Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Take the Survey: SAGE Explores Impact of Academic Research Outside Academe
SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, is encouraging social and behavioral science researchers to take a short survey on how they approach research that makes an impact outside of academia. Results of the survey are for research purposes only will be reported publicly in a future white paper.
Does the Business Model for Academic Publishing Promote Scholarly Progress?
The the latest Questions & Unanswers About Social Innovation seminar series put on by the Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation examined if the business model of academic publishing helps or hinders scholarly progress.
Will Artificial Intelligence Foster Plagiarism?
At the moment, little guidance, policy or oversight is available regarding technology, AI and academic integrity for teachers and educational leaders.
What Was at Stake in University of Florida-Professor Testimony Dust-up?
When the University of Florida barred three of its professors from serving as paid experts in a Florida voting rights case it […]
Librarian Survey Focuses on Embedding ‘In Life of the User’
The report ” Librarian Futures: Charting Librarian–Patron Behaviors and Relationships in the Networked Digital Age,” follows from a survey of 4,000 librarians and patrons and synthesizes those survey results with usage data from Lean Library, data from a range of librarian and library stakeholder interviews, and contributions from partners scite, Springshare, OpenAthens and OCLC.
Librarians’ Survey Addresses the ‘Virtual Reality’ of Conference-Going
Texas A&M’s Sarah Dennis surveyed librarians and their conference -going thoughts with an aim is to find “multiple ways to make conferences better for everyone, in-person or virtually.”
In Praise of Those ‘Less Prestigious’ Journals
Shannon Mason and Margaret K. Merga argue that researchers should adopt more careful citation practices, as a means to broaden and contextualise what counts as ‘prestigious’ research and create a more equitable publishing environment for research outside of core anglophone countries.
NAS Creates Council to Address Research Integrity and Trust
A new blue-ribbon council convened by the United States’ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine aims to tackle questions about nettlesome issues like conflict of interest, measuring impact and handling retractions.
