Happy Friday, everyone – the working week is nearly over! For word nerds and language wranglers such as I, however, it’s difficult to switch off: my reflexes jump at the sight of a misplaced apostrophe or typo on a website, or the [ read more ]
The erosion of human editorial judgement by AI is now becoming an extremely worrying and seemingly unstoppable force – as reported in a post by ‘The Conversation’ in WNIP (https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/the-importance-of-editors-in-the-age-of-highly-unreliable-ai/). Discussing the news that the German newspaper Bild will [ read more ]
Did you know that there is going to be a new Master’s course in Science and Health Communication launching in September 2023, developed by the University of Dundee and the AMICULUM med comms agency? It’s specifically designed to prepare students with the [ read more ]
The 17th European Association of Science Editors (EASE) General Assembly and Conference will kick off tomorrow, Thursday, 1 June, and end on Saturday, 3rd June 2023. It is a hybrid event, hosted by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM at the Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Teknik [ read more ]
Few people divide opinion like Elon Musk, but he is gaining traction with his decision to enable media publishers on Twitter to charge users on a ‘per article’ basis with one click, eschewing the conventional business models based on either a regular [ read more ]
The fight against scientific fraud goes on, mostly behind the scenes and with little recognition, but in a recent article in ‘Wired’ the work of PubPeer and others is highlighted and discussed in an eye-opening piece. The prevalence of fraud – not [ read more ]
For those of a scientific bent who sighed at the appropriation of Wordle by the New York Times with the anticipation that it may eventually disappear behind a paywall – you can get your science wordy kicks at Words for Nerds on [ read more ]
If you’re thinking of attending, then there is still time to register for the 2nd World Conference on Scholarly Publishing, which will be held virtually on 19–20 May 2023 – the deadline for final payment is 15 May 2023.
The conference theme addresses [ read more ]
When Wiley discovered that paper mills were infiltrating their operations at Hindawi, this was a serious wake-up call – not only for them, but for academic publishing as a whole. Scholarly publishing is a business that relies as much on professional integrity [ read more ]
If you want a better insight into how impactful journals actually are when making a decision about where to submit your research, then start thinking beyond a journal’s quoted Impact Factor. This comes as no surprise to me, having been involved with [ read more ]