Following New Journal Articles Online As They Are Released
If you want to stay current with your research area, you need to read new journal articles as they come out. In the past, this was much more difficult; you needed to subscribe to...
Category: Publishing
Responsible Data-Driven Journalism
The Guardian’s DataBlog: If there’s a picture of more responsible journalism, I’ve never seen it. Now the only question that remains – where’s the American equivalent?
Journals of Negative Results
A new journal for unpublished results is starting up, making a grand total of 3 such journals across all academic fields.
University President Cancels a Study, Ed Tech Moves Backwards, and Journals Will Never Go Away
Three bits of news missed over the holidays: a university president canceled an NIH-approved study to appease a donor, technology moves backwards in early childhood education, and journals will never go away.
Copyright:Academia :: Oil:Water
Through this post at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, I learned Dr. Steven Shavell, director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business has written a piece on whether copyright should be abolished for academic works and how realistically that might happen (available as a PDF). It’s an interesting read, also laying out the motivations for academic publishing in such a way that it’s very depressing but also illuminating to a lay audience (which is, I imagine, his purpose).
A Fake Scientific Literature
The success or failure of academia revolves around the integrity of its journals – the “trade mags,” so to speak, of each academic area. Which makes it all the more disturbing that major academic...