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Does my university get billed every time I access a paper?
I do not keep a folder on my computer with the hundreds of PDFs of the scientific papers I read, but rather whenever I need a paper I just go and download it from the publisher's website. Of course I ...
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Where can I find a template for a Brill Journal
I want to write an article for this journal from BRILL Publishing, but I an unable to find on their site or even on the internet a template for it. This is my first attempt to a journal in humanities ...
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General Relativity Book Publication [closed]
I am writing a general relativity book for the high school grads and above. I expect my readers to have basics of calculus and vectors and Newtonian Mechanics - I am covering the necessary Special ...
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How to handle a missing author on an ECCV paper submission after the deadline?
We recently submitted a paper to ECCV (European Conference on Computer Vision), but realized after the submission deadline that one of our significant contributors was omitted from the author list. ...
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Has a publisher ever taken action against a researcher hosting the final version of their own paper?
There's an old paper (15+ years) of mine, with average citation numbers. It's pay-walled.
I'd like to just post it on my web site, in its final version. Is this something I might regret?
Has a ...
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The rise of LIDSEN Publishing Inc. - how serious is that publisher?
LIDSEN Publishing Inc. is a relatively new publisher that came to my attention a while ago. Their practices (e.g. sending multiple emails per day asking for submissions / special issues / reviews) is ...
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Continuous article publishing
Is continuous article publishing (CAP) a good thing?
Many journals are making the transition to CAP.
It seems to alleviate costs for publishers. Also, I suppose it is a natural thing, in view of the ...
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Copyright of infographs and where to deposit them?
Recently, a company designed infographs for some of our articles.
Infographs could be described as pictured one-page summaries of a research article. The head of the department paid for that service ...
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Long delay after article was "Provisionally accepted"
I submitted an article around July last year to a IOPscience journal and after the first round of revisions I sent my response letter and my article with the suggested changes. Then after the second ...
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Can academics make a living solely out of publishing?
I live in the developing world where most of the population cannot afford to go to university. Unable to pay tuition, I relied on online material to study. However now even that is difficult because a ...
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Are preface and acknowledgement a must-have in a monograph?
The question says it all. To my regret, my monograph, published by a reputable academic publisher, doesn't have them. My only excuse is that I was just having a baby and my only concern was to submit ...
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Is it possible to download HTML versions of articles available on publishers' websites?
I often see that articles on websites like IEEE Xplore and Springer have a HTML version directly in the page and a PDF version to download. I usually prefer reading the HTML version because it is ...
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How to deal with collaborators prone to publish in MDPI? [closed]
I am the only person in academia doing a certain research, so several colleagues ask me to collaborate. Of course, I am more than happy to take part in multidisciplinary work, as it tends to be more ...
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Invitation for science outreach - any downsides?
A few days ago, I got an invitation to write an article in layman's terms about my recently published research.
The "small outreach journal" is called The Science Breaker. They are a "...
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Timing etiquette of asking for update on book manuscript review
I submitted a book manuscript to Springer. The editor told me that it looked great and that they would send it for peer review and would contact me in due course. But I haven’t heard of the project ...
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how to indicate permission when reusing a figure from a published study [duplicate]
This is a follow-up to my previous question regarding the inclusion of a figure in my grant proposal.
I followed the necessary steps and obtained permission, which was granted free of charge. I ...
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using a simple figure in a published paper in a grant proposal
I want to use a figure from a published paper (in a Wiley journal) in a grant proposal. Since the raw data is not available, I have directly copy-pasted the image of the figure. In addition to ...
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Is it a bad form to ask for extra complimentary copies from academic publisher?
I've published a book based on my thesis with a reputable academic publisher. It turns out that I have to provide 2 more books to my university than I originally thought - they say for archival ...
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Can the integrity of research be affected if the publisher has rights to create derivative works without the author's permission?
This is for a research paper that's presented in a conference and to be published in a book chapter. From an excerpt of the publishing agreement shown below, since the Publisher has the right to edit, ...
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Why does the PRL length limit not apply to large collaborations?
Usually, a Letter in PRL is limited to 3750 words. Yet frequently papers from large collaborations at CERN papers exceed this limit by a lot. One example is the recent record-setting paper with 5154 ...
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Springer eProofing reminder messages
My paper was accepted to a journal owned by Springer publishing. It took 1.5 years to get to this final stage. After acceptance, Springer waited another 2(!) months to send the paper to proof-reading.
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How best to handle financial support for gold OA publication fees?
I just had a paper accepted for publication in an Elsevier journal. It is to be published open access, so the journal has a sizeable open-access publication fee (or "APC") ~$2000.
I've ...
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Paper leaked during peer review - what are my options?
As the title states. I recently submitted a manuscript for one of the flagship journals of Springer.
Not long after, I received information that they used my work for their external recruiting process ...
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Why are mega journals so popular?
I would like to ask why mega journals (large journals designed to be much larger than a traditional journal and with a very broad audience, e.g. Scientific Reports, PlosOne, BMJ Open, Heliyon, ... to ...
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Can I omit my department's name to express my dissenting opinions?
My full affiliation is:
Abacus Beard Department of Underwater Basket-Weaving, Calvin Doofus Division of Ocean Science, University of Watering-Down.
A. B. is the name of a big donor. C. D. is the ...
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About Hindawi Publishing Group and its merging with Wiley
For a long time, Hindawi journals had a semi-good reputation in my field. Many Hindawi journals used to be on Beall's list in the past. With the merging with Wiley, however, Hindawi now also falls ...
