ISMTE Recap: Open Access, Sense About Science USA, and Preprints | Technica Editorial Services

"Last week, the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors held its annual meeting in Denver. The event marked a 10-year anniversary for ISMTE, and organizers rose to the occasion, packing the schedule full of thoughtful, engaging presentations on topics that were relevant at both the industry and the individual publisher levels.

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In addition to addressing how science is talked about, speakers at this year’s conference tackled many of the hot topics currently defining the direction of the publishing industry. Mike Hepp, a presenter from Sheridan Journal Services, proposed that the days of working on manuscripts and reviews offline using traditional software may be coming to an end as more submission sites begin to offer integration with online authoring tools like Authorea and Overleaf. In another presentation, the editor-in-chief of PLOS One explored open access publications, how the concept of open access has evolved since its inception (when there was concern about its long-term impact on scholarly publishing), and what we can expect from open access in the future. Finally, with the rising popularity of preprint servers and the pressure researchers face to get their work into the hands of readers more quickly than the publication process might allow, experts from Crossref and Preprint.org shared some of the ethical considerations that go along with preprint papers, including how they can affect citations, their relationship to the published version of the work, and how poor science in preprints might be handled."