Category Archives: publishing

Permanence of open access publication

Posted on 02/10/2020 by

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 →

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Combinatorial Theory

Posted on 15/09/2020 by

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 →

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Plan S-for-shock

Posted on 31/05/2019 by

I do have views about open access, and you might have expected me to discuss Plan S before now. But I know quite a bit more about it than I did, thanks to two things: a visit to the department … Continue reading →

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Academic-Led Publishing Day

Posted on 30/01/2019 by

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.

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Open access, once again

Posted on 20/07/2018 by

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 →

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Two a day

Posted on 11/05/2018 by

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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Publication lists and repositories

Posted on 06/03/2018 by

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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Bees, replication, and academic publishing

Posted on 08/01/2018 by

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 →

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Untangling academic publishing

Posted on 27/10/2017 by

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 →

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Priority

Posted on 22/09/2016 by

The arXiv has made it easier to settle questions of priority, since all papers are date-stamped. However, it hasn’t made the problems go away. See https://pubpeer.com/publications/90BA3090D680D06326E43EC08CDEE8 for a depressing story. Will this kind of thing push us to a situation … Continue reading →

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