In the fourth edition of his best-selling textbook, David Silverman provides a step-by-step guide to planning and conducting qualitative research. Using real examples from real postgraduate students, the book aims to make it easy to link theory to methods and shows how … Continue reading →
Category: Academic communication
Recomposing Scholarship: The critical ingredients for a more inclusive scholarly communication system.
Scholarship is not just about publication, but about interaction, interpretation, exchange, deliberation, discourse, debate, and controversy. Below is the transcript from Jonathan Gray‘s talk at yesterday’s conference which outlined how at odds the current system of academic publishing, commodification and reward is … Continue reading →
Browse the entire eCollection: Open Access Perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Yesterday we co-hosted the event Open Access Futures in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The aim of the conference was to bring together a diverse range of voices within the wider community to examine and interrogate issues of openness, new horizons … Continue reading →
Driven by user input and discipline-specific aims, PhilPapers combines access with engagement.
Having begun as an online categorisation service for philosophy students and teachers, PhilPapers has grown to be an established open access archive and active forum for research engagement. Justin Bzovy and Emma Ryman show that PhilPapers is a vibrant example … Continue reading →
Data sharing not only helps facilitate the process of psychology research, it is also a reflection of rigour.
Although many psychologists acknowledge the usefulness of storing and sharing their data, studies suggest this is not a common practice. Secrecy can lead to all sorts of problems including biases in reporting of results, honest errors, and even fraud. Jelte Wicherts believes it … Continue reading →
Open Data in Economics: The Basis of Reproducible Research
Delving deeper into discipline-specific perspectives on openness in the social sciences, Velichka Dimitrova looks at the present and future of open data for economics research. By sharing data, economists stand to enhance the visibility and the impact of their research … Continue reading →
Top-down mandates and advocacy will help institutional repositories continue to enhance open access content and delivery.
Institutional repositories (IRs) can sometimes be perceived as a low-impact method of open access delivery. Neil Stewart explains how the rapidly changing scholarly communications ecosystem stands to greatly benefit from the continued development of repositories. The future of IRs looks … Continue reading →
Markets versus Dialogue: The debate over open access ignores competing philosophies of openness.
Open access arguments operate within a privatised university sector, where the market serves to maximise the production and distribution of knowledge. John Holmwood looks at how the debate over open access celebrates its contribution to dialogue while ignoring the underlying processes … Continue reading →