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 […]
Why I Don’t — and You Should — Care About Open Access
Open access to research papers doesn’t mean much to researchers, argues Michael White, but the government hopes it’ll serve a greater public good.
Want to Avoid Getting Your Paper Desk-Rejected?
Trying to publish a paper in an academic journal can be a frustrating process for both the author and the editor. Jon […]
Don’t Block Academic Blogging, Celebrate It
Stephen Saideman argues that efforts to regulate blogging in order to preserve constructive debate instead shuts down a promising avenue for … constructive debate.
Mandela and his Metamorphosis at Robben Island
[Editor’s Note: We are pleased to welcome Wayne F. Cascio, University of Colorado-Denver and Fred Luthans, University of Nebraska, Lincoln as Guest […]
Surveying the Terrain of Science’s Public Outreach Past
The campaign to communicate the impact of the social sciences has been compared to the era of the Bodmer report. Here’s a quick primer on that 1985 effort and some of the history of publicizing science in the UK.
Help Readers Find Your Article
The importance of search engines Google and Google Scholar are the principal ways in which people will find your article online today. […]
Should the Safety Net Fly on Autopilot?
The safety net cushioned the U.S. economic fall remarkably well, suggest a panel of distinguished academics. Next recession it ought to deploy automatically, they add.
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.
