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 […]
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 […]
Martin Paul Eve considers how OA might influence quality control
Open Access (OA) is not about abandoning peer review but it does provide the opportunity to rethink its role and our methods, […]
Happy Fourth of July!
Happy Fourth of July from your friends at SAGE Publications! While you’re getting ready for a relaxing holiday, we hope you enjoy […]
Stephen Curry explores dimensions of open access
The issue of OA is technically, culturally and politically complex and deserves careful engagement by all scholars, writes Stephen Curry in Debating Open […]
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 […]
Yes, Looks Do Matter in the Workplace
An article recently published in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly found that hotel customers prefer physically attractive front desk employees because they “increase the […]
Scientists Take Their Concerns to Capitol Hill
A group of Maryland-based scientists visited Capitol Hill on Friday, June 14th to talk about the impact of diminished federal funding for science, […]
