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Here’s my latest update about academic publishing tech things that have caught my attention since I got back.

Oct 11

Going to start with a lovely example of Scandi-Chic, The Norwegian Medical Journal’s new Drupal website. Simple, functional, welcoming, and built to se…

Sep 23

Can’t quite believe it’s been six months since I last put together a newsletter, time has flown! Here’s the August edition: Publishing platforms Adam H…

Aug 25

Shiny new things Elsevier's journals are now displaying editors’ gender in support of diversity. Great move and must represent quite an investment in d…

Feb 21

This issue focuses on Academic Publishing Tech Trends for 2021 but it’s impossible not to mention the news that Wiley have acquired Hindawi. There is s…

Jan 6

New products & services Wiley’s Research Exchange, a service that sits in front of their journal submission systems and automatically extracts a manusc…

Dec 10, 2020

It’s been ages since my last newsletter. I took a break over the May Bank Holiday and then struggled to get going again. Like many others I’m tired. Fa…

Jul 31, 2020

Let’s start with some impressive stats from Hindawi's experiment with Writefull (think Grammarly for academic papers) which asked authors to run their …

May 13, 2020

Launches ProQuest have launched a new text and data mining solution, ProQuest TDM Studio, for researchers. [Press release] Enago has announced the laun…

Apr 28, 2020

Launches PKP have released the first version of its new preprint server software Open Preprint Systems 3.2 Beta. See Generation R interview with Juan P…

Apr 15, 2020

Launches Open Access Button has launched Shareyourpaper.org to help authors with self-archiving/Green Open Access. More details on the OA Button blog. …

Apr 7, 2020

I thought long and hard about sending out a newsletter given the current situation but putting together these links took my mind off virus related news…

Mar 30, 2020

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