Search results for tag #publishing
The Dutch #Research Council #NWO joined a consortium to support the #OpenAccess #publishing platform Open Research Europe (ORE).
Researchers at Dutch institutions - whether they have an NWO grant or not - can now publish on ORE for free.
ORE's aim is to promote equity, diversity, and transparency in scholarly communication, without compromising on quality. The expanded platform launches later this year.
The more I look into this Shy Girl book drama, the more it disturbs me that nobody is pointing out that publishers don't actually hate LLMs or so called AI. They're just hoping we get to a point where you’re so drowned in it that you stop caring and then they can just produce buckets and buckets of slop. If publishers tell you they don't like AI/LLMs, they are lying to you. Publishers love AI. They're just hoping the world stops caring. #Publishing
It's beginning!
EU journal replacement set to start this fall. Free OA publishing for all authors from 11 supporting countries. This is Germany's DFG press release:
"New Publishing Opportunities for Researchers: Germany Joins Open Research Europe"
https://www.dfg.de/en/news/news-topics/announcements-proposals/2026/ifr-26-21
This list of 42 publishers that accept direct submissions of speculative fiction (not all are currently open) may be helpful to those who publish in #fantasy, #scienceFiction, #horror, or intersections of such genres. https://authorspublish.com/42-publishers-that-accept-direct-submissions-of-speculative-fiction/
No more #AI influence on the #political system! https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/opinion/crypto-ai-politics.html Let alone #human #cognition and #writing my take here https://nkozphoto.com/index.php/2026/03/09/writing-critical-thinking-and-ai-where-are-we-headed/ #politics #democracy #education #corruption #tech #chatbots #students #intellectual #philosophy #publishing #nonfiction #fiction
Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program. It's Bezos obeying the fascists in advance. And it highlights how, with the flip of a switch, they can easily shadow-ban whatever books they want.
I'm removing all my Amazon affiliate links & will deprioritize Amazon links
#writing #publishing #selfpublishing
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From IGI Global Scientific Publishing:
#Academia #Publishing #Education #Writing #COVID
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Dear Prof./Dr. Marek,
| hope this email finds you well. | am honored to inform you that your
Open Access article, “Teacher Experiences in Converting Classes to
Distance Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” in the International Journal
of Distance Education Technologies (I/DET), has been selected for
recognition in the Most Impactful Papers of the Year Award for 2025.
This award honors your exceptional contributions to the field of Education
and to the advancement of Open Access Publishing.
Everywhere, advice on how to write faster. A novel in four months, a blog post a day, Substack longform in an hour.
Write quicker. Publish more. Optimise. Optimise. Optimise.
This essay argues for something else.
Speed doesn’t just change how we write, it changes what can be written at all.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-writing-factory
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #UK #Publishing #Craft
A reminder, so people don’t forget. Substack unabashedly platforms and promotes literal Nazi publications.
If you publish on Substack or support authors there, you are paying rent for nazis. It’s that simple.
Refuse to support authors there, and they will move.
Ghost awaits:
https://ghost.org/
The nazi problem:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/substacks-nazi-problem-wont-go-away-after-push-notification-apology/
#Substack #Nazis #NaziProblem #Ghost #Publishing #NaziBar #Writing
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2023. November 28: The Atlantic publishes expose of Substack, citing their “nazi problem.” December 21: Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie says nazis are welcome because he’s too fucking stupid to equate nazism with violence. Quote: “We don’t think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away. Our content guidelines do have narrowly defined proscriptions, including a clause that prohibits incitements to violence.”
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2025. July 28: Substack’s mobile app sends push notification promoting the nazi publication NatSocToday. July 28: Substack apologizes for glitch, but not for platforming nazis. Quote: “We have taken the relevant system offline, diagnosed the issue, and are making changes to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”
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2026. February 6, 2026: Substack is still platforming nazis. Including NatSocToday. Screenshot of a terminal command and results, showing that the nazi site is live as of February 6, 2026 at 6:56 GMT.
