tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456348657596914237.post3293352998876925626..comments2024-03-14T09:06:12.900-04:00Comments on Eco-Evo Evo-Eco: The secret lives of manuscriptsBen Hallerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875404974157070805noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456348657596914237.post-66905494692390424692017-10-14T11:22:21.239-04:002017-10-14T11:22:21.239-04:00Neat post, and I’ll raise a toast to University of...Neat post, and I’ll raise a toast to University of Chicago Press’s and American Naturalist’s fine “artisinal, small-batch approach to scientific publishing” as I saw it called over at DE. It’s not an approach that can work for all society published journals, but certainly produces a fine product and makes the case well to “support your society journal (especially if not published by a big lucrative conglomerate).” <br /> However, one “drawback” of the American Naturalist hands-on, in house copyediting approach may be that they might less likely to publish new species through spellchecker taxonomy and evolution. This is where the big publishing conglomerates with their offshore or multi-discipline copyeditors can shine. For instance, “Chironomus dilutus” is an aquatic insect. Through the modern miracle of spellchecking and autocorrection, “C. dilutus” was transmorgrified in at least 80 published articles to “Chironomus dilutes.” The latter is a two-word sentence, rather than a species binomial.<br /> Curious, American Naturalist was not among the list of journals that I found accelerating the pace of evolution through automated copy editing.<br /><br />More at: https://cmebane.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/the-curse-of-journal-copy-editing/<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com