We are excited to reveal the first of our plans towards our next online conference. Help us choose the theme for conference sessions by voting for your favorite from three shortlisted options suggested by our Council. bit.ly/ease2026poll

What's needed to maintain an effective editorial office in the age of misinformation? @maverick-os.bsky.social's Lynsey Haire covers takeaways from an @easeeditors.bsky.social panel, which spanned workflow structures, submission screening tools/processes, and reviewer engagement.

Journal Editors! Managing Editors! A call for 20 minutes of your time please, to contribute to this survey of editorial board management. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Have you read the latest EASE Update newsletter yet? it contains : 🌎 Details of our new LinkedIn showcases pages for several Regional Chapters and DEI community 📋 Survey on Editorial Board Practices 👥 Peer Review Infographics 🖥️ Upcoming webinars ➕...and more! sh1.sendinblue.com/ahdfghmkclpf...

EASE have contributed to an @editageinsights.bsky.social article for #OpenAccessWeek Read comments from @ivagaeditor.bsky.social, @dnjournals.bsky.social @roohighosh.bsky.social @rachinams.bsky.social and @hoohar.bsky.social on the meanings of community impact www.editage.com/insights/ope...

A new Viewpoint by Bor Luen Tang questions increasing gold OA in less wealthy nations as paradoxical to increasing APCs and funding constraints. Instead, he discusses phenomena of citations, peer review, and ‘mutually propagating publishing loop’ as alternative explanations doi.org/10.3897/ese....

From our Oslo poster exhibition, we share ReviewerAI: Transforming Peer Review Workflows Through AI-Driven Innovation, by Yusuf Sermet and Ibrahim Demir Access it in hi-res pdf, and read all the posters from our 18th Conference on our @scienceopen.bsky.social Collection: doi.org/10.14293/EAS...

This Thursday! Join us and STM for a session to discuss ways of reducing the publishing industry carbon footprint

This survey-based study assesses researchers’ familiarity with AI, their perceptions of benefits and challenges, ethical considerations, and expectations for future roles in the reviewing process. The paper is published open access, available to read in full from ESE, now: doi.org/10.3897/ese....

EASE Update Issue 7 is up and out! In this edition we announce our new Survey on Editorial Board Practices, several forthcoming webinars including our collaborative SDG-related event with STM, revisit our Peer Review Infographics (icymt), and more. Enjoy! sh1.sendinblue.com/ahdfghmkclpf...

Join us for what promises to be a fantastic session to understand what differences we can make to improving the efficiency, and reducing the environmental impact of our operations.

EASE is a signatory to the UN SDG Publishers Compact. Towards Goal 4: Quality Education, we provide free access to a range of materials and events of benefit to academics of all experiences, and all involved in the publishing industry. Browse our website to see what could help you ease.org.uk

Our October webinar features three presentations that address different aspects of good reporting practice: media guidelines for sensitive topics, Guidelines for Intersectional Analysis in Science and Technology (GIST), and tackling mass-produced science ease.org.uk/event/good-r... 1/4

On the EASE Digest today, we look at a new page of the Wiley website which responds to many FAQs and details their AI resources in the peer review process. ease.org.uk/2025/10/wile... #EASEdigest #AIinPeerReview

Starting tomorrow, 1st October, Part 2 of our rolling 8-module training package. Suitable for anyone involved in the academic oversight, management or planning of journals, and benefit all levels of experiences. There's still time to register - see our website for info ease.org.uk/ease-events/...

From our Oslo poster exhibition, the Runner Up in the Scholarly Publishing Process & Innovation category describes a toolkit to help faculty prepare and submit scholarly work to peer-reviewed journals, boosting the credibility and reach of nursing research. doi.org/10.14293/EAS...

A very thorough thread commenting on this article and the issues is raises

In this new ESE Viewpoint, @reeserichardson.bsky.social and Matt Spick help editors identify mass-produced research to reject them at the point of submission, reducing the burden on peer review, and the amount of poor-quality noise introduced to the published literature. doi.org/10.3897/ese....

