In December 2013, UC Press’s mission-driven, trans-disciplinary, open-access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene published its first article, ushering in its motto, “Open Science for Public Good.” In this blog post we pause to reflect and take note of some of the publication highlights fro
"I’ve really liked the editorial culture at Collabra: Psychology. Things like owning your decisions as editor... humility in your decision letters... and editing the paper the authors have written instead of the paper you would have liked them to have written."
Shortly after the WGA announcement, labor guilds in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom issued guidance to their own members, advising writers not to cross WGA picket lines.
" ...we want to reduce the degree to which editors’ and reviewers’ idiosyncratic tastes come into play, and we want to give equal recognition to incremental research, or work that helps correct the record, as we do to research that breaks new ground"
Advances in Global Health is an open-access, online-only journal from University of California Press and the UC Global Health Institute, which seeks to take a new approach to publishing research in the field of global health by aligning the journal with several of the United Nations Sustainable Deve
"We figured the best way to launch the journal would be to provide a survey of provocative pieces from figures known in the field (and representing different places within it, both geographically speaking and theoretically)"