Category Archives: Academic publishing

A New Academic Journal Publishing Platform

For the last year I’ve been working on a new platform for publishing an open access academic journal. This is specifically motivated by the journal Communications in Cryptology, but ideally I’d like it to be useful for any journal that … Continue reading

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Why do we have volumes, issues, and page numbers?

Now that almost all academic publishing has moved online, there are a lot of assumptions that start to look silly with time. The whole notion of a “Periodical” doesn’t make much sense. Traditionally it meant articles that were bound together … Continue reading

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On peer review in academic publications

A friend of mine recently reviewed a number theory paper that is over 100 pages long. He found a critical error on page 52 that may invalidate the main result of the paper. This raises the question of what the … Continue reading

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