Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
CVS to Stop Selling Tobacco Products: Major Policy Change
Wednesday’s headlines brought us the news that CVS stores will stop selling tobacco products by October 1st. As CVS is moving into […]
Why I Don’t — and You Should — Care About Open Access
Open access to research papers doesn’t mean much to researchers, argues Michael White, but the government hopes it’ll serve a greater public good.
Want to Avoid Getting Your Paper Desk-Rejected?
Trying to publish a paper in an academic journal can be a frustrating process for both the author and the editor. Jon […]
Don’t Block Academic Blogging, Celebrate It
Stephen Saideman argues that efforts to regulate blogging in order to preserve constructive debate instead shuts down a promising avenue for … constructive debate.
Mandela and his Metamorphosis at Robben Island
[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to welcome Wayne F. Cascio, University of Colorado-Denver and Fred Luthans, University of Nebraska, Lincoln as Guest […]
Surveying the Terrain of Science’s Public Outreach Past
The campaign to communicate the impact of the social sciences has been compared to the era of the Bodmer report. Here’s a quick primer on that 1985 effort and some of the history of publicizing science in the UK.
Help Readers Find Your Article
The importance of search engines Google and Google Scholar are the principal ways in which people will find your article online today. […]
