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EASE Guidelines Jubilee Article6 June 2020In May 2010 we published the first edition of the EASE Guidelines for Authors and Translators, and this month we are delighted to celebrate their 10th anniversary with a Jubilee article by their Editor, Sylwia Ufnalska. Sylwia has worked incredibly hard over these years to shape the contents, keep the the details and references current, […]
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EASE Virtual Conference Teaser29 May 2020It is just two weeks to go before our Virtual Conference. Our theme of ‘editors and editing in times of crisis’, will be timely and we hope to have some thoughtful insights to impart. We have four sessions: (see the conference pages for full information) 1. The realities of being an editor in a time […]
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Survey – Call for responses: Usage variation in academic English11 May 2020We are always happy to support research into areas that will shed light and reveal greater insights into the professions under the EASE umbrella, and this new survey falls well within our scope. PhD candidate Adrian Stenton, at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, and his colleague Dr Morana Lukač, are investigating copy-editors’ and proofreaders’ […]
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EASE Quick-Check Submission Table6 May 2020For authors, when preparing a scientific manuscript for submission to a journal, it can often be a time-consuming task to adjust formatting and style to comply with journal’s specific preferences; a requirement which creates additional work, and adds a non-scientific element to the review process which can influence acceptance. For editorial offices and editors, it […]
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In Memory of Jonathan Tennant27 April 2020In Memory of Jonathan Tennant1988-2020 It is with great sadness that we mourn the untimely death of Dr Jonathan (Jon) Tennant, from a traffic accident in Bali, Indonesia, on the early morning of April 9th, 2020. He was a friend to many of us at EASE, and we are devastated by his loss. The infectious […]
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ISMPP U webinar – Coronavirus (COVID-19): Its Impact on Publication Planning23 April 2020Our friends at the ISMPP invite EASE members, and the wider scholarly publishing community to attend a special 90-minute ISMPP U educational webinar – Coronavirus (COVID-19): Its Impact on Publication Planning – on Wednesday, April 29, at 11am EDT/4pm GMT. This informative and complimentary ISMPP U is OPEN TO ALL! Learn more about the webinar […]
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EASE Virtual Conference Announced!20 April 2020We are excited to announce that we will be holding a Virtual Conference on Friday, 12 June 2020. The theme of the event is ‘editors and editing in times of crisis‘, and it will be hosted on a Zoom webinar platform from 9.00am to 1.30pm (London time). In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and after […]
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Useful COVID-19 Research and Resources19 March 2020With the scale of COVID-19 infection and mortality rates increasing rapidly, and many of us becoming increasingly compelled to make changes to lifestyles to adapt to the virus, we thought we would share some important, useful, reliable and veriable evidence-based resources to help keep informed and understand the rapidly changing scientific knowledge base on the […]
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EASE 2020 conference 12-14 June 2020 – POSTPONED13 March 2020NOTICE REPOSTED FROM EASE WEBSITE https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/15th-ease-conference-valencia-2020/2020-conference-postponed/ In response to the fast moving coronavirus pandemic we have taken the decision to postpone the 2020 EASE conference until 2021. We hope that by delaying for a full year, and making an early decision, we can provide some clarity in what is a difficult situation for everyone. Our […]
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PEERE Nature paper encourages systematic study of peer review26 February 2020Illustration by David Parkins, Nature A group of authors involved in the PEERE project, lead by Flaminio Squazzoni, including several members from EASE Council and our community, have published a paper in Nature, titled Unlock ways to share data on peer review which calls for “Journals, funders and scholars [to] work together to create an […]
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EASE Environmental Policy and Manifesto25 February 2020We have published two Environmental statements on our website this week, which coincide with the themes of our conference this year on sustainability in editing. The first presents the EASE Environmental Policy, outlining the actions we are taking as an association to conduct ourselves with an awareness of environmental issues. Read that here: https://ease.org.uk/about-us/ease-environmental-policy/ We […]
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EASE journal European Science Editing goes diamond OA with ARPHA24 February 2020We are absolutely delighted to announce that European Science Editing (ESE) has been relaunched as a fully Open Access journal on the ARPHA platform, at the following url: https://ese.arphahub.com/ A press release has also been posted to the ARPHA Blog This move is part of a strategic relaunch of the journal to provide greater focus […]