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Technica Celebrates Mental Health Awareness Month
It's been a hard year for many people. The stress and isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has put strain on the mental health of all of us but particularly those who were already suffering from mental health issues. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and in...
Technicast: IBPA Publishing University Conference Recap
The Technicast is back in 2021! This podcast features a roundtable discussion on highlights from the recent IBPA Publishing University Conference that took place April 7th-10th, 2021. Special thanks to Nikki Lazenby, Kayci Wyatt, and Rachel Wright for joining me to...
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: What You Need to Know about Alt Text
Publishing is all about promoting an accessible and inclusive approach for readers. Alternative text (or alt text) is one small, but often forgotten, way to promote inclusivity. Alt text is an important way to assist those who have visual impairments by providing...
Fast-Track Publishing in the Era of COVID-19
COVID-19 has changed many aspects of the publishing industry and caused numerous issues and disruptions to arise in the last year. One of the biggest issues has been mounting delays in the peer review and publishing process. With many authors and researchers...
An Author’s Guide to Building a Readership
Whether you’re an author who’s traditionally published or self-published, you can’t expect your book to sell itself. With the large number of new titles published each year, how do you stand out in the crowd? While an obvious way to sell books is to run ads and...
Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Evolution of Feminism
Wisdom Born of Pain An anthology of essays forming a fascinating mosaic of viewpoints, insights, and understandings—Can We All Be Feminists? is a must-read for anyone looking to change their views via empathy and intersectional feminism. “Intersectional feminism”...
Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist: A Discussion
Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist: A Discussion To truly embrace the pledge of equal opportunity employment and ensure fair treatment and opportunity for all workers, businesses, including those in publishing, must act to rectify imbalances resulting from a...
How to responsibly write and edit with anti-racism in mind: writing and editing in the time of COVID and black lives matter
2020 was a year of global change on an unprecedented scale. COVID-19 changed how we work, live, and interact with others, and issues like racial injustice took center stage like never before. With that in mind, it is important that we as writers and editors adjust...
Large Group Authorship: Benefits and Hurdles
Trends in global research pointed to a more open research environment in the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, partially due to a push for collaboration among countries and scientists (on the part of organizations such as the World Health Organization),...
Can Open Peer Review Replace Traditional Models?
With the push toward increased transparency and open access continuing to grow in the scholarly publishing industry, the issue of open peer review is gaining more and more traction. That’s not to say that open peer review is a new concept. Open peer review has been...