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What's a ED, EIC, and ADM?
I submitted a journal article for publication and peer-review is taking much much longer than is typical for the journal I submitted to. In the manuscript submission portal there is a link to contact ...
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Does collecting some peer-reviewed articles in a "self-published" book promote it to a valuable scholarly book?
I have two scholarly books self-published in the field of physics. However, some parts of my books have previously been published in peer-reviewed journals and the editors of my books have academic ...
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Why does Springer need 85,000 words in a monograph?
I'm dealing with Springer about a monograph proposal. My draft was 80,000 words and they asked me to make it 85–100,000 words. I don't want to bother the editor with a question that is just out of ...
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Is it legal to post accepted manuscript to GitHub Pages if embargo has ended for personal website?
I have published my article with Taylor & Francis. For the respective journal, there is no embargo period concerning the publication of the accepted manuscript on the author's personal website - I ...
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"Expect" Nature publication for PhD?
EDIT: Original title was "Guarantee" Nature
publication for PhD?
I am currently applying as a PhD student in a group at the intersection of experimental physics and engineering in a rather ...
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Preprint to arXiv before submission to an AIP journal, how exactly to modify it after 1) submission, 2) acceptance?
From AIP's Web Posting Guidelines for Journal Authors:
For noncommercial free-access preprint servers (e.g., arXiv)
You may post the preprint prior to submission and/or acceptance, using the credit ...
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Do mega-journals (e.g. Scientific Reports, BMJ Open, Sage Open, ...) have longer peer review durations?
We recently discussed mega journals (PLOS One, Scientific Reports, SAGE OPEN, BMJ OPEN, ...) in our group. One member argued that said journals have longer peer review and processing times than field-...
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Does the typesetting process start all over again after submitting the correction of the proofs?
I have received the proofs of my article a week after acceptance. There were some mistakes made during the typesetting which I have outlined while correcting the proofs. It's been a week since the ...
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Options about responding to offer from editor to transfer manuscript to lower-tier journal
I recently submitted a first-author paper to a top-tier scientific journal (A). The editor responded that the paper would not be reviewed in that specific journal (A), but that it could be transferred ...
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Cumulative Thesis/Dissertation
I am writing my PhD thesis now and my supervisor said it can be in the cumulative way because I've got enough papers, 3 in sum. So now I look for publisher permission to reprint the papers. My ...
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How to release the copyright of a published book?
Nearly five years ago, I have published my book, and now I requested the publishing company to release the copyright and return it to me. They agreed as an exception, however, they want me to pay them ...
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Why are some articles that are published in subscription mode available publicly in the journal?
I was checking the content of a Springer journal, when I found out some papers which are not open access, yet they are made public and everyone can download them. While other articles, also published ...
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Is it necessary to have a variety of publishers in the list of my own publications?
I am a junior researcher and physician at a German university hospital. I am part of a funding program with regular workshops on grant applications, scientific writing, etc.
More recently, we ...
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What should I do if I believe that the Journal is being careless about the plagiarism?
This post is related to this one. It's been almost a month, and both of the publisher and the journal have done nothing about the plagiarism. Every time I call Springer (I called them like 5 times), ...
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What should I do when someone publishes a paper based on results I already posted on the internet?
I posted new theorems and proofs on Mathematics Stack Exchange.
Weeks later, someone else submitted the same results to a Springer journal and the paper was accepted.
How can a publisher like Springer ...
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How much do for-profit companies pay for journal subscriptions?
We have these figures for universities: Reference for annual journal subscription costs paid per university?
Do we have similar figures for companies (in theory, the ultimate end user)? For example, ...
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Has there ever been a discussion about the nationalization of academic publishing?
I have read a few articles in the last couple days about several problems with academic publishing. To me, the primary critique is that oftentimes, research is funded with public money, in public ...
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Should I contact journal editor?
I submitted an article to a journal last year in July. It took some months for it to be processed and peer reviewer to be assigned.
I received the first decision in March (major revisions). The ...
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Is it normal for a journal to offer to transfer a rejected manuscript to another (more expensive) journal?
Recently, a submission of mine was declined as not suitable for the journal, but with the rejection came a request to transfer the manuscript to another journal owned by the same company.
However, the ...
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Does Springer publish conference proceedings for free?
Does Springer publish conference proceedings for free?
It does seem very unlikely given the significant amount of work they do to publish the proceedings.
However, I have spent hours reading through ...
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How do you release a previously published, copyrighted work as open access?
I am working on an open-access textbook. I have the permission of an author to use material from a previously published book from 20 years ago which the publisher returned the rights to digital ...
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Help Me Evaluate A Conference [duplicate]
I am now trying to get my article published before the end of the year. My advisor suggests me to submit my full paper to ICISE-IE 2022, a international conference on information technology and ...
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The status of my manuscript changed from Undergoing Initial Checking to Under review but the ED: not assigned? [duplicate]
I submitted a manuscript to one of the weliy journals. The status was “Undergoing Initial Checking” on Scholarone system. After 3 days, the status changed to “Under Review” along with "Ed: not ...
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Is it fine to ask for a deadline extension from an academic publisher
I have signed a book contract with a reputable academic publisher a while back. I have finished half of the work and so far it's right on schedule. Now I'm about to give birth and after a discussion ...
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