Olive Turn Press
A journal for careful records and suspiciously well-organised olives
Welcome to a small journal with a large respect for sources. We publish playful fictional demonstrations about scholarly publishing because rights, access, attribution, version context, accessibility, and evidence deserve a friendly introduction as well as a rigorous one.
The olive branch is our house metaphor: peace, friendship, life, longevity, and health are admirable ambitions; a working source locator is a very good start.
Issues
- Issue 1: The Olive Turn
Scratch-and-sniff markup, arboreal peer review, and other April-worthy proposals for scholarly communication. - Issue 2: The Olive Branch and the Honest Answer
Publisher-controlled AI retrieval, useful refusals, version-aware citations, and the careful separation of retrieval from model training.
Featured articles
- The Olive Branch Protocol: Trust Signals for Answers Outside the Journal Page
How a publisher-controlled answer retains its source, version, rights, and access context. - Footnotes at the Gate: Citations, Locators, and the Right to Check an AI Answer
What a reader needs to inspect a claim: a title, DOI, version, quotation boundary, and locator. - The Olive Oil Markup Language: Extending JATS XML for Sensory-Enhanced Scholarly Communication
Issue 1 highlight submitted to the JATS working group as a suggested standard improvement.
Every article signals its fictional status plainly, then gets on with the useful business: demonstrating how a scholarly record can remain inspectable, accessible, and governed wherever readers encounter it.