Are Awards a Double-Edged Sword?
The Oscars have been awarded! But just how does winning an award affect the prizewinner? Not the way you would […]
9 years agoA space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
The Oscars have been awarded! But just how does winning an award affect the prizewinner? Not the way you would […]
9 years agoTrying to publish a paper in an academic journal can be a frustrating process for both the author and the […]
9 years agoIn the December issue editorial of Family Business Review, published online today, Professor Mike Wright, Imperial College and Professor Pramodita Sharma, […]
10 years agoMonographs 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.
10 years agoOpen movements focus on the consumption of information but neglect to focus on its mode of production, writes Ziyad Marar […]
10 years agoIn his chapter for Debating Open Access, a new publication from the British Academy, Chris Wickham considers the view from […]
10 years agoAcademic research is different in kind from industrial contract research where the funder determines the activity and therefore is entitled […]
10 years agoThere 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.
10 years agoIs 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?
10 years agoAll 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.
10 years agoThe opportunity for H&SS to reach much wider audiences who appreciate the value of their work generally, and to reach those specific people who will make important use of it is enormous.
10 years agoSimon Ball, Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow, discusses the dangers of Gold Route OA to the Humanities and scholarship in general.
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