Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a brief round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. Paige Brown Jarreau at SciLogs calls out Science‘s latest ‘Top Scientists on Twitter’ list for reducing social media science engagement to popularity. She considers what criteria might lead to more enriching experiences with science communication on Twitter in her […]
Category: Weekly Round Up
Impact Round-Up 13th September: Referendum woes, corporate algorithms, and big bad journalists.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a brief round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. Scientists split over Scottish independence vote: Research could founder or flourish if Scotland leaves the United Kingdom. by Elizabeth Gibney at Nature: One thing is clear: the patchwork of sources from which Scottish institutes currently obtain their funding means […]
Impact Round-Up 6th September: Monsters of EdTech, visualising conferences, and for-profit masters.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. Conference season is in full swing and this week there were a range of events taking place on scholarly communications with equally lively discussions taking place on Twitter. The Association for Learning Technology’s annual conference (#altc) discussed online and digital […]
Impact Round-Up 16th August: Google Science, digital age knowledge creation, and scientific accountability.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. An exaggerated title given the piece itself confirms these rumours “are almost certainly a hoax”, but still, How ‘Google Science’ could transform academic publishing by Liat Clark at WIRED provides a helpful overview of the previous efforts made my Google to […]
Impact Round-Up 9th August: Research recommendations, open data outcomes, and keeping open access simple.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. Jennifer Lin at PLOS announced an exciting new recommendations feature to be implemented across the PLOS journals in Diving into the haystack to make more hay? at the PLOS Tech Blog. Linking up with figshare, the Related Content tab on […]
Impact Round-Up 19th July: Crafting Op-Eds, fixing peer review, and ethical frameworks for social media research.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. Now that summer is in full swing, this may be the perfect time to set aside that research article and consider some alternative forms of publication. Tressie McMillan Cottom recommends the Op-Ed as an “excellent way to bring […]
Impact Round-Up 21st June: Universities as big business, coding the future, and openings in knowledge production.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. Dorothy Bishop calls out the management decisions at King’s College London that could lead to redundancies for academic staff in order to improve its bottom line in The University as big business: The case of King’s College London. Traditionally a university […]
Impact Round-Up 7th June: Prometheus gagged, Einstein’s peer review, and turning repositories into journals.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. This week the Times Higher Education reported on a stand-off between academic editorial board and commercial publisher. The journal Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation appears to have faced delays and unexplained edits from its publisher Taylor and Francis on content […]
Impact Round-Up 24th May: GitHub for science, research in the national interest, and myths of ‘big data’
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. This week Science have launched a special section, The science of inequality, which brings together a range of social science perspectives and short videos on “the origins, impact, and future of inequality around the world”. All features are currently not paywalled […]
Impact Round-Up 26th April: The cost of journal subscriptions, writing for impact, and the Journal Openness Index.
Managing Editor Sierra Williams presents a round-up of popular stories from around the web on higher education, academic impact, and trends in scholarly communication. Open access advocate and Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers has been pulling together information on Elsevier journal subscription costs in an effort to provide a bigger picture of what the current scholarly communication system is costing university libraries (previously […]