Publication Concerns

In Defense of the Edited Collection
Industry
June 27, 2020

In Defense of the Edited Collection

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Size Still Matters: Discoverability, Impact and ‘Big’ Journals
Impact
June 19, 2020

Size Still Matters: Discoverability, Impact and ‘Big’ Journals

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John Ioannidis Responds to His COVID-19 Critics
Higher Education Reform
May 15, 2020

John Ioannidis Responds to His COVID-19 Critics

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Should We Welcome “CRediT Check?”
Higher Education Reform
March 7, 2020

Should We Welcome “CRediT Check?”

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Academic Writing Needs More from Me, Myself and I

Academic Writing Needs More from Me, Myself and I

The move towards including the first person perspective is becoming more acceptable in academia, notes the University of Queensland’s Peter Ellerton, who adds, there are times when invoking the first person is more meaningful and even rigorous than not.

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Why Academic Writing is Dry and Boring by Necessity

Why Academic Writing is Dry and Boring by Necessity

The necessity of rigorous if uninspiring academic writing is perhaps best illustrated with the story of a prominent 18th-century intellectual named Franz Anton Mesmer. He believed that illnesses were caused by blockages that interfered with the healthy flow of magnetic fluid through the body.

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COPE Report Explores Publication Issues in HSS

COPE Report Explores Publication Issues in HSS

A new report from the Committee on Publication Ethics, or COPE, offers an intriguing way to look at the differences between academic disciplines: what do journal editors routinely identify as struggles?

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‘The Old Models Are Not Working’: A Librarian on the New Big Deal

‘The Old Models Are Not Working’: A Librarian on the New Big Deal

The academic publishing paradigm is changing, driven in large part by calls for open access to publicly funded research. In this second of two parts, the university librarian for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill explains the thinking behind of a pilot program UNC inked with a major academic publisher.

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Textbook Merger Papers Over One Learning Benefit

Textbook Merger Papers Over One Learning Benefit

As the educational reading landscape shifts to digital, Naomi Baron argues we must find proven strategies to help students become more aware of the best ways to read and study online – especially as regular printed textbooks gradually begin to disappear.

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Modernizing the Monograph Ecosystem Can Save Them From Extinction

Modernizing the Monograph Ecosystem Can Save Them From Extinction

The future of the academic monograph has been questioned for over two decades. At the heart of this ‘monograph crisis’ has been a publishing industry centred on the print publication of monographs and a failure and lack of incentives to develop business models that would support a transition to open digital monographs. In this post Mike Taylor argues that if monographs are to be appropriately valued, there is a pressing need to further integrate monographs into the digital infrastructure of scholarly communication. Failing this, the difficulty in tracking the usage and discovery of monographs online, will likely make the case for justifying further investment in monographs harder.

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UC Librarian Foresees Seismic Shift from Elsevier Showdown

UC Librarian Foresees Seismic Shift from Elsevier Showdown

In the wake of Elsevier shuttering access to its current journal articles at the University of California, the university librarian at UC-Davis reviews the context of the dispute and argues open access offers the best path for academia’s future.

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Examining Open Access and Commercial Success

Examining Open Access and Commercial Success

If higher fees result in fewer academics wanting to publish with a journal, then it seems likely when a journal introduces or increases its fees, it should see a reduction in the number of articles published. But researcher Shaun Khoo did not find any evidence that this was the case.

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