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Category Archives: Accountability
U. of California faculty union says MOOCs undermine professors’ intellectual property | Inside Higher Ed
What’s really interesting to me about this article is that the issue of competing interests of faculty as individuals and as a collective is raised, but not really explored. We need an account of something like group autonomy. U. of … Continue reading
Open Access, the Impact Agenda and resistance to the neoliberal paradigm | Impact of Social Sciences
Yesterday’s post introduced the context of neoliberalism as the backdrop of change in higher education. Here Martin Eve provides further clarification of the neoliberal context, linking the impact agenda under the Research Excellence Framework as a key trait of a privatised … Continue reading
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Physicist tipped for US energy post : Nature News & Comment
As the administration of US President Barack Obama prepares for a renewed push towards cleaner energy and reduced greenhouse-gas emissions, the White House appears to have chosen another physicist to head the effort. The leading candidate to replace departing energy … Continue reading
Humanities Unraveled – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Humanities Unraveled – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Conservatives declare war on college – Salon.com
Good insight from Andrew Leonard: For many conservatives, the humanities departments of public universities are bastions of the “tenured left” busily brainwashing the young people of America into godless socialist postmodernism. They’d much rather for-profit corporations were in charge of … Continue reading
OSTP Open Access Memo — even faster than FASTR
John P. Holdren: Scientific research supported by the Federal Government catalyzes innovative breakthroughs that drive our economy. The results of that research become the grist for new insights and are assets for progress in areas such as health, energy, the … Continue reading
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Institutions starting to walk the Broader Impacts walk
CSID’s own Robert Frodeman is slated to keynote an upcoming Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit. This summit marks the first of its kind for its focus on institutional infrastructure, primarily at universities and colleges, to support faculty and staff in coordinating, … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, Conferences Upcoming, NSF, STEM Policy
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Open Access Creative Commons licences for Cambridge Journals « CJO « Cambridge Journals Blog
Cambridge University Press has announced today that articles in its Open Access journals can be published with a Creative Commons Attribution licence (‘CC-BY‘). This licence allows users and readers to download, read, re-use and re-distribute freely, as long as they … Continue reading
Posted in Basic News, Open Access
Tagged Cambridge, Cambridge Journals, CC-BY, Creative Commons, Finch Report, OA, open access, Press, publishing, RCUK, university, wellcome trust
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How Scientists View the Public, the Media, and the Political Process | Climate Shift
Most scientists in the US and UK blame public ignorance of science for flawed policy preferences and political choices. They tend to be critical of media coverage, yet rate favorably their own experience with the media. Scientists say policy-makers and … Continue reading
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An unusual take on the Research Excellence Framework – HERAVALUE
An unusual take on the Research Excellence Framework – HERAVALUE.
What are the goalposts for science, and why should we care?
I recently ran across this analysis by Dan Hind in Al Jazeera. It’s a delighfully cogent summary of the main drivers of the scientific enterprise: unaccountable power in the form of national and corporate investment, which determines to a large … Continue reading
Open Access: What is it?
A video from PhD Comics. What is PhD Comics? Piled Higher and Deeper – Life (or the lack thereof) in Academia (also known as PhD Comics), is a newspaper and web comic strip written and drawn by Jorge Cham that follows the lives of several grad … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, copyright, digital scholarship, education, oer, open, pedagogy, policy, reflection, research, technology, technology and tagged academia
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Times Higher Education – Slow ethics will tackle moral winter
Slow ethics provides for a more sustainable and tempered approach to professional ethics. It would go beyond simple monomaniacal explanations, quick fixes and single values and algorithms. It would involve learning from the past, appreciating complexity and taking time to … Continue reading
“The Individual and Scholarly Networks” webinar: Notes from the not-so-underground philosopher
My initial reaction is that the single-day webinar in which I presented on Tuesday (and in which I was the only humanist – !) was a success. Excepting some minor and very intermittent technical difficulties with sound and visual, the presenters … Continue reading
“The Individual and Scholarly Networks” — Research Trends Webinar
Just finished listening to this webinar, in which CSID’s own Kelli Barr participated as a presenter. One of the most interesting aspects of the webinar was the discussion of the use of new ways for the individual researcher to extend … Continue reading
Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa? | Joanna Blythman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Now, this is something for us really to think about. Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa? | Joanna Blythman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. It’s silly to suggest that vegans are to blame, of course. It’s all … Continue reading
John Kay – London’s rise from sewer to spectacle
John Kay – London’s rise from sewer to spectacle. On the limits of cost-benefit analysis.
Posted in Accountability, Metrics, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy
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Europe Looks for Better Ways to Measure the Value of the Arts and Humanities – WorldWise – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Europe Looks for Better Ways to Measure the Value of the Arts and Humanities – WorldWise – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Don’t Underestimate NSF’s New Grant-Submission Rules – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education
I left a comment* about one point I take issue with; but this is a good article, with lots of good advice. Don’t Underestimate NSF’s New Grant-Submission Rules – Manage Your Career – The Chronicle of Higher Education. * Just … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, NSF, Peer Review, STEM Policy
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Value all Research Products « Research Remix
Heather Piwowar (aka @ResearchRemix) has just published a pre-print version of her recently published Nature article on NSF’s new bio-sketch requirements. First draft of just-published Value all Research Products « Research Remix. This version is as interesting from the meta-standpoint … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Future of the University, Metrics, NSF, Open Access, STEM Policy
Tagged altmetrics, Piwowar
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Denton Drilling: The End of Closed-Door Paternalism
“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.” -Martin Luther … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Environmental policy, Gas Fracking, Public Philosophizing, Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security
Tagged Adam Briggle, City of Denton, communication, DAG, denton, exchange, fear, gas drilling ordinance, gas fracking, martin luther king, mlk, openness, paternalism, shale gas, Texas
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Faculty appointments and the record of scholarship | eLife
The paper is well worth reading for those interested in scholarly communications. The journal, eLife, is also worth checking out. Faculty appointments and the record of scholarship | eLife.
Posted in Future of the University, Metrics, Open Access, Peer Review
Tagged authorship
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My library is already an open access publisher! Is yours? – bjoern.brembs.blog
News / Comments / My library is already an open access publisher! Is yours? – bjoern.brembs.blog.
From Peer Review to the Wisdom of Crowds? Open Access & Peer Review | History Workshop
Open Access, for some at least, goes hand in hand with a move towards Open Evaluation. From Peer Review to the Wisdom of Crowds? Open Access & Peer Review | History Workshop.
Posted in Future of the University, Open Access, Peer Review
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