Archive for 'Peer Review'
Caught Between the Old and the New
Over the past academic year I’ve worked on a research project with a colleague to study the ways that students do their scholarly work, similar to the project at the University of Rochester a few years ago. We finished with data collection for this year and are spending the summer analyzing our results. We’ve gotten [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on June 26th, 2010 under Open Access, Peer Review, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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The Future of Peer Review?
It’s still a few weeks until Open Access Week, but starting now you can help reimagine what scholarly publishing might look like in the future. Media Studies scholar Kathleen Fitzpatrick has made her new book manuscript available online for open peer review. While Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy will go [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on September 29th, 2009 under Open Access, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications.
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Balancing Act
I’m kind of in the pickle that Maura describes – subscribed to too many sources of information that I would read if I weren’t so busy keeping up with the stream of new information. But Current Cites is always a good ‘un for finding a cross-section of interesting new stuff and this week it pointed [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on August 29th, 2009 under Commercialization, Open Access, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications, Technology Issues, Worth Reading, information industries.
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Faculty Blog Round-Up: Writing Books
At the peak of summer, many faculty are in deep research mode, especially with longer projects, like books, that require the kind of travel or in-depth work they can’t schedule during the semester. Here’s an overview of the book-writing process from the inside
Dr. Crazy, an anonymous literature professor, is beginning to ponder her topic.
Anthropologist Auto [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on July 24th, 2009 under Books, Faculty, Peer Review, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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Faculty Blog Round-Up: The Publishing Cycle
Over at Edge of the American West, UC Irvine English professor Scott Eric Kaufman has a bit of a rant about both the delay and format of the January issue of the journal of the Modern Language Association.
Cheer up, SEK; it could be worse. The anonymous Lumpenprofessoriat tells a tale of woe, with an eventual [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on May 23rd, 2009 under Faculty, Peer Review, Scholarly Communications.
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