Category: Publishing
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Pay to Be Recommended at Academia.edu?
We’ve discussed issues with Academia.edu here before. Now there’s a new development. A number of academics have been receiving messages like the following: Hi…
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Statement from Synthese Editors / Moratorium on Special Issues
The editors-in-chief of Synthese, Gila Sher, Otávio Bueno, and Wiebe van der Hoek, have written a statement, below, responding to the controversy surrounding the publication of…
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Hey Did You Know Logical Pluralism Is “Connected to Homosexuality”? (updated with a statement from the editors of Synthese)
Or that it is like a “sexy young woman that 1 day will be a not so attractive old lady?” Neither did I. But that is…
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Philosophy Citation Practices Revisited
You may recall that earlier this year, in a guest post, Marcus Arvan decried philosophers’ reading and citation habits. Now, Moti Mizrahi has a…
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Copyrights and Quotes in Academic Work
So here’s yet another case of over-the-top copyright restrictions involving something I wrote. In December 2014, the Whitehead Research Project held an excellent conference…
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What Should Academics Do About Journal Prices?
All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week resigned to protest Elsevier’s…
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Reviewing Open-Access Books
The increase in electronic publishing and open access books raises a number of questions, some of which concern the practices of reviewing books. Along…
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Getting Credit for Peer Review
It is a great service to the profession to peer review articles, and service to the profession counts at most institutions towards tenure and…
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Should Philosophy Articles Be Shorter?
“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” This line is attributed to several authors, but probably originated with Pascal.…
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“Sleeping Beauty” Papers in Philosophy (updated)
“Sleeping Beauty” papers “lie dormant for years before experiencing a sudden spike in citations as they are discovered and recognized as important.” A recent…
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Moratorium and New Editors at Mind
Thomas Baldwin (York), the current editor of Mind, writes that the journal will cease accepting new submissions for several months, starting in July, so…
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Answers from Academic Publishers
Two weeks ago I put up a post soliciting questions for academic publishers. If you submitted a question, thanks. Editors at various presses—Peter Momtchiloff,…
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What Counts As Pre-Publication?
Dale Miller (ODU) noticed that Public Affairs Quarterly has the following “Pre-Publication Policy“: Public Affairs Quarterly will not publish material that has already appeared elsewhere. This…
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Using Initials to Hide Gender
There is some evidence that women scientists use their first initials, rather than their first names, at a greater frequency than men do in…
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Questions for Academic Publishers (updated)
Oxford University Press philosophy editors Peter Momtchiloff, Peter Ohlin, and Lucy Randall have offered to answer Daily Nous readers’ questions about academic publishing. Here’s how it’ll…
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No One Is Listening
Up to 1.5 million peer-reviewed articles are published annually. However, many are ignored even within scientific communities — 82 per cent of articles published…
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How to Review Book Manuscripts
An assistant professor writes in with the following query: I’ve been asked recently to review some books for major presses, which is great and…
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APA / BPA Journal Surveys
Last year, the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the British Philosophical Association (BPA) teamed up to conduct a survey of philosophy journals, and the…
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Live Twitter Chat w/ Timothy Williamson
Timothy Williamson’s new book, Tetralogue: I’m Right, You’re Wrong, is a philosophical conversation that takes place on a train between four characters. As Catarina Dutilh Novaes…
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Do Not “Do Not Cite or Circulate”
Lee Anne Fennell, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, has written a short and amusing paper entitled “Do Not Cite or…