Category Archives: Publishing

Google Scholar Blog

Posted on July 3, 2010 by kvf

Google Scholar Blog Looks like a good new resource, if they keep it going. Two useful posts so far.

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On citing well

Posted on January 27, 2010 by kvf

[Crossposted from S&P Editors Blog] The journal Nature Chemical Biology has an editorial that is well worth reading and pondering for other fields as well: 2010. On citing well. Nature Chemical Biology 6:2. p.79. doi:10.1038/nchembio.310. Unfortunately, the editorial is behind … Continue reading →

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Another article out

Posted on January 26, 2010 by kvf

To add to yesterday’s announcement, S&P just published its third article of this year: Rick Nouwen: Two kinds of modified numerals, doi:10.3765/sp.3.3. Keep on rolling.

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Banner Year for S&P

Posted on January 25, 2010 by kvf

[Reposted from S&P Editors Blog] Today marks the start of what we hope will be a banner year for our journal. We just published two articles: a main article by Sigrid Beck on “Quantifiers in than-clauses” a commentary by Uli … Continue reading →

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Update: Must … Stay … Strong!

Posted on January 21, 2010 by kvf

Thony and I are thrilled that our article “Must … Stay … Strong!” is to appear in Natural Language Semantics. The article is in production and a DOI has already been assigned but is not functional yet, DOI:10.1007/s11050-010-9058-2. The latest … Continue reading →

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Color

Posted on October 30, 2009 by kvf

[Crossposted from the S&P Editors Blog:] Here’s a reproduction of a figure from a recent article in Mind and Language by Pietroski et.al.: And here is a reproduction a figure from a recent article in Semantics and Pragmatics by Chemla: … Continue reading →

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Peeve

Posted on August 4, 2009 by kvf

A paper I reviewed (three rounds) just appeared. It contains no acknowledgments, no thanks to the reviewers. The editor of the journal did not write to the reviewers to announce their decision to publish the paper (which I had whole-heartedly … Continue reading →

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Rich Meta-Data in S&P’s PDFs

Posted on July 14, 2009 by kvf

[Crossposted from the S&P Editors Blog] We just rolled out a major upgrade to the PDFs published in our journal Semantics and Pragmatics. We already had extensive hyper-linking in the articles and in the bibliographies. Now, our PDFs sport rich … Continue reading →

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S&P publishes “Local Contexts” by Schlenker

Posted on July 6, 2009 by kvf

Semantics & Pragmatics just published a major article by Philippe Schlenker on “Local Contexts”. Quite a few other articles are in various stages of revisions. But we can always deal with more. Why don’t you join the revolution and submit … Continue reading →

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The Decline of Civilization Again

Posted on July 1, 2009 by kvf

In today’s Nature: The pleasure and importance of printed journals Sir I am shocked to read in Nature News online that the American Chemical Society intends to stop all personal subscriptions to its printed journals by 2010, and to start … Continue reading →

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