Category Archives: S&P

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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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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Time to Decision at S&P

Posted on July 11, 2009 by kvf

[Crossposted from the S&P Editors Blog] We now have three major articles published in S&P and one commentary. We have two articles forthcoming after very minor revisions. We have six articles where we are waiting for major revisions. We have … 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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S&P Update

Posted on May 23, 2009 by kvf

Semantics & Pragmatics is well and thriving: we just published an article by Emmanuel Chemla on “Universal Implicatures and Free Choice Effects: Experimental Data” and will very soon publish a major paper on “Local Contexts” by Philippe Schlenker. Other articles … Continue reading →

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MIT adopts Open Access Policy

Posted on March 19, 2009 by kvf

[Update: Official MIT press release, The Tech, Peter Suber] Yesterday afternoon, the MIT Faculty voted unanimously in favor of an Open Access Policy. All scholarly articles written by MIT Faculty from now on will come with a non-exclusive license that … Continue reading →

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