Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
A recent Ipsos-Mori survey reveals the crucial role that social science has to play in modern democracy, a role which is frequently sabotaged.
Social scientists have nothing to fear from the impact agenda, but must be more willing to talk to “strangers” such as the government in order to realise their full value – a talk by Prof. John Brewer
Monographs are an intrinsically important mode of academic production and must not be sacrificed on the altar of open access, argues Nigel Vincent in Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy.
Open movements focus on the consumption of information but neglect to focus on its mode of production, writes Ziyad Marar in Debating […]
Open Access (OA) is not about abandoning peer review but it does provide the opportunity to rethink its role and our methods, […]
The issue of OA is technically, culturally and politically complex and deserves careful engagement by all scholars, writes Stephen Curry in Debating Open […]
In his chapter for Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy, Chris Wickham considers the view from Humanities and […]
Academic research is different in kind from industrial contract research where the funder determines the activity and therefore is entitled to decide […]