By . A top science journal is to offer authors the chance to remain anonymous when their manuscript goes through peer review.
Two articles authored by former CONFINTEA scholars have recently been published in two specialized journals of education.
Ms Sanjana Shrestha (CONFINTEA scholar in May 2013) published The potential of community libraries to support literate environments and sustain literacy skills in the International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE) in co-authorship with Lisa Krolak, Head of UIL’s Library
Mr Carlos Vargas Tamez (CONFINTEA scholar in August 2013) published Democratising education policy making or legitimising discourse? An analysis of the new Lifelong Learning Law in the Basque Country based on a paper presented at the last conference of the ESREA Network on Policy Studies in Adult Education (Aalborg, 2014). This article appeared in the Journal of Phenomenology and Education. More...
By Jen T. Kwok (NTEU National Office). JOURNAL editors soon find out how collegiate their colleagues are when they try to find someone to review a paper. It is a lot of work but, as Mathieu O’Neil has discovered, sometimes an editor can wait months only to get back a useless paragraph.
By Carl Straumsheim. The University of California Press is building a new open-access publishing model around the idea that reviewers and researchers in the hard sciences can support new forms of scholarly communication by "paying it forward."
The university press last month introduced Collabra and Luminos, an open-access journal and monograph publisher, respectively. While Luminos is hoping to publish about 10 monographs this fall, Collabra is in beta testing and aims to accept submissions in a few weeks. Read more...
By Ijad Madisch. The PDF makes reading science research even more difficult and prevents a two-way conversation from taking place. The PDF is the digital equivalent to the desk drawer – a place where scientific results are hard to find and easily forgotten. And yet the PDF is still the default way for scholarly publishers to disseminate research on the web. Read more...
By Adeline Koh. Students were assigned to read the first chapter of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, a useful introduction to the rationale for writing a research paper and overview of the types of resources available to them. More...
By Liudvika Leisyte. Impartiality in peer review has been a focus of recent debate as a number of studies have shown that peer review is not as impartial as it is assumed to be (e.g. Lamont, 2009). Studies have shown that peer-review in academia is biased against many characteristics of the author such as prestige, affiliation, content orientation (such as conservatism), interdisciplinary biases, the social characteristics of peer-reviewers, and the composition of the peer-review team. I find it especially interesting that language, as well as nationality, are a strong source of bias in peer review. More...
By Brian Mathews. I’ve been watching a great talk by Jason Priem on altmetrics. More...
By Anastasia Salter. It’s been a great few days for those of us ready for a cyberpunk dystopia. Microsoft’s Windows 10 announcement came hand-in-hand with a demo of Microsoft HoloLens, their prototype of a holographic platform for computing. The project is only one of many headsets currently exploring augmented and/or reality, with new rumors on Oculus Rift (now supported in the Firefox browser), Google’s MagicLeap, Samsung’s Gear VR, and many others all vying to be the first to take VR and AR from ill-fated gadget (remember Virtual Boy?) to consumer revolution. More...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. What a great start of a new year, to be able to work with wonderful people and get a chapter out as well. The ever working David Hopkins (I think he did not have one single day off during the past holidays), has been editing a book entitled "The Really Useful #EdTechbook" which will be on sale from 28 January 2015./https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
