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 words that carry the heaviest burden of meaning and idiomatic [ read more ]
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 to remind them that the moment they sign a copyright [ read more ]
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 content. The draft publication forms part of EASE’s Peer Review [ read more ]
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
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 a succession colleagues: ‘data set’ (two words) versus ‘dataset’ (one [ read more ]
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 to do more with less would eventually [ read more ]
In the early days of my publishing career, I would fret endlessly about how much editorial intervention was appropriate when copyediting a manuscript. I would feel panic when faced with copy that was basically in pretty good shape and needed only a [ read more ]
I freely admit to being one of those really annoying individuals who will silently correct your grammar as you speak, or sigh inwardly at yet another misused apostrophe on someone’s blog/website/post. I can’t help it – it’s practically a reflex action! But [ read more ]
There comes a time when expressions of concern and explicit warnings are not enough – thus the New York-based business arms of global educational publishers Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning and McGraw Hill have now joined forces to file a lawsuit against [ read more ]
To me, reading is like breathing – I can barely remember a time when I couldn’t read. I read all the ‘Mr Men’ books at 3 years old, and was blessed with wonderful school libraries in the 1970s that introduced me to [ read more ]