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March has been an eventful month for the scholarly publishing community. Tributes poured in from all parts of the world when the news of the demise of Dr. Stephen…
- Editage Insights
- March 29, 2018
Canadian-American mathematician Robert P. Langlands has been awarded the 2018 Abel Prize for introducing a theory that would bring together diverse areas of mathematics…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 23, 2018
Stephen W. Hawking, the scientist who captured the world’s imagination with his genius mind and exceptional grit, died at the age of 76 on March 14. While battling a…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 20, 2018
China is poised for yet another phase of changes in its science policy. Top political leaders in the country are busy holding the two most important assemblies of the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 16, 2018
Do you know what journal editors want from you? In this post a journal editor talks about how the predatory publishing and academic hijacking are very much like street…
- Caven Mcloughlin
- March 12, 2018
Just about two weeks to go for the 2018 Asian-Pacific conference of the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE), and we sure are looking forward…
- Editage Insights
- March 11, 2018
The world of academia has caught the social media bug. Academics across varying career stages have taken to using Twitter to share a variety of messages, both…
- Andrea Hayward
- February 28, 2018
Although the month of February is typically shorter, there has been no dearth in the buzz in the scholarly world. From trending discussions around the definition of the…
- Editage Insights
- February 28, 2018
Academia has traditionally been perceived as a dull world that has no room for humour and fun. But such an opinion is far from the truth. Putting such misconceptions to…
- Andrea Hayward
- February 28, 2018
Sci-Hub, the site that provides free access to pirated academic papers, hit a bumpy road last year when it was ordered to pay damages worth $15 million to Elsevier and…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- February 27, 2018