nonnative english-speaking scholars have often been reported to be at a disadvantage vis-à-vis their english native counterparts when it comes to writing a publishable research article (ra). when they submit their manuscripts to english-language journals, they sometimes receive comments criticizing their faulty english. one area of difficulty for these authors is the grammaticalization of neutr...

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

For doctoral students, publishing in peer-reviewed journals is a task many face with anxiety and trepidation. The world of publishing, from choosing a journal, negotiating with editors and navigating reviewers’ responses is a bewildering place. Looking in from the outside, it seems that successful and productive academic writers have knowledge that is inaccessible to novice scholars. While ther...

It is widely known now that scholarly communication is in crisis, resting on an academic publishing model that is unsustainable. One response to this crisis has been the emergence of Open Access (OA) publishing, bringing scholarly literature out from behind a paywall and making it freely available to anyone online. Many research and academic libraries are facilitating the change to OA by establ...

this descriptive-survey study aims to identify the problems of publishing scientific journals in state universities and islamic azad universities. statistical population includes all academic journals the data of which is registered in www.magiran.com. required information were collected using a questionnaire. results of this research indicate that the problems of publishing scientific journals...

While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding “top” academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theo...