If you’re looking for a great open-source project to use and sponsor, check out
I’ve been using Pandoc for years, it’s a huge time-saver for publishing documents from Markdown and an essential tool in my workflow.
You can buy my map services by hiring me as "Milo" from StardustBookServices - check out their new website and hire me, or any of the other 100% HUMAN book services providers from them!
Website: http://www.stardustbookservices.com/
Email: hello@stardustbookservices.com
(Or you know, order commissions from me directly if you like my art at: hiisikoloart@gmail.com)
#art #books #bookstodon #authors #writing #bookservices #maps #illustration #fantasymaps #book #writing #publishing #noAI #HumanMade
Publishing industry holds auction to support Minnesota; includes manuscript reviews, time with agents, limited editions and other good stuff.
Die Ghost Test-Instanz läuft inzwischen. ActivityPub ist noch nicht aktiviert. Da muß ich etwas tiefer einsteigen. Problematisch war die Installation auf einem YunoHost-Server. Ghost wurde als Docker-Compose installiert und hatte ständig Probleme mit dem YunoHost-SSO. Das war die größte Hürde bei der Installation. Ich empfehle daher die Installation auf einem ganz normalen Ubuntu- oder Debian-Server mit Docker.
Weitere Experimente mit Ghost durchgeführt. Die Anwendung lließ sich mit Dokploy leicht installieren. Wie immer - Teufel im Detail. Email-Konfiguration für User-Mails und Newsletterversand ist ein wenig tricky. Ansonsten ist dieses Publishing-System sehr leicht zu bedienen und die verschiedenen Themes machen einen optisch ansprechenden Eindruck.
Gourmet Magazine, long shuttered due to the free internet, is being rebooted by millennial food journalists as subscription newsletter, emphasizing real food with serious recipes instead of easy weekend meals prefaced by SEO-induced rambling
Also: if you can't find publishers for your radical stories (or want to get it out faster with more control), please consider self-publishing. I was in the first wave of selfpub authors 15 YEARS ago—anyone who sneers at selfpub is very behind the times.
Your stories don't do any good in a drawer.
I've made a career out of self-publishing—15 yrs, 2 pennames, audiobooks etc. I've led author groups, mentored many, got out of the helping business due to the scammers. But I want to encourage folks to self-pub in these repressive times.
I've updated my (free) Quick Start Guide to help:
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My book, Drystone - A Life Rebuilt, has been out for only five months. A mere babe in the book world. I’ve just seen that Amazon are currently selling the Kindle edition for £1.99. That means I earn less than 20p if someone buys it.
Twenty-fucking-pence.
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Book #Books #Scotland #Publishing
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Screenshot of an Amazon product page for Drystone - A Life Rebuilt by Kristie De Garis. On the left is the book cover showing stacked, irregular stone shapes in green, blue, yellow, black, and pink on a pale background, with the title ‘DRYSTONE A LIFE REBUILT’ and the author’s name. On the right, the Kindle edition is highlighted at £1.99, marked ‘Best Price in 30 Days’, with a ‘Buy now’ button. The hardcover price is shown as £12.99. The page includes a short book description, a 4.8-star rating from 18 reviews, publication details, and the publisher Polygon.
The exploitative character of academic publishing in a single cartoon.
#publishing #universities #research #academics
h/t Alexandra Kupferberg/LinkedIn
original illustration: Thailand by Tawan Chuntra.
https://www.irancartoon.com/site/artists/tawan-chuntra#&gid=1&pid=30 #TawanChuntra #Thailand
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Cartoon (meme - retitled) showing academic publishers at the ned of a plank over the void, supported by the weight of academics on the land-end, while one turns away (saying 'fuck this'), the publisher says: 'You will write papers for us & pay us to publish them. You will review those papers fo free. You will also pay us to read those papers'.
I had a short story accepted by a publishing press a while back, but the company has imploded. The editors who chose my story have gone on to start their own publishing company.
They negotiated a brand new contract that's 14 pages long and filled with things that give me pause.
They want exclusive text rights to my story for two years, which is twice as long as anyone has ever asked me for. It would also mean they don't appear to want my story considered for best-of-the-year collections.
