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Book Review: The Open Book: Stories of Academic Life and Writing or Where We Know Things by Ninna Meier and Charlotte Wegener

by Blog Admin • September 24, 2017

In The Open Book: Stories of Academic Life and Writing or Where We Know Things, Ninna Meier and Charlotte Wegener offer an experimental co-memoir that blurs, unhooks and reweaves the relationship between “academic” and “creative” writing, while also disturbing traditional divisions between professional and personal life. The book succeeds in bringing emotion and empathy to academic writing, writes Vanessa Longden, and prompts reflection on personal practice. This […]

co-creation, co-produced research, co-production, Featured, free, Impact, knowledge exchange, Public Engagement, research collaboration, research methods

On the co-production of research: why we should say what we mean, mean what we say, and learn as we go

by Blog Admin • September 21, 2017

Researchers are increasingly encouraged to “co-produce” or “co-create” their research, particularly if it is to have that much-prized impact. But what exactly does this really mean? Bev J. Holmes defines co-production as the collaboration between researchers and others with a stake in a project in its governance, priority-setting, conducting of research, and knowledge translation. Once what is meant by co-production is […]

computational research, Digital Content, Partners and Collaboration

Welcoming Jer Thorp as Innovator-in-Residence

by Abbey Potter • September 20, 2017

Starting this week, acclaimed data artist Jer Thorp began his tenure as the 2017 Library of Congress Innovator-in-Residence. He will spend six months with the National Digital Initiatives team exploring the Library’s digital collections and creating an art piece that will be displayed in the Library’s public spaces. Jer Thorp is an artist and educator […]

academic presses, Academic Publishing, APCs, DIY publishing, Featured, free, Higher Education, institutional repositories, JISC, Libraries, library integration, mongraphs, new presses, new university presses, open access, publishing ecologies, publishing platforms, university presses

Taking back control: the new university and academic presses that are re-envisioning scholarly publishing

by Blog Admin • September 20, 2017

A recent report from Jisc showcases the upward trend in universities and academics setting up their own presses in an environment increasingly dominated by large commercial publishing houses. Following up on the recommendations arising from this report, authors Janneke Adema and Graham Stone put forward some ideas on how to best support these new initiatives through community and infrastructure-building. In […]

Digital Content, LC Labs

Library Launches labs.loc.gov

by Meghan Ferriter • September 19, 2017

Today the Library of Congress has launched labs.loc.gov as a new online space designed to empower exploration and discovery in digital collections. Library of Congress Labs will host a changing selection of experiments, projects, events and resources designed to encourage creative use of the Library’s digital collections. To help demonstrate what exciting discoveries are possible, […]

Academic communication, academic debate, Academic Publishing, alt-right, Bruce Gilley, colonialism, Featured, free, gamification of research, gaming metrics, Impact, impact agenda, LSE Comment, metrics, research evaluation, Third World Quarterly

Clickbait and impact: how academia has been hacked

by Blog Admin • September 19, 2017

It has become increasingly clear that prevailing academic incentive structures have a potentially damaging and distorting effect on the nature of academic debates. Portia Roelofs and Max Gallien use the example of a controversial recent journal publication to illustrate how deliberately provocative articles have the capacity to hack academia, to privilege clicks and attention over rigour in research. This is […]