Category: 2015
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July 6, 2015
Returning plastic to oil
Plastic may have been the wonder invention of the 20th century, but we all know its tenacious lifespan is causing havoc throughout the planet’s ecosystems. It’s estimated that only 8 percent of the world’s plastic is currently recycled. Traditional plastic recycling is limited to certain types of plastic and often converted into new plastic-based products. However, an … Read more
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July 4, 2015
The most prevalent vertebrate on the planet is one you’ve never seen
While land habitat makes up less than 1 percent of our biosphere, scientists put the ocean’s share at more than 99 percent. So it’s no surprise that new findings put the tiny bristlemouth, a fish living at the middle depths which glows in the dark and has needle-like fangs, as the most numerous vertebrate on … Read more
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June 6, 2015
OSE has the loveliest editors.
At Oxford Science Editing, we only recruit editors with PhD qualifications or medical degrees, and substantial subsequent experience in their respective fields. Our experience over the last decade is that editors can be trained, but what sets our edits apart from other language optimisation companies is the invaluable insights into authors’ work that laboratory or … Read more
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November 17, 2014
Why edit a scientific manuscript?
…for many reasons, which we will detail over posts to follow. However, sharp-eyed OSE editor, Dr James Allen, picked up a blog post about a particularly awkward editorial slip in this week’s Slate blog: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/11/11/_crappy_gabor_paper_overly_honest_citation_slips_into_peer_reviewed_journal.html. Once identified by Retraction Watch, the paper was pulled from the online edition of the journal Ethology, and is being … Read more
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November 7, 2014
Finding editorial expertise at Oxford Science Editing
It’s been a busy couple of months here at OSE with the start of the new academic year and the continued development of our new website. The final touches are now being made to the latter, and we have been proudly adding the details of our new editors to the site: http://oxfordscience.wpengine.com/our-editors/. Oxford Science Editing … Read more
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August 29, 2014
Welcome to the OSE blog
It is over 5 years since Oxford Science Editing was conceived in rather humble surroundings by one editor who was tired of watching large companies maximise profits at the expense of the authors and editors. OSE has now grown into a large company itself, but those who work here have never lost the original underpinning … Read more