OPTIMAL EDITORIAL SERVICES IS 3 YEARS OLD TODAY! I became a freelancer because I felt I had nowhere else to go. I didn’t want to carry on climbing the greasy pole of [ read more ]

As discussed by Jaime A Teixeira da Silva in an article in September’s ‘Science Editor’ (https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/detection-and-elimination-of-tortured-phrases/), it’s no secret that academic publishers are gradually cutting copyediting resources. However, they are doing so [ read more ]

It’s been a simmering issue for a while, but in the world of scientific journals, the insistence on manuscript submissions complying with a dense and ever-growing list of formatting and document structural [ read more ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]