Tag: Elsevier
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The Lingua controversy
You have probably read about the mass resignation of all the editorial board and the reviewers of Lingua, a prestigious journal published by Elsevier [in November 2015]. For those of you who may have missed it, here are some highlights. What happened? Last July, the editors of Lingua asked Elsevier to renegotiate the way the journal worked.…
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Predatory publishing, languages, quitting and persevering
This is an archived collection of news items about linguistics, lanaguage teaching and higher education that appeared in April 2014.
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Reading Digest (23-29 December)
Predictably, this has been a relatively quiet week in terms of academic news. Still, here is the weekly round up of notable articles, posts and stories that I came across in the week between 23rd and 29th December 2013: Cracking down on knowledge sharing The first story that caught my attention this week was about…
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My paper, my way :)
Starting this July, all academic journals published by Elsevier will adopt the “Your paper, your way” policy that has been piloted since mid-2011. The policy is pretty much what the name says: contributors to any journal are welcome to submit papers in any format they choose, rather than have to adhere to the preferred styles of…