The LC Labs team’s June newsletter focuses on data and libraries.
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Featured, Higher Education, Higher Education Funding, higher education policy, metrics, Rankings, university rankings
Rankings affect the financial sustainability of English universities, just not for the elite
University rankings are often presumed to be value neutral, creating equal opportunities for the institutions they order to compete around fixed indicators of quality. However, highlighting new collaborative research, Roxana Baltaru shows how universit…
Three false starts on the road to open social science
The shift to ‘open’ working across the social sciences as a discipline group entails a welcome but demanding cultural change. Yet, Patrick Dunleavy argues that there have already been three false starts: focusing only on isolated bits of the open agend…
book review, Book Reviews, Featured, research communication, Routines, social change, social science
Book Review: Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation by Carolyn Pedwell
In Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation, Carolyn Pedwell examines how social change can be enacted through everyday habits and routinised practices, arguing that such ‘minor’ gestures may be just as transformative as major events…
FADGI is a Finalist for the Digital Preservation Coalition 20th Anniversary Award
Today’s guest post is from Kate Murray, Tom Rieger and Hana Beckerle, leaders of the FADGI working groups at the Library of Congress. The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) is thrilled to announce that it is a finalist for the prestigious Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) 20th Anniversary Award! The DPC 20th Anniversary Award celebrates a […]
Should you be highlighting that paper you’re reading?
The chances are at some point you have looked at a text you have been highlighting, digitally, or in the traditional fashion with a highlighter, and thought, what do these blocks of fluorescent colour actually mean? In this cross post, Pat Thomson disc…