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Prof Alice Roberts: 'Public engagement should be part of academic life' - video
Alice Roberts, professor of public engagement in science at Birmingham University and BBC TV presenter, discusses society's evolving view of science and how universities must get better at explaining it.
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Publishers and Georgia State See Broad Implications in Copyright Ruling
Report of radical decision by US District Court judge on major copyright case brought by publishers, inc. Cambridge & Oxford UPs, and finance by US publishing association. Georgia State U.'s use of copyrighted materials in electronic reserves mostly permitted.
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Elsevier Experiments With Allowing 'Text Mining' of Its Journals
Elsevier says data mining from journals is possible.....in new move in academic journals dispute
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Britain Announces Plan to Make Publicly Financed Research Freely Available
"Throwing its weight behind open access, the British government has declared it wants to make all research paid for with public money freely available online....."
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Wikipedia founder to help in government's research scheme
"Academic spring campaign aims to make all taxpayer-funded academic research available for free online"
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Major Periodical Subscriptions Cannot Be Sustained
Memo from the Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing, Harvard University
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Academic History Writing and its Disconnects
"We are within sight of that moment when all printed text produced between 1455 and 1923 (when US copyright provisions mean that the needs of modern corporations and IP owners outweigh those of simple scholarship), will be available online to search and to read."
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Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist
"Academic publishers charge vast fees to access research paid for by us. Down with the knowledge monopoly racketeers"
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“Journals Serving as Tombstones” 学术期刊只是墓碑
"Nobody at a top school learned stuff by reading the journals; it was all working papers, with the journals serving as tombstones. So now we have rapid-fire exchange via blogs and online working papers — and I think it’s all good.” {Paul Krugman, author of the piece discussed here]
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Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion?
From Wired Campus...on how universities must embrace and adapt to online open courses and other educational web materials or die.
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Lecture fail?
PowerPoint is boring. Student attention spans are short. Today many facts pop up with a simple Google search. And plenty of free lectures by the world's greatest professors can be found on YouTube. Is it time for more widespread reform of college teaching?
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The Elsevier petition is the academic equivalent of the Hollywood writers strike.....
Explains the boycott of Elsevier....
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Continuous publishing has changed my experience of developing ideas and I’m more attentive to my ‘provisional outputs’ than my handwritten notes
Reflections of Mark Carrigan on the benefits of immersing oneself in the Twittersphere and the value of regular, brief, publishing
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Five minutes with Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson: “Blogging is quite simply, one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now”
Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson discuss social scientists’ obligation to spread their research to the wider world and how blogging can help academics break out of restrictive publishing loops.
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The tuition paradox: You pay more money, you get less choice
About the massive reduction in the number and range of courses now available in universities since tuition fees
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The ghosts of Christmases past, present and future come bearing lessons of academic publishing
Analysis of how the new media world changes the context and potential use of academic articles
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Open Culture
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How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education
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For-Profits Eye British Market as Government Lays Out Welcome Mat
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New Academic Social Network Looks Beyond the Course, and Beyond Facebook
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Education, research and the web
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