They have a don't-be-a-criminal/dick clause which also gives me pause. If an author is found guilty of some crime considered awful by them, they cancel the contract. If you do something they consider morally repugnant (eg racist, TERF, etc), they can cancel the contract. Considering I was pile-on harassed by a lot of people on IG spreading lies about me a couple of years ago, I don't want to end up in a fight for my rights situation if someone tries to impugn me again.
And then there's the third thing they said. If I am to write another story with similar setting/characters/etc that could be considered a sequel or prequel, then I would have to give them first dibs before trying to sell it elsewhere. I've never had anyone demand or even suggest this before.
I'm going to retract my story because this is all hurting my head.
Early in the pandemic (April 2020) I started what became a long #Twitter thread on #gender #bias in academic #publishing.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1252981139855355904
Starting today, I'm stopping it on Twitter and continuing it on #Mastodon.
Here's a rollup of the complete Twitter thread.
https://resee.it/tweet/1252981139855355904
Here's a nearly complete archived version in the @waybackmachine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220908134128/https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1252981139855355904
Watch this space for updates.
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Free Software that I rely on. One per day.
Day 19:
PeerTube
PeerTube is the main federated video publishing platform, with an interface similar to YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, etc.
Videos are federated like other posts on the Fediverse, as are comments.
It supports many channels and playlists per user.
Discoverability is still a little weak, and the total volume is small compared to the corporate behemoths, but we do have Framasoft's "Sepia Search" service, and the PeerTube universe is growing.
Our PeerTube server is probably the 2nd most important web application I'm running on our server. This has become my primary publication point for both "Lunatics!" and "Film Freedom".
https://joinpeertube.org
https://sepiasearch.org/
Our own server:
https://tv.filmfreedom.net
#FreeSoftwareAdvent #PeerTube #Video #Publishing #Fediverse
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Film Freedom project channel page on our Film Freedom PeerTube site.
There's a top banner, avatar, and channel name. Below are videos listed from the project, including some of my experimental work.
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"More" page for the Film Freedom PeerTube site, with some stats and server info.
When the study confirms intuition:
"We find that the number of papers cited at least as well as those appearing in high-impact factor journals vastly exceeds the number of papers published in such venues."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003532
Decades on, academic journals are still useless as indicators of much of anything.
My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up.
The Writers Gift
https://buff.ly/t56tiGy
#writingcommunity
#BookIndustryNews
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I’d like to share a small publishing milestone.
‘Drystone - A Life Rebuilt’ has gone into a second print run.
And because publishing is famously opaque, and there are so many wildly unrealistic ideas out there about how it all works, here are the numbers in plain terms...
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Publishing #Reading #Authors #Books
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A grid of eight copies of the book 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' by Kristie De Garis arranged in three neat rows against a soft blush-pink and white background. The covers show an abstract composition of painted stone shapes in deep greens, golds, blues and black, with the title overlaid in bold black type.
Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AIhttps://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai
This will keep happening. For-profit academic publishers should never have been allowed to exist in the first place; those chickens are now coming home to roost.
In a notice posted to the [Bards And Sages Publishing] site, founder Julie Ann Dawson wrote that effective March 6, she was winding down operations to focus on her health and “day job” that’s separate from the press. “All of these issues impacted my decision. However, I also have to confess to what may have been the final straws. AI...and authors behaving badly,” she wrote.Closure announcement: https://www.bardsandsages.com/closure-announcement.html
#ChatGPT #GPT #LLaMa #Gemini #AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI #InformationOilSpill #Publishing #Fiction
What you're seeing here is that for most categories, there is a linear increase in the number of submissions to the category year-over-year up until the end of the data series in 2021. Computer science is dramatically different: its increase looks exponential, and it looks like its rate of increase may have accelerated circa 2017. The chart on the right, which is the same data shown proportional instead of as raw counts, suggests computer science might be "eating" mathematics starting around 2017.
