This is what your opening is really supposed to accomplish This month, we’re kicking off a new four-part series here at Technica Editorial about drawing readers into your story and keeping them there. Over the next few months, we’ll be looking at some of...
Use of AI is now outpacing disclosure in manuscript preparation for major scholarly publications. This is a fact that publishers and journals must come to grips with and take steps to address to manage accountability from authors. As new technologies and tools...
When most people hear the word “article” in the context of a scientific or medical journal, they are thinking about original research articles—that is, articles that report on experiments resulting in both novel and scientifically relevant information. But this is far...
In the first installment of this two-part series, we discussed why video abstracts are becoming a popular route for scholarly article authors to take, as a way to increase both quality and visibility for their submissions. Video abstracts can provide a brief but clear...
Recent statistics have shown that watching online video is literally like a part-time job; the average person does it for 17 hours each week. And more than half of those folks—51 percent, to be exact—are more likely to share video with friends than other types of...
For independent authors, publishing a book often involves significant upfront costs—from editing and cover design to printing and marketing. In the traditional publishing model, a large or even mid-sized publisher would absorb many of these expenses, but when a writer...
