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The Economics of Open Access Publishing The democratic mission of open access publishing has always been built around both price as well as access. By changing the funding matrix around from subscription pay walls to Article Publication…

In the world of academic publishing, a formal peer review can occur at different points in the publication process. Though not formal in structure, the first review of your in-progress work can be requested from your colleagues prior to…

Publish or Perish The concept of academic researchers feeling pressured to publish on a regular basis in order to maintain their prominence and relevance in the academic community has been around since the 1930s. In the last quarter…

According to linguists, the earlier forms of English did not have articles to accompany nouns as the necessary information concerning number and specificity were conveyed contextually or by other words that were placed somewhere else in the…

Since the recession of 2009, research funding in the United States has become increasingly partisan and risk averse. As a result, funding for basic research (also known as pure or foundational research) has begun to fall precipitously.…

Peer Review: A Forgotten Service? The peer review process in academic journal publishing only seems to get attention when something goes wrong. From the perspective of an anxious author awaiting an answer on the submission of his or her…

Pronouns are simple to define but can be confusing to use. For example, the statement, "Each person should follow their dreams," represents a failure to correctly balance the singular (each person) and the plural (their dreams). Correcting…

What are Citation Metrics? The extent to which a research paper or academic text is cited in other pieces of academic work such as papers, thesis, dissertations, or other texts has now become the ‘gold standard’ for measuring the outcome…

Validation is Not News Academic journals face something of a quandary in their publication cycles. Publishing monthly or quarterly gives you the luxury of curating your content more carefully than scrambling to find verifiable sources in a…

Addressing an “Innovation Deficit” Basic research, also known as pure or foundational research, is losing ground against the deeper pockets of the corporations and institutions that are directing their attention towards applied research.…