Blogs selected for Week December 14 to December 20, 2015
1. Will the impact framework fix the problems the research audit found? The results from the latest university research audit indicate that research in Australia is improving. Under the government’s latest reform of research funding, academics will be assessed not only on their quality of research through the ERA, but also on the economic, social […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week December 7 to December 13, 2015
1. Scholarly Publishing Demographic Survey Reveals Major Diversity Challenges In Scholarly Publishing #STMchallenges Laura Wheeler, in her post in the Digital Science Blog, discusses an analysis conducted by Digital Science, Fordham University School of Business, SSP, ALPSP, STM and CSE, which ran from December 2014 to January 2015. The survey shows that although there is […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week November 23 to November 29, 2015
1. Increasing the Scope of Researcher Engagement Through Technology It is an accepted reality that the role of scholarly publishers with respect to their ultimate customers, researchers, is changing. In 2012, Annette Thomas outlined her personal vision of the ways in which publishing, as we know it, should adapt to the changing face of digital […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week November 16 to November 22, 2015
1. Academic publications to become less important when funding university research The Turnbull government is set to overhaul the way university research is funded by dramatically downgrading the importance of publishing articles in little-read academic journals. Prime Minister Turnbull wants to end the “publish or perish” culture in which academics are pressured to focus on […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week November 9 to November 15, 2015
1. Dismantling the Stumbling Blocks that Impede Researcher Access to E-Resources The user experience of working with e-journals and ebooks in an academic setting has failed to keep up with changing practices and preferences for how researchers now expect to access the scholarly literature. Roger C. Schonfeld called attention to some of these limitations in […]
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