For @peerreviewweek.bsky.social we share this poster presentation from the EASE Peer Review Committee, detailing their Guides and Infographics available from our PR Toolkit, Publications and Resources. See it in hi-res + more info on @scienceopen.bsky.social doi.org/10.14293/EAS... #PeerReview

Part II of the EASE Editorial School for Journal Editors begins in October. No need to take Part I first, you can start here with four modules to help your journals enhance their publishing strategy, visibility, impact, and editorial processes ease.org.uk/ease-events/...

In this new Editage video for @peerreviewweek.bsky.social, our Vice President, Iva Grabaric Andonovski shares her thoughts on whether AI can replace human peer reviewers. youtu.be/lnDmFaneuik?... #PeeReviewWeek #PRW25

A new @peerreviewweek.bsky.social short on the Editage YT channel, from EASE Vice-President Iva Grabaric Andonovski, answering the question 'Should AI Tools Used During Peer Review be Disclosed'? www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sNF... #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025

Touching on trials, reporting guidelines, and journal publishing/ editing - this @easeeditors.bsky.social webinar on 30.09. sounds very promising: ease.org.uk/event/ease-g... #NightshiftEditor #AcademicPublishing #RCTs

Day Two of the 12th PUBMET conference is streaming live in YouTube now Many of our colleagues from EASE Croatia are there, hosting the sessions in the latest developments in Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science www.youtube.com/live/wk5_3Fj... #pubmet #openscience

Join us next week, 16th September for a session discussing ethics sleuthing and image integrity in the age of generative AI with forensic meta-scientist René Aquarius and Council member Phill Jones. ease.org.uk/event/ease-w... #EASEevents #ImageIntegrity

New on the EASE Digest, a recent paper from the JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine, detailing the launch of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Advocacy Team and their strategy to promote transparency and inclusive publishing practices. ease.org.uk/2025/08/dive... #EASEdigest #DEI

On the EASE Digest, we highlight the new book from @samuelmoore.org tackling the infrastructures and integrity of the open access research publishing landscape. ease.org.uk/2025/09/publ... #EASEdigest #OpenAccess

Peer Review Week is approaching! We have two events during the week; Monday 15th - Peer Review Across Borders and Technologies: Localizing the EASE Toolkit in the AI Era and this session with Phill, on Thursday 18th - From red flags to real fixes: Can AI help clean up scientific publishing?

We are delighted to welcome forensic meta-scientist @deadneanderthals.bsky.social to the EASE webinar series, joining our Council member @phillbjones.bsky.social for a session discussing ethics sleuthing and image integrity in the age of generative AI ease.org.uk/event/ease-w...

More details have been added to our special Regional Chapter session for @peerreviewweek.bsky.social Speakers from EASE chapters will showcase resources from the Toolkit, how they support responsible, context-sensitive peer review across disciplines, languages, and regions. bit.ly/easeprw25

New to the EASE Digest, our Bookshelf Editor recommend the 'SPIRIT 2025 statement: updated guideline for protocols of randomized trials'. ease.org.uk/2025/08/spir... #EASEdigest #EASEbookshelf #SpiritStatement

Next Thursday, join Dr Evgeny Bobrov from the QUEST Center for Responsible Research, for a session on data sharing practices and policies common among academic journals. The session is free and open to anyone interested. ease.org.uk/event/ease-g... #EASEevents #EASEgermany #ResponsibleResearch

This new paper analyses the content of 130 review invitations from 52 journals over a three-year period. The results offer a useful standard and framework for templating emails to reviewers to improve the peer review process experience for reviewers, journals and authors. doi.org/10.3897/ese....

Issue 6 of our public EASE Update newsletter is out today. It features news from across the EASE community, previews of forthcoming events and training, recent publications, and details of our special Regional Chapter webinar for @peerreviewweek.bsky.social sh1.sendinblue.com/ah0schmkclpf...

