this is implemented. This webinar will provide an overview of the different peer review processes which exist, and will demonstrate how the post-publication open-peer review model is implemented on articles published in F1000Research and associated platforms. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>The workshop details are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=113 valign=top style='width:84.65pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#BDD6EE;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Date<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=104 valign=top style='width:78.0pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;background:#BDD6EE;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Time<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=251 valign=top style='width:187.95pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;background:#BDD6EE;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Topic<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=156 valign=top style='width:116.9pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;background:#BDD6EE;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Presenters<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=151 valign=top style='width:113.3pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;background:#BDD6EE;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Register<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width=113 valign=top style='width:84.65pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Friday, 17<sup>th</sup> November<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=104 valign=top style='width:78.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>10:00 – 11:00<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=251 valign=top style='width:187.95pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Identifying questionable journals<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=156 valign=top style='width:116.9pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Judith Barnsby, DOAJ<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=151 rowspan=2 valign=top style='width:113.3pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/CsNoT2iOjPm04Tq02">Please click here to register</a></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width=113 valign=top style='width:84.65pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-top:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Friday, 24th November<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=104 valign=top style='width:78.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>10:00 – 11:00<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=251 valign=top style='width:187.95pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Open Peer Review<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=156 valign=top style='width:116.9pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Sabina Alam, F1000 Platforms<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Brief biographies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Sabina Alam</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> is the Editorial Director of F1000 Platforms. After completing a PhD in neuroimmunology from the University of Bath, and then a postdoctoral position in neuroscience at the School of Pharmacy in London, Sabina moved from research into scientific open access publishing in 2008. After a few years as a staff editor handling the peer review process on a number of BMC series journals, she became the Chief Editor of the open-peer reviewed journal, BMC Medicine from 2011-2016. Sabina has been involved in various peer review initiatives, and is a member of COPE and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). Sabina joined F1000 Platforms in 2017 as Editorial Director where she oversees the editorial and publishing service for all submissions to the F1000 platforms, which all operate on a post-publication invited open-peer review model. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Judith Barnsby </span></b><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>is a Managing Editor at the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a key resource for the global open access community. She has over 25 years of experience in the scholarly publishing industry, working for non-profit society publishers the Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Physics, as well as service providers such as Ingenta and HighWire. Judith has a keen interest in publishing standards and protocols, and has previously served on the board of the CLOCKSS digital preservation service.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Please address any queries to us at: <a href="mailto:desre@assaf.org.za">desre@assaf.org.za</a> / <a href="mailto:mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za">mmaphuthi@assaf.org.za</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Hope you can participate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-ZA 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