2017 is around when generative AI papers started to appear in large quantities. There was a significant advance in machine learning published around 2018 but known before then that made deep learning significantly more effective. Tech companies were already pushing this technology. #OpenAI (the #GPT / #ChatGPT maker) was founded in 2015; GPT-2 was released in early 2019. arXiv's charts don't show this, but I suspect these factors play a role in the seeming phase shift in their CS submissions in 2017.
We don't know what 2022 and 2023 would look like on a chart like this but I expect the exponential increase will have continued and possibly accelerated.
In any case, this trend is extremely concerning. The exponential increase in number of submissions to what is supposed to be an academic pre-print service is not reasonable. There hasn't been an exponential increase in the number of computer scientists, nor in research funding, nor in research labs, nor in the output-per-person of each scientist. Furthermore, these new submissions threaten to completely swamp all other material: before long computer science submissions will dwarf those of all over fields combined; since this chart stops at 2021 they may have already! arXiv's graphs do not break down the CS submissions by subtopic, but I suspect they are in the machine learning/generative AI/LLM space and that submissions on these topics dwarf the other subdisciplines of computer science. Finally, to the extent that arXiv has quality controls in place for its archive, these can't possibly keep up with an exponentially-increasing rate of submissions. They will eventually fail if they haven't already (as I suggested in a previous post I think there are signs that their standards are slipping; perhaps that started circa 2017 and that's partly why the rate of submissions accelerated then?).
#arXiv #science #publishing #AI #ML #CS #computerscience
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arXiv submission and download stats are concerning [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
There should not be an exponential increase in the number of articles at any publication venue let alone arXiv. That is a sign that something is not right:https://arxiv.org/stats/monthly_submissions
Note: since arXiv does relatively minimal quality control and does not peer review, monthly submissions is roughly the same as monthly new articles. The trends should be similar anyway.
Concomitantly, there is an exponentially-increasing number of downloads from arXiv, suggesting that it's having an unmerited and outsized influence:
https://arxiv.org/stats/monthly_downloads
To my eye, it's the "computer science" category that's driving the exponential growth in submissions. All the other categories look like they're growing linearly, which is far more reasonable:
https://info.arxiv.org/help/stats/2021_by_area/index.html
Frankly I don't think arXiv is living up to its own standards:
arXiv is a forum for professional members of the scientific community, providing rapid distribution of new research.
Research articles are the primary content-type submitted to arXiv.From https://info.arxiv.org/help/moderation/index.html
I suspect the exponential growth in submissions is overwhelming their moderation, and that is leading to the meaning of "professional members of the scientific community" and "research article" sliding. I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with corporate research and corporate scientific publication, but this stuff I'm calling out is not that and the trends suggest this will get worse if arXiv doesn't act.
has been widely circulated, so much so that I've now seen it shared four times including from co-workers who are not in the technology sector. But that article is uncritically reporting a "pre-print" on arXiv that is a corporate press release.
This press release "reports" on internal corporate research that cannot be replicated. It takes a particular slant describing this work that should not survive peer review (it wouldn't survive the peer reviewer writing this post, that's for sure). It is 71 pages long, far longer than any legitimate scientific journal would accept (brevity is the soul of wit). Its list of works cited is full of other non-peer-reviewed arXiv press releases and URLs, which functions to juice the scientometrics of those non-peer-reviewed sources.
Overall it's a terrible piece of writing with obvious, fatal flaws for a piece of science communication, and that's before even getting into the substance.
arXiv is off the rails. It is being pumped full of "articles" like this, and science reporters are uncritically sharing them widely.
We need to stop including citations from anything in arXiv in scientometric data. Cites from arXiv should not be used in impact factor, h-index, i10-index, or any of these other statistics about scholarly output.
If we're going to count arXiv in these metrics, then we should count corporate whitepapers, press releases, product launches, PowerPoint presentations, and TED talks also.
#OpenScience #SciencePublishing #Publishing #Writing #Science
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Screen shot of a web page about a scientific article titled "The Evolution of Platform Scienc", by Philip Mirowski. There is some metadata I'm happy to share if you want it. Next to the title and metadata is a yellow box with the header "Purchase/rental options available" and a button for purchasing the article.