This Thursday August 21, join our India Chapter for a free and open webinar delivering practical insights from experienced editors, with key skills and top tips to effectively manage editorial workflows. ease.org.uk/event/ease-i...

We are delighted to award the 'Community Engagement and Collaboration Posters' prize to EASE Ukraine for 'Fostering Changes in Ukrainian Academic Publishing Landscape. See the hi-res pdf and all the posters from our 18th Conference in our @scienceopen.bsky.social Collection doi.org/10.14293/EAS...

"The entire structure of science could collapse if this is left unaddressed" www.wsj.com/science/scie... @reeserichardson.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social Luis Amaral on the impact of paper mills

New in the Bookshelf section of the EASE Digest blog, we share a new study published in PNAS which provides further insights into the scale of the industrially-produced research papers from ‘paper mills’. @reeserichardson.bsky.social @jabyrnesci.bsky.social ease.org.uk/2025/08/frau...

Winner of our Scholarly Publishing Process and Innovation Posters' category at our Oslo Conference, this poster details approaches implemented by Editors of @ioppublishing.bsky.social journals to combat increasing threats from fake research. doi.org/10.14293/EAS...

Winner of the Scientific Posters category of our 2025 Conference Competition, this poster comments on the disparity of open access accessibility. Read the full abstract and see all posters from our Oslo Conference on our @scienceopen.bsky.social Collection page: doi.org/10.14293/EAS...

This new Viewpoint draws from the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines and US-Judicial contention with GenAI, to argue that journals should request the full text of each cited source along with submitted manuscripts, as a way to combat GenAi-faked references doi.org/10.3897/ese....

Following our Oslo Conference, we have added details of all sessions and posters to our Conferences Collection on @scienceopen.bsky.social Readers can now more easily browse all the materials, and contributors get these activities registered to their ORCID profiles bit.ly/easesoconfer...

A new paper in ESE investigates Moldovan conferences to examine the extent to which they match the markers of predatory conferences, and cautions against practices which blur the lines between acceptable and predatory. Read the full paper from the journal now: doi.org/10.3897/ese....

We are delighted to welcome Iryna Izarova to the EASE Council! Iryna is a Professor of Law, journal editor, Chair of EASE Ukraine, and the Regional Chapter Programme, and winner of two EASE Awards. See the full council for 2025-2027 on the EASE website: ease.org.uk/about-us/org...

This new article in European Science Editing surveys the attitudes to open access publishing of 1000 Croatian authors. Results highlight much similarity of general attitudes, but practical differences in adoption between STEM and SSH fields. doi.org/10.3897/ese.... #OpenAccess #OA

A fantastically clear and forthright discussion with the excellent Damien Riggs, on person-centred language and perspectives, authenticity, collaboration, allyship, accidental damage, authoring skills and techniques. youtu.be/0-uKZ_Gns2A #EASEediCommittee #EASEevents #TransLives #WritingSkills

This guest post in EASE Digest from our Conference Premier Sponsors, JAMS looks at why customised editorial support matters and the questions editors should be asking asbout their review platforms. ease.org.uk/2025/06/why-... #EASEdigest #PeerReview #EditorialManagement #JournalManagement

Join us from 11:30am UK time tomorrow, June 24, for a webinar with Prof. Damien Riggs A discussion of what it means to work and write in the field of trans studies, and how cisgender authors can write about trans lives in constructive and sustainable ways. ease.org.uk/event/ease-e...

We are adding all the posters from our Oslo Conference to our ScienceOpen proceedings collection. You can read more about our initiative in the latest EASE Update newsletter di2qt.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/mr/sh/SMJ...

Issue 5 of EASE Update, our bi-monthly public newsletter, is up and out now! We share some exciting news about our journal, update you on our ScienceOpen Conference collection, share our Peer Review Committee’s guidance document ‘How to Assess Peer Review Quality’ and much more bit.ly/EASEupdate5