Tag: academic publishing

An open, collaborative, and version-controlled academic writing workflow

Apr 2, 2025

in Scholarship

academic publishing, academic writing, co-authorship, collaboration, DOI, github, journal, journal article, markdown, Netlify, obsidian, Pandoc, peer review, publication, research, version control, Vitepress, writing workflow

My academic writing now happens in public—from drafting in Markdown to version control on GitHub and automated website deployment. This open source-inspired workflow isn’t just technical; it challenges traditional publishing power structures while enabling transparent collaboration, continuous improvement, and multiple distribution formats. By controlling our means of knowledge creation, production, and distribution, we shift the…
Editors quit academic publishing company

May 24, 2023

in Note, Publication, Research

academic publishing, editor, journal editor, open access, publishing
Why publish-or-perish? Why not, publish-and-prosper?

Aug 3, 2022

in Productivity, Research, Writing

academic productivity, academic publishing, calm productivity, publish or perish, writing

It’s weird to think of some of the things we take for granted in higher education. Surely one of the worst is to be taken in by the publish-or-perish mindset; the idea that, unless you publish you have no future in academia. That you’ll be punished, or worse, that you’ll ‘perish’: To die or be destroyed, especially…
Comment: A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review

Nov 17, 2021

in Note, Publication

academic publishing, commercial, journals, peer review, profit, publishing, Robert Maxwell, science

We found that the total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years. The estimated monetary value of the time US-based reviewers spent on reviews was over 1.5 billion USD in 2020. For China-based reviewers, the estimate is over 600 million USD, and…
OMW, Fermat’s Library looks amazing

Aug 20, 2021

in Publication, Science

academic publishing, annotation, Fermat's Library, impact factor, publication, research, research evaluation, research impact, research publication

Fermat’s Library is a service that allows members to upload papers and annotate them to provide some of the context around research articles, through annotation and discussion. The website creators talk about the importance of understanding the backstory to a lot of academic research. For example, in the image below you can see a summary of Richard Feynman’s…
OpenPhysio | A new physiotherapy education journal

Jul 4, 2017

in Research, Scholarship

academic publishing, journal, open access, openphysio, peer review, physiopedia, publication

I’m really excited to announce a new project that I’ve been working on together with the folks at Physiopedia. Today we’re launching an open access, peer reviewed journal with a focus on physiotherapy education, with a few features that we think are pretty innovative in the academic publishing space. The journal is called OpenPhysio and represents…
I enjoyed reading (April)

May 10, 2013

in Note

3d printing, academic publishing, danah boyd, elsevier, Google, mendeley, reader, reading, research distribution, steven downes

Sudden site shutdowns and the perils of living our lives online (John Paul Titlow): When Google decided to shut down Reader and made the announcement a few weeks ago, this really made me think carefully about what I do online, and where I decide to do it. Obviously there’s incredible convenience in having someone else…
Alternative ways of sharing my PhD output

Apr 15, 2013

in Conference, PhD, Research, Technology

academic publishing, beyond the pdf, force11, open access, phd, publication, publishing, research, research communication, research dissemination, scholarly communication

“Online journals are paper journals delivered by faster horses” – Beyond the PDF 2 I’ve started a process of creating a case study of my PhD project, using my blog as an alternative means of presenting and sharing my results. Most of the chapters have already either been published or are under review with peer-reviewed journals, so…