A tale of two restructuresRegular restructuring seems to be an occupational hazard of working in the publishing industry. It bring weeks or months of uncertainty over possible redundancies and changes to reporting lines and job descriptions. Worse still, the changes that are imposed often make little sense. We report on two restructuring exercises being carried out in Oxford, one at Macmillan and one at Pearson Schools. More... AW 2010-07-01 |
Editorial standards: Views from academiaSophie Huxley, Oxford College gardener, is the author of The Oxford Science Walk and Oxford Trees, both published by Huxley Scientific Press, a local publishing venture that she runs with branch member Eddie Mizzi. Sophie comes from a family of academics. Her father, Professor George Huxley, Emeritus Professor of Greek, Queen’s University, Belfast, and her aunt, Dr Margo Huxley, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, kindly agreed to comment on their perceptions of quality in academic publishing from their experience as readers, writers and reviewers. More... GH 2010-06-06 |