Do you work with #OpenAccess #journals? Are you setting up a new journal? Are you training a team?

🧰 The OA Journals Toolkit provides guidance for new and established #OA journals to navigate the rapidly changing scholarly publishing landscape #OASPA #DOAJ

https://oajournals-toolkit.org

I've been rejected again. Should I get a PhD?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/09/rejection-letter/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

People tend to look at peer-reviewed journals as a sign of credibility. I've not written about the nonsense of peer review, but these are unadulterated gatekeeping mechanisms antithetical to knowledge dissemination.

#philosophy #protocol #rejection #notice #credentials #journals #credibility #gatekeeping #peerreview #bollox #zenodo #philpapers #writing #letters #blog

The Am vs Have ontology is not just an academic exercise.

🤔 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/19/cold-grammar-and-the-quiet-gatekeeping-of-philosophy/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

It has repercussions in peer-reviewed articles. We're taught that peer review is a gold standard, but it's orthodox gatekeeping over quality control. Referees have a narrow window into their own methods, so they reject those with counter or even hybrid perspectives.
#philosophy #journals #peerreview #quality #gatekeeping #access #academic #standards #orthodox #control #perspective #blog #podcast

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Gatekeeping a peer review metaphor

New Sculpture Journal Special Issue – Monuments in Conversation: Westminster Abbey in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Liverpool University Press.
Read the Q&A and browse this new issue online 👇
https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/12/01/monuments-in-conversation-inside-the-westminster-abbey-special-issue-of-sculpture-journal/ #globalmuseum #sculpture #journals

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New Sculpture Journal Special Issue – Monuments in Conversation: Westminster Abbey in the Long Eighteenth Century

Ygdrasil is the first online literary journal, first published in 1993.

You might find the editor on Facebook and at Academia.edu.

#zine #zines #journals #poetry #literature #ygdrasil