Working and communicating successfully and appropriately with authors of all kinds – particularly if their first language is not English – is a skill that all editors must acquire. It comes with [ read more ]

The wholesale recycling by an author of their text from a previous publication into another work is usually regarded as major no-no in professional publishing, for all sorts of legal and ethical [ read more ]

I'm really looking forward to meeting with old colleagues and making some new connections at ‘Working in and Around #MedComms’ on 25 September at Heathrow!

The terms ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ are often in danger of being used interchangeably in the media space. So, when does ‘misinformation’ become ‘disinformation’? There are significant examples of instances where academic journals [ read more ]

Did you know that a new bill currently being proposed by the US government could threaten public access to published science? Currently, federally funded research publications are freely accessible to all US [ read more ]

I recently came across this article by Jenna Jakubisin in ‘Science Editor’; it came out in March, but it’s still a beautifully succinct and well-argued piece about the value a scientific editor [ read more ]