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There is a definitive shift in the publishing industry towards open access. The share of open access journal publishing is steadily increasing through the launch of new…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 23, 2017
Open access is steadily gaining momentum in academia, but many young researchers are still unclear about it. What is open access? What are the different venues for…
- Kakoli Majumder
- October 22, 2017
Synopsis: Often, predatory journals send email invitations to authors to submit their articles and lure them into paying APCs with assurances of publication. However,…
- Kakoli Majumder
- November 28, 2016
Authors often avoid publishing in open access journals as they are under the misconception that all open access journals charge high APCs. But what if one of the co…
- Kakoli Majumder
- October 31, 2016
How can more scholars and journals embrace preprints to make research freely accessible? How are new uses of preprint servers changing the academic publishing landscape?…
- Editage Insights
- October 31, 2016
As an author, are you interested in whether or not to publish your research in an open access (OA) journal? OA publishing has come under a lot of scrutiny in the…
- Tarryn Greenberg
- October 31, 2016
This post provides basic information for those planning to submit a paper to PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA).
- Yateendra Joshi
- September 27, 2016
This post provides factual information and submission tips about the journal Nature Methods for the researchers who plan to submit articles to the journal.
- Yateendra Joshi
- August 31, 2016
The impact factor has for a long time been a measure of journal prestige. Most authors wish to publish their papers in the so called high impact journals, even though it…
- Dr. Rishabh Jain
- August 29, 2016
This post summarizes the information of interest to potential contributors to the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
- Yateendra Joshi
- August 18, 2016