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 […]
How to Sustain a Publishing Career
In the December issue editorial of Family Business Review, published online today, Professor Mike Wright, Imperial College and Professor Pramodita Sharma, University of […]
Nigel Vincent reflects on the Open Access monograph challenge
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.
Ziyad Marar on the Creation of Scholarly Knowledge in the Digital Age
Open movements focus on the consumption of information but neglect to focus on its mode of production, writes Ziyad Marar in Debating […]
Chris Wickham Considers OA in the UK and International Environment
In his chapter for Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy, Chris Wickham considers the view from Humanities and […]
Robin Osborne on why open access makes no sense
Academic research is different in kind from industrial contract research where the funder determines the activity and therefore is entitled to decide […]
Who Really, Really Wants Open Access?
There is broad agreement is the desirability of wider access by readers to scholarly journal articles. There is less agreement on who these imagined readers might be.
Open Access and the Privatisation of Knowledge
Is OA the flip side to privatisation of Higher Education? Is there a way in which OA is a means of justifying the economic inaccessibility of HE by providing a public good?
How can textbooks further student engagement?
All criticism of the genre notwithstanding, textbooks do have a central role to play in turning sociology students into sociologists. Sometimes I do wonder, however, whether it is time to re-invent the textbook.
