The Declining Art of Good Research
We seem to be compromising our commitment to good research in favor of publishable research, and there are a combination of trends that are accountable for this.
The first is the continued pressure of…
A Double-Edged Sword
While the days of the television stations, landline telephones, punch-card computers, and library card catalogs may be decades behind us now, the rapid advance of technology has brought both convenience and stress.…
Wouldn’t it be great during peer review if the editors and reviewers could sit down together and discuss the paper among themselves, hashing out any issues with the manuscript as a group before sending it back to the author? Many people…
The Research Life Cycle
When considering the future of academic publishing, a long list of reeling issues will come into the picture. Significant changes in technology, arrival of open access journals, growth of databases, arrival of data…