By Jeannie Rea. The latest edition of Advocate (vol. 23, no. 1) is now available online. We hope you find this issue informative and enlightening, and look forward to your feedback or comments. More...
14 avril 2016
13 avril 2016
Second edition of EAR HEI Manual
The manual is designed for admissions officers and credential evaluators working in higher education institutions. It contains practical guidance on the recognition of qualifications and will help higher education institutions ensure that their procedures are fully in line with the Lisbon Recognition Convention. The new edition includes recommendations on qualifications awarded by joint programmes, as well as advice on qualification holders such as refugees who lack documentation. More...
13 avril 2016
New Eurydice publication
The Eurydice Network has published the leaflet “Overview of education policy developments in Europe following the Paris Declaration of 17 March 2015”, which provides a look into education policy developments in European countries one year after the adoption of the Paris Declaration. More...
6 avril 2016
Are the most highly cited articles the ones that are the most downloaded? A bibliometric study of IRRODL
Publication of research, innovation, challenges and successes is of critical importance to the evolution of more effective distance education programming. Publication in peer reviewed journal format is the most prestigious and the most widespread form of dissemination in education and most other disciplines, thus the importance of understanding what is published and its impact on both researchers and practitioners. More...
4 avril 2016
Student put 50 million stolen research articles online
Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the US$10 billion-per-year paywall of academic publishers, writes Michael Rosenwald for The Washington Post. Read more...
3 avril 2016
Don’t rush, to write better
By Ashleigh Vanhouten. University of Waterloo researchers speculate that simply typing more slowly may improve writing. More...
3 avril 2016
Is Scientific Publishing About to Be Disrupted? ASAPbio, Briefly Explained
By Andy Thomason. A group of biologists gathered last month outside Washington, D.C., for a conference that could help spur change in how the discipline publishes its work. United under the name ASAPbio, attendees discussed how they might upend the traditional publishing structure in the interest of speeding up scientific discovery and making scholarship more publicly accessible. More...
3 avril 2016
Academic Publishers Experiment With ‘Altmetrics’ to Track Reach and Impact
By . In an increasingly quantified world defined by clicks and shares, academic publishers are looking for ways to track mentions of their articles on social media and other online sources, tapping into a trend among scholars known as "altmetrics". More...
2 avril 2016
Publish ideas from scholarly articles early, event told
By Chris Havergal. Jisc Digifest hears openness could bring benefits, but some cite plagiarism risks. More...
2 avril 2016
Wellcome criticises publishers over open access
By David Matthews. Wiley and Elsevier attacked over failures to deposit papers as research funder warns it could withdraw funding for hybrid journals. More...
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