<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="">To all those who received their PhD degrees since mid-2012, here is information about the newest round of the de Gruyter Open Emerging Scholars Competition: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class=""><a href="http://www.degruyteropen.com/open-access-challenge-is-on/" style="color: purple;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">http://www.degruyteropen.com/open-access-challenge-is-on/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="">. It is a competition for the best manuscript. If you win, they publish it and mark it as the winner, plus give you a Kindle Paper White.</span><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);" class="">Randy</span></div><div class="">
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