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2025/07/29

About the Obon holiday

We will close from Aug 13th (Wed) to Aug 15th (Fri) for the Obon holiday. For urgent requests, please email [email protected] with ’URGENT’ included in the subject line. For translation requests, we are unable to deal with these during the holiday - please contact us from Aug 18th (Mon)...

2025/05/01

About the Golden Week holiday

We will close from May 3rd (Sat) to May 6th (Tue). For urgent requests during this time, please email [email protected] with ‘URGENT’ in the subject line. Enquiries regarding translation orders and correspondence for billing will be handled when the office reopens.

2024/12/18

Business schedule for the year end and New Year holidays

We will be open until 18:00, December 27th (Friday), and will resume normal business from January 6th (Monday) in the New Year. If you have an urgent request for English proofreading during the holiday period, please email us at [email protected], and add 'URGENT’ in the subject field. Please note that...

2024/12/10

FYI - Reviewer fraud

Pre-publication peer reviewer has so many problems. Here's something new - financial fraud.

2024/08/01

About Obon holiday

About the Summer ‘Obon' holiday We will close from Aug 10th (Sat) to Aug 15th (Thu) for the ‘Obon' holiday. For urgent requests, please email [email protected] including ‘URGENT’ in the subject title. Regarding translation, we are unable to provide this service during the holiday.

2024/07/30

ChatGPT writes the first sentence of an ElsevierConnect article.

AI and LLMs have arrived and academic publishing has been changed forever. Most journals accept the use of AI. Elsevier, for example, states: "Our policies are clear that LLMs can be used in the drafting of papers as long as it is declared by the authors on submission." But accidents...

2024/05/14

When is a key word not a key word? When it is a Keyword. Fun with Author Guidelines.

Time and again we experience discrepancies, contradictions and a simple lack of clarity in the Instructions to Authors published by journals. Here, from a journal published by Wiley, are the requirements for a paper's title:

2024/04/18

About the Golden Week holiday

We will close from May 3rd (Fri) to May 6th (Mon). For urgent requests during this time, please email [email protected] with ‘URGENT’ in the subject line. Enquiries regarding translation orders and correspondence for billing will be handled when the office reopens.

2023/12/19

‘The language needs to be improved’ Part 2: A peer in science, but not in language.

We previously reported the problem of reviewer comments that the writing of a paper is poor and needs to be improved, when no such need in fact exists – the language is fine (https://dmed.co.jp/en/blog/how-to-handle-the-language-needs-to-be-improved-reviewer-comments). We described the nuisance of such comments, and suggested a workflow for how to deal with...

2023/08/01

About the 2023 Obon holiday

We will close from Aug 11th (Fri) to Aug 15th (Tue) for Japan's Obon holiday. For urgent requests during this period, please contact us by email to [email protected] with ‘URGENT’ in the subject line. Please note that we are unable to deal with translation requests during the holiday...
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