4 September 2024
If you’re a word nerd like me, you’ll appreciate this little nugget about the word ‘run’ that The Scholarly Kitchen’s David Crotty uncovered. Sometimes it is the most commonplace and basic of [ read more ]
1 August 2024
Over the years, I’ve come across a fair number of inexperienced academic authors with a less-than-sound grasp of their responsibilities regarding the re-use of their own work in other publications. I have [ read more ]
31 July 2024
The European Association of Science Editors (EASE) has launched a Request For Information on their recently drafted publication ‘Recommendations of the Use of AI in Scholarly Publishing’, to gather feedback on its [ read more ]
22 July 2024
John McIntyre – a man after my own heart … the wit and the wisdom in his latest post are a total delight. https://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-old-editor-gets-cranky-in-morning.html
19 July 2024
I know that editorial exactitude gets up most people’s noses, but words matter to me. So I was delighted to discover an ally in an argument I have long been having with [ read more ]
9 July 2024
The recent unprecedented strike action by staff at Springer Nature (https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/journalists-at-springer-nature-titles-set-to-strike-over-pay.html) highlighted a fundamental truth about an industry squeezed by the twin demands of profit and efficiency. Well, who knew that trying [ read more ]