Gold access, the destroyer of worlds (2 of 3)
Salvatore Babones is correct to identify the potentially divisive effect of the introduction of the "gold" model of open-access publishing. The problems will not be confined to the arts, humanities...
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Gold access, the destroyer of worlds (3 of 3)
Salvatore Babones sees the consequence of the Finch report being "the destruction of the arts, humanities and social sciences".There are many disadvantages of the gold route - not the least of which...
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Gender politics
The Women's Library and Information Center Foundation in Istanbul is deeply shocked and saddened to hear that London Metropolitan University is looking for a new custodian for its Women's Library due...
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Just the job
The provision now being made for career breaks in the research excellence framework to which Daniel Hill refers ("Double standards", Letters, 26 July) is essential and long overdue.Some years ago, I...
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Money for old rope
There is no evidence that private sector competition drives up academic standards, but there is clear evidence that it drives up fees. Wherever a limited supply of a desirable commodity - such as...
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Generation gap (1 of 2)
It may be that my advancing years have rendered me more sensitive, but I have a strong suspicion that the research by the Higher Education Funding Council for England that concludes that a "...
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Generation gap ( 2 of 2)
We should be discussing how society is going to avoid, as life expectancy increases, the prospect of an ever-increasing permanent army of retired workers supported by a state with ever-shrinking...
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Misuse and abuse
John Radford ("Precise definitions", Letters, 2 August) says that in asking to which historical point we should refer for standards of English correctness, I am asking the wrong question, and that it...
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Research Intelligence - Citing to win as journals 'game' system
Impact factor manipulation in spotlight as Thomson Reuters targets offenders. Paul Jump reports
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The week in higher education
• The Russell Group has officially welcomed its four new arrivals from the 1994 Group: Durham, Exeter and York universities and Queen Mary, University of London. To mark their arrival, the mission...
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Leader: Can we have the bill, please?
Despite the demise of Lords reform, fundamental changes to the academy are still unlikely to receive parliamentary scrutiny
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From Where I Sit - Beyond a joke
"How many Irish mothers does it take to change a light bulb? None. They say, 'We'll be all right here in the dark.'" This old joke was offered last month during a 12-day visit to universities and...
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Odds and quads
This small flock of fibreglass sheep appeared overnight earlier this year on a building known as The Stripe at the University of Winchester.
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Appointments
University of KentStephen PeckhamThe new director of the Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent said he was "delighted" at the move. Stephen Peckham, who joins from the London...