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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 13h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · 8h

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 13h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 3d

39 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2025-2026. See details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search. 🌏📊 Now 453 entries.

A screencap of the introductory text for the webpage "East Asia-related Job market Data in Progress (2025-2026)," which showcases job data information in East Asian Studies.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Sep 7

But, your open access journal will never be as highly ranked as the corporate managed journals. That's because the ranking system primarily serves corporate interests and is an illusionary measurement of "impact," which can't really be quantified.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you go clean and start a new journal, I'd recommend getting listed in doaj.org as a first step. Also, assigning dois yourself through a service like www.crossref.org will help visibility of articles across the web.

Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ

DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone...

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you could get out of your agreements with these big companies and move the journal to open access along with back issues, that would help with rankings. It is the journal that is ranked, not the company. They just provide the infrastructure and marketing that helps the ranks.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Sep 7

It is still possible to do this today, but you will have to the marketing, finance, and technical aspects of publishing yourself. This might take some $$, but mostly it requires a lot more time in addition to editing. That's why most editors prefer to outsource the work to companies like T&F.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Sep 7

We have been doing this for decades. Thanks to the foresight of our predecessors, our journals and books were made available open access online back in the 90s. Having a long history of online availability, allowed us to be listed in indices and databases like JSTOR.

Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · Sep 7

I was just talking to a colleague today about bypassing the publishing industry. We do all the unpaid labour anyway, and we don't get paid for the content, and it's going to be sold to "ai" companies anyway, so let's just make books ourselves, slap ISBN's on them, and then put them on our CV's.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Sep 7

Authors, read this thread!

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Aug 26

The nail in the coffin for print publications.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 25

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Aug 21

KDPAmazon is now telling us that our book is in Dutch, so we should change the metadata to Dutch and select “Dutch” in the language options. Dear Readers, our book doesn’t include a single word in Dutch.

AI customer service in action.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Aug 18

Absolutely losing my mind trying to deal with @awscloud.bsky.social support. There doesn’t seem to be any humans working there anymore.

JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Aug 1

It’s August! Which means we are on summer break. Which means we can finally get some work done. Spoiler alert: we will be too busy to get any work done.

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Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social · Jul 31

How it feels to finish a journal issue.

a man in a sweater is eating a piece of food from a plate

Alt: a man in a sweater is eating a piece of food

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Jul 30

In case anyone else asks:

Yes, the date of the issue is 2024.

Yes, we are late.

Yes, we are now back on schedule, and the next publication will be the 2025 volume.

Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · Jul 30

Table of Contents:

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Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · Jul 30

The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social ✨50th anniv issue✨ abt past, present, & future of 🇯🇵 religious studies is out!

🙏Paul Swanson, Hayashi Makoto, Kawahashi Noriko, Keller Kimbrough, Emi Foulk Bushelle, @orionklautau.bsky.social @jolyonbt.bsky.social @aikerots.bsky.social

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Jul 13

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Elizabeth Chin @labspeceth.bsky.social · Jul 12

Getting some of my editorial mojo back. NOTE: citing relevant literature is not the same thing as laying out a compelling argument or posing a provocation to the discipline.

JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Jun 29

Never post unpublished materials on such sites. Doing so not only disqualifies the manuscript for publication in a journal or volume, but it means your work is unprotected and can be poached by anyone with access to that site.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Jun 29

We have been contacted a few times by prospective authors asking if they could submit a manuscript that they had already posted to the account on the site. Of course, the answer is no you cannot submit the manuscript because you already self-published it on this site.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Jun 29

I confirmed it was fake, and contacted the site in question, asking them to remove these copyright violating documents. They said they would “send a notification to the author, but it was not their responsibility.”

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Jun 29

The committee thought it looked suspicious because the content had nothing to do with Japanese religions. It turns out, the applicant photoshopped our header onto an unpublished manuscript and claimed we had published it. They did this with three or four manuscripts with the JJRS and NIRC headers.

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Jun 29

A couple years ago we received a message about an article posted on the site discussed below. The chair of a hiring committee wanted to confirm that an applicant had published an article with us, as they claimed on their CV. The CV included a link to the applicants account on that site.

Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social · Jun 25

Don’t want it, didn’t approve or ask for it, misconstrues my thesis, says my name wrong, makes weird jokes about sushi pizza and my area of expertise in a British man’s voice. Sooo do I delete my account now? What is it even good for anymore #AcademicSky

Screenshot of an email from Academia.edu announcing that the platform fed my article”Do Kentucky Kami Drink Bourbon? Exploring Parallel Glocalization in Global Shinto Offerings” to an AI and generated a <5 minute “podcast” based on the content

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Alban Massie s.j. @dirnrt.bsky.social · Jun 7

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Jun 6

Jacynthe Tremblay, < L ’ éthique aporétique de Nishida >

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JJRS + NIRC @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social · Jun 6

Tomoaki Yamada, < La communauté existentielle entre le mort et le vivant chez Tanabe Hajime et des liens continus >

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