Charles Stewart

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Freelance scientific copy-editor.

You can read my irregular waffles at advogato.org/person/chalst/.

	883 reputation	bio	website	textproof.com/stewart	visits	member for	2 years, 5 months
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Jan 9	answered	Should freelance writers keep their online business separate from offline?
Jan 9	comment	Should freelance writers keep their online business separate from offline? I understood the qn's online/offline dichotomy to be about where the writing appears, not about how the freelancer makes themself visible.
Jan 1	comment	Journal subscription secrecy @jae: Thanks for the link, I've edited it in.
Jan 1	revised	Journal subscription secrecy agreement
Jan 1	comment	Journal subscription secrecy Right. E.g., Nature charges up to about 25x as much to libraries as it does to individual readers for some of its journals, and most decent journals are available free to members of one academic society or another. A point made in Darnton's article is that publishers and libraries negotiate for bundles of journals together.
Jan 1	comment	Journal subscription secrecy This is a little bit of a stretch, but it's submitted according to the premiss that information about how publishers get their money is always interesting to professional writers.
Jan 1	asked	Journal subscription secrecy
Dec 27	answered	Publishing and selling ebooks
Dec 27	answered	What is the key reference documentation and how should I cite BASH?
Dec 27	awarded	Commentator
Dec 22	comment	How would a source be referenced in the typical paper/book? Note that Chicago supports a mixed notes-with-reflist style. I think that Chicago is more common than CSE in physical science and engineering. Biomed is something else again.
Dec 21	comment	What are advantages/disadvantages to use a CC-license for your writings? @jae: There's much less of a correlation between journal expense and quality than you might think, mainly because many of the best journals are published by scholarly societies, which for the most part charge what they need, not what they can get. Open access seems to have run out of steam, because the biomed journals didn't go along with it.
Dec 21	revised	What are advantages/disadvantages to use a CC-license for your writings? add point
Dec 21	awarded	Teacher
Dec 21	answered	What are advantages/disadvantages to use a CC-license for your writings?
Dec 21	awarded	Editor
Dec 21	comment	At what point does an author deal with an editor? +1 Useful question: the anti-editor tone has worked out well as a foil for the responses.
Dec 21	revised	At what point does an author deal with an editor? answer more of question
Dec 21	answered	At what point does an author deal with an editor?
Dec 21	comment	At what point does an author deal with an editor? at least three different people should be looking over your manuscript to look for ways to improve it - Back in the good old days, that was true. Today, publishers try to get away with less, except if they are using superior editing to mark themselves out. But a serious publisher should have both an assigned copy-editor and the project editor work through your text.