When I was a professor, I had no idea that copy editors existed until I published a book and worked with the press’s freelance editor. This occurred around the same time that I realized academia had ...

The Division of Surgical Oncology’s Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., has been asked to serve on the editorial board for the journal, PLOS ONE, as an academic editor. PLOS ONE academic editors form an ...

I became an academic editor by accident. In 2015, an acquaintance asked if I was up for some last-minute proofreading. He was an adjunct professor and the sole author on a short article. His revisions ...

The editor-in-chief of an academic journal said he had been fired for sharing a satirical article published by The Onion about people dying in Gaza facing backlash for not condemning Hamas. Michael ...

Microsoft has upgraded its 365 Copilot to take direct actions in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, shifting from a passive suggestion tool to an active collaborator. The change could streamline academic ...

Can scholars build a better version of Wikipedia? Larry Sanger, a co-founder who has since become a critic of the open-source encyclopedia, intends to find out. This month Mr. Sanger announced the ...