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Category Archives: publishing
Publication: an author’s view
One of the few positives about this strange year is that I have done a lot more mathematics than usual. Sitting on the sofa with nothing to see but occasional people walking along the wynd outside has given me time … Continue reading
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Permanence of open access publication
Both email accounts I use have rather zealous spam filters, and from time to time I have to check what they have filtered out. (An excuse for slow response to email?) The last time I looked I found a copy … Continue reading
Combinatorial Theory
I learned yesterday of a new free and open-access journal, Combinatorial Theory, owned by its editorial board. There is a temporary web page here, on which the editorial board (including some familiar names) is listed. This journal joins a list … Continue reading
Academic-Led Publishing Day
This event is on 7 February this year. You may be interested in taking part. The web address is https://academicledpublishingday.com/. And no, I knew nothing about it until I spent five minutes browsing this afternoon.
Open access, once again
It seems to me that “open access”, in academic publishing, should include authors as well as readers; that is, there should be no heavy page charges for publishing an article (a small administrative charge is probably acceptable), and there should … Continue reading
Two a day
In the distant past, issues of a journal would appear every two or three months, and publication date was no more precisely defined than this; you would only know that your paper had appeared when you received the journal (if … Continue reading
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Tagged Algebra Universalis, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, reducts, sesqui-arrays
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Publication lists and repositories
How many publications do I have? Actually, I don’t care too much about that; but if I were younger and applying for promotion, it would actually matter. But suppose you wanted to answer the question, or indeed to get copies … Continue reading
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Tagged arXiv, DBLP, Google Scholar, MathSciNet, ORCiD, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH
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Bees, replication, and academic publishing
Bees are insects on which we depend. 35% of food crops grown worldwide require pollinators, but this 35% represents a much greater species diversity than the pollinator-independent crops; their loss would threaten human dietary diversity and consequently health. The most … Continue reading
Untangling academic publishing
Most academics would agree that academic publishing is in a period of rapid change, even upheaval; some would even argue that it is not acting in our interests. We produce the primary product, typeset it, act as editors or referees … Continue reading