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научное общество Portuguese
associação científica Spanish
sociedad docta Catalan
societat científica 
Organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or profession.
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Now, we need scholarly societies to back a broad array of awards with their imprimatur.
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An interminable debate then broke out between believers and skeptics in the scholarly societies and scientific journals.
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More specifically, pricey journals provide scholarly societies with a precious revenue stream and help publishers fund otherwise-inviable monographs.
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AAP's members include more than 300 of the country's top commercial publishing houses as well as many university presses and scholarly societies.
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