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 […]
Altmetrics Aren’t Always So ‘Alt’ – Ask the Developing World
The Web of Science and its corresponding Journal Impact Factor are inadequate for an understanding of the impact of scholarly work from developing regions, argues Juan Pablo Alperin. The altmetrics community should engage with scholars from developing regions to ensure the new metrics do not continue to cater to well-known and well-established networks.
UPDATED: Social Science Advocates Uniting to Oppose FIRST
Thursday’s mark-up of a bill that nearly cuts the National Science Foundation’s social science spending in half is stirring up the academic community.
State of the Stacks: Academic Libraries in a Digital Age
The latest iteration of a report on college and university libraries finds an institution with a clear sense that change is afoot but a slightly cloudier feel for how to address it.
Weekly Overview of Social Science News
Launch of the World Social Science Blog | IPSA | Political Science News – News ⋅ sarah.veilleux.poulin The International Social Science Council […]
Snooping Professor, Friendly Don? The Ethics of Learning Analytics
Where should we draw the line between normal data gathering about university students–with the intent of helping them, of course–and outright intrusiveness?
A Modest Proposal to Improve Value for Money at Universities
King’s College London’s Alexandre Afonso looks at the so-called marketization of higher education with disdain–not because of its advent but because it hasn’t gone far enough.
Look in the Mirror to Find Social Science’s Champion
Addressing the value of social science, Skip Lupia argues it’s absolutely fair for Congress to hold the disciplines’ feet to the fire, and absolutely necessary for researchers themselves to come to their own defense.
‘Value for Money’ Is Not the Same as Quality in Higher Ed
In the past 15 years and across successive governments in the United Kingdom, the concept of value for money has been internalized throughout higher education. Here, the author of “Consuming Higher Education: Why Learning Can’t Be Bought” outlines why it is a problem to use student choice and value for money as a means of holding universities to account.
