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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...
A Self-Publishing Author’s Guide to Editing
Congratulations! You finally finished that story. Now what? Whether you think it’s a terrible first draft and you’re unsure what to do next or it’s your sixth rewrite and you’re ready to send it to publishers, the next step should be editing. But what kind of...
Gender Balance in the Sciences: What Does the Altmetric Top 100 Tell Us?
Each year, Altmetric, the organization that tracks the online attention published research receives, compiles the Altmetric Top 100, a list of the most-discussed scholarly contributions of the year. Analysis of the Altmetric Top 100 can provide insight into the...
Watch: Technica Editorial Makes Slime in Honor of National Chemistry Week
Stick with chemists across the world in celebrating #NationalChemistryWeek 2020 with the theme "Sticking with Chemistry." In honor of this week, Technica Editorial brought three generations together to make slime. Check it out with a recipe and instructions at the...
Can Plan S Survive COVID-19?
In the publishing industry, perhaps the only issue that is talked about more than COVID-19 is Plan S. I’ll spare everyone a recap of Plan S (but we’ve written about it here and discussed it extensively here), but the ISMTE virtual conference held in August included...
