Registration is open for our online Autumn Symposium 🍂 on Tues 26 November:
Al & digital tools in scholarly publishing 🤖💻⚙️

See more: https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/autumn-symposium/
Register here: https://ease.org.uk/autumn-symposium-sponsors-2024/autumn-symposium-booking-form/
EASE & Sister Society members (CIEP/ISMTE/MET/NEaT/SENSE): £90 🧑‍🤝‍🧑
Non-members: £180
Those working in LMICs may apply for a free sponsored place. 🌍
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Should journal articles name the handling editor?

James Butcher argues: "We are now at a point where editors, at the very least, need to be named on published papers, especially on high volume journals ... We need editors to take public ownership of the papers that they accept for publication." https://ck.journalology.com/posts/journalology-97-red-vs-green

#PublicationEthics #Transparency #Responsibility #JournalEditing #JournalPublication #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity

"COMPLAINT against Elsevier, B.V., International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers, John Does 1 through 50, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Sage Publications, Inc., Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA, Taylor & Francis Group, Ltd., Wolters Kluwer N.V."

Neuroscientist Lucina Uddin is suing major scientific publishers for antitrust breaches for allegedly colluding not to pay peer reviewers.
https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/55069050/Uddin_v_Elsevier,_BV_et_al
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/elsevier-other-publishers-hit-with-peer-review-services-lawsuit?context=search&index=0

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It's not too late to submit your feedback on the draft of our Peer Review Committee's Recommendations on Use of Al in Scholarly Communication! 🤖🎓📢

Responses are voluntary and may be submitted anonymously until Monday, 15th September. ⌛

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9dVTje9YZ0HQJzsPYaMUzfct08Oq9f4o6tm78cE9N-3N1bQ/viewform?pli=1

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Reporting on a survey of Croatian researchers' perspectives on open access publishing, Lea Škorić noted that the surveyed authors don't use acceptance rate as a criterion for journal selection.

She quips, "They're clearly very confident about their submissions".

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EASE Update, the new bi-monthly newsletter from the European Association of Science Editors, is out now on LinkedIn and our new mailing list.

Each issue will highlight a few activities from EASE, our members, and our wider circle, sharing new developments, helpful details, and insights to support every Editorial role in the research publishing cycle.

Like and subscribe!
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ease-update-issue-1-easeeditors-jeqge

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Recommendations on Use of AI in Scholarly Communication

Our Peer Review Committee invites comments and suggestions on the draft of their new Peer Review Toolkit entry: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WmBratJW1UovKxTEqfPjM8iMeCaAKpRI5VYLxdYkXrs/edit?usp=sharing

Responses may be submitted anonymously till 15 Sept via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9dVTje9YZ0HQJzsPYaMUzfct08Oq9f4o6tm78cE9N-3N1bQ/viewform?usp=send_form
We ask organisations or research groups to submit a single response.

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The new EASE Interactive Checklist for Submitting Authors combines the EASE Authors' Contributions & Conflict of Interest Disclosure form with the EASE Ethics Checklist for Authors into a single, more convenient version with tick boxes, text fields, and updated questions.

Read the editorial in our journal ESE for details, and download the form for use in your own journals.

https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e129735

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