Alberto Montanari received the William Kaula Award at the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held 12 December 2018 in Washington, D. C. The award honors an individual “for unselfish service to the scientific community through extraordinary dedication to, and exceptional efforts on behalf of, the Union’s publications program.”
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AGU Launches Influential New Journal: AGU Advances
The open access journal will publish seminal research from across the Earth and space sciences and serve to complement AGU’s well-respected portfolio of journals.
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Eos.org Wins First Prize for Editorial Excellence
The newly received gold award recognizes the website’s overall editorial content and quality. Other awards won include a silver and a bronze for cover photography on Eos’s print magazine.
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Avoiding the Guise of an Anonymous Review
Anonymous review of scientific manuscripts was intended to encourage reviewers to speak freely, but other models may be better for accountability and inclusivity.
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Enabling FAIR Data Across the Earth and Space Sciences
Data experts from publishers, repositories, and other organizations met last month to kick off a project to promote open and Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data principles.
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AGU College of Fellows Announces Program Plans
A new group that represents the American Geophysical Union’s Fellows kicks off its programs through 2018 with a town hall at the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting about scientific publishing.
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Diversifying the Reviewer Pool
After a successful trial to actively encourage authors to recommend diverse lists of reviewers for their papers, a reminder statement about diversity will now be rolled out across AGU journals.
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New Earth and Space Science Preprint Server to Be Launched
An international advisory board drawn from geoscience societies will guide the project initiated by the American Geophysical Union.
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AGU Marks Peer Review Week
AGU is committed to assessing and improving the peer review process through various new and recent initiatives.
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Annotation Tool Facilitates Peer Review
AGU journals will incorporate open source software to facilitate dialog among reviewers, editors and authors during peer review.