The moment is here. After years of planning, experimentation, and analysis you are ready to publish your findings and share your discoveries. Your desktop is littered with manuscript versions one through twelve and your eyes are watering as you scan the final version,...
Several generations ago, when people in the US imagined what the future might look like, their most optimistic ideas tended toward a kind of Intergalactic Techno-Utopianism best represented in media by L. Ron Hubbard, The Jetsons, or various comic books...
For researchers, the road to publication is often a difficult one — and it just got even trickier. With the advent of open-access (OA) journals in which authors often pay a fee to be published, the scholarly publishing world has been the target of many scams. Fake...
One of the aspects I love most about the publishing industry is the diverse group of professional backgrounds that it attracts. A number of my colleagues were English majors, but there are also plenty of publishing experts who studied history, journalism, or language...
Getting rejected stinks. Wouldn’t it be great if we could appeal people’s decisions in life? Imagine asking someone on a date and getting rejected. What if you could submit an appeal letter explaining your argument with data to back it up? If only. Well, in science,...
