Accessible content benefits everyone. Web accessibility conversations should start at the beginning of the design process. Include people with disabilities in all policy and process discussions.
Introversion and extroversion are personality characteristics that exist on a continuum, with ambiversion falling in the middle. Introverts bring unique strengths to leadership positions.
Feeling the pressure at work? You’re not alone. Many of us struggle to balance workplace expectations with our own well-being. In today's post from ORIGINal Thoughts, author Randy Townsend MPS suggests that rather than let frustration take over, it’s time to Ctrl+Alt+Delete your stress.
Journals should prepare publicly available guidelines on the handling of special issues. Such documentation will spell out how a journal will control for ethicality and protect the validity of the peer review process.
Instructions can be a valuable resource, particularly if you pay attention to them. Whether you’re trying to replicate a mouthwatering recipe, assemble a holiday toy, or just use that new ‘thing’ that you’ve received, your goals are to do it quickly, do it right, and produce something valued and useful.
Since 2009 when the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) instituted the “Publish Ahead of Print” model, the ASCE Journals have been steadily moving to a new publishing model—article-based publishing, or “Issues in Progress.” In this model, instead of placing articles online in a “Just Released” section of the ASCE Library, articles are placed in “open” issues. Essentially this means that at any given time, an issue is “open” online where articles are placed until the issue closes and the next issue is opened. This allows authors to now have both the DOI and the volume and issue number of their article as soon as it is placed online. This is a big step forward for a society publisher, but how did we get here and what were the pain points of the various publishing models employed over the years?
Some of the most rewarding experiences in my career by far have been the close relationships I’ve established with journal editors over the years. I have found that the longer I’ve been in this business, the more these relationships have turned into partnerships—and in some cases—friendships.
A journal’s workflow dictates how articles make their way through submission, peer review, decision-making, production and then, into an issue and the hands of readers. Whether a print publication or an online (digital) publication, the editorial office workflow is a critical component to compiling articles for an issue and how that issue is released.
f you’re currently in the driver’s seat of your journals’ social media program, you may find it daunting in a variety of ways. With every post I crafted for our journal social media accounts, I’d find myself questioning if what I wrote captured the most compelling takeaway for that particular research article.
