Tag: academic publishing
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Why publish-or-perish? Why not, publish-and-prosper?
It’s weird to think of some of the things we take for granted in higher education. Surely one of the worst is to be taken in by the publish-or-perish mindset; the idea that, unless you publish you have no future in academia. That you’ll be punished, or worse, that you’ll ‘perish’: To die or be destroyed, especially…
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Comment: A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review
We found that the total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years. The estimated monetary value of the time US-based reviewers spent on reviews was over 1.5 billion USD in 2020. For China-based reviewers, the estimate is over 600 million USD, and…
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OMW, Fermat’s Library looks amazing
Fermat’s Library is a service that allows members to upload papers and annotate them to provide some of the context around research articles, through annotation and discussion. The website creators talk about the importance of understanding the backstory to a lot of academic research. For example, in the image below you can see a summary of Richard Feynman’s…
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OpenPhysio | A new physiotherapy education journal
I’m really excited to announce a new project that I’ve been working on together with the folks at Physiopedia. Today we’re launching an open access, peer reviewed journal with a focus on physiotherapy education, with a few features that we think are pretty innovative in the academic publishing space. The journal is called OpenPhysio and represents…
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I enjoyed reading (April)
Sudden site shutdowns and the perils of living our lives online (John Paul Titlow): When Google decided to shut down Reader and made the announcement a few weeks ago, this really made me think carefully about what I do online, and where I decide to do it. Obviously there’s incredible convenience in having someone else…
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Alternative ways of sharing my PhD output
“Online journals are paper journals delivered by faster horses” – Beyond the PDF 2 I’ve started a process of creating a case study of my PhD project, using my blog as an alternative means of presenting and sharing my results. Most of the chapters have already either been published or are under review with peer-reviewed journals, so…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-07-30
The ironies of academic publishing: The system is stupid and it’s time for a new manifesto http://t.co/zCV8L0Tw # Response to the Draft Policy Framework for the Provision of Distance Education in South African Universities | @Czernie http://t.co/sfnTUGZF # Connected Learning Manifesto for Connected Educator Month http://t.co/Rt2Sy495 #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-09
The Human Anatomy, Animated With 3-D Technology http://t.co/6CBDJBW8 via @zite # Augmented reality lens from Microsoft and the University of Washington in the final stages of development http://t.co/kntfqjOx via @zite # Recently discovered #Pinterest and even though it’s not fully open to everyone yet, check it out for some inspiring pics… # Simple thoughts about…