Now that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are widely used across academic publishing, how can we make informed assessments of these utilities? One problem is that new utilities appear almost weekly. It’s challenging for any academic to keep up with what is …
What is a reference work for? Below I give some examples of reference works that I think have lost sight of their original function over the years.
Wikipedia gives a good definition of a reference work:
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Once upon a time, academic journals were a cornucopia of formats and styles. They were fascinating, as the above …
Books and journal articles are not the same – you hear this all the time, but I for one …
The Frankfurt Book Fair has been running for so many years, that a standard greeting when you meet someone is “how …
A welcome return to the NEC (formerly Rave) Conference in London. There was a smaller attendance than in previous years, but as before, the quality of presentations …
Back in the early days of the Internet, Paul Graham, then working for Yahoo, wrote a now-famous article, …
As in many areas of corporate activity, best practice in publishing seems to suffer from amnesia. Good principles are established in one generation, then, for no apparent reason, lost. Publishers come and go, and perhaps new …
Karin Wulf’s recent reposting of a Scholarly Kitchen article from 2015 is one of the most sensible articles I have read about citations, from someone who actually uses them (actually two articles – the other …
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