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On Sunday, October, 29, 2015 the United States Department of Education announced a new campaign encouraging schools to use educational materials that are openly licensed. The organization discussed the launch of #GoOpen in a blog post on October 29. The proposal “requires educational materials created with federal grants to be openly licensed so that any school has access”. This is great news to the open access community because if passed, the regulation could require publications created with department grant funds, to be open access. Supporters of this campaign argue many benefits including cost savings for the districts by freeing up money [...]

There is no doubt that The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is one of the leading and most respected organizations when it comes to schools of business worldwide. The association is coming upon their 100th anniversary and has provided advances in education since it’s inception. In order for a university to be accredited by this institution, they must uphold to certain standards outlined by AACSB listed on their website. One of the most important standards for a business school to be eligible for accreditation by AACSB is assessing the impact of their academic activities. There are three popular [...]

We at the Clute Institute are excited to announce a blind peer reviewed option for papers submitted to our conferences. This endeavor will increase the quality of papers presented as well as create a better experience for our attendees. Papers submitted to our conferences have always been reviewed for appropriateness, using an in-house review process. Beginning with our Las Vegas International Business and Education Conferences in October 2015, authors have the option to submit their paper through the blind peer reviewed process. As always, we expect both reviewers and authors to abide by our stringent Code Of Publication Ethics (found here). [...]

So what exactly is open access publishing?? A few days ago, we received a phone call from a loyal customer of ours. He had one simple question without a simple answer: what is an open access publication? It was brought to our attention that many people do not understand what the difference is between open access and subscription-based journal publications. Over the next few weeks, we will discuss what exactly the open access movement is and the benefits of going open access. The availability of knowledge to the academic world is a core part of the Clute Institute and we [...]

Suspected cases of author misconduct in our journals have recently been brought to our attention. All manuscripts suspected of containing author misconduct have been retracted, pending an internal investigation. In response, we are updating our Code of Publication Ethics and improving our regulations regarding plagiarism and author misconduct. Additionally, we are utilizing plagiarism-scanning software to further protect our authors from accidental author misconduct as well as assist in flagging larger issues within a manuscript. We are in the process of adding a new page to our website addressing author misconduct and including resources on how to write a successful research manuscript. [...]