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May 16 2013
Elite journals are losing their position of privilege
2 CommentsHaving first documented the large-scale demise of the impact factor as a predictor of quality research, George Lozano and team examined whether this pattern also applies to the handful of elite journals. His recent study finds the proportion of top papers published … Continue reading
Posted by: May 16, 2013
Tagged with: impact factor
Mar 26 2013
The politics of the public eye
3 CommentsThere are clear and direct benefits for academics to communicate with broader audiences, but what about the downsides? Melonie Fullick examines the heightened level of criticism and misrepresentation that come with wider audiences and argues this is less about the media … Continue reading
Posted by: March 26, 2013
Mar 4 2013
Collaborating on a Conference Panel with Google Drive
4 CommentsEditing documents using centralised online cloud storage is an increasingly popular workflow adjustment, making documents more easily accessible and more transparently adaptable. There is great potential for academics and researchers to explore the variety of free services available. Kim Mann shares her … Continue reading
Posted by: March 4, 2013
Tagged with: Google Drive
Jan 31 2013
Using Google Hangouts for Higher Education blogs and workshops
2 CommentsMuch has been written about the ways that Twitter and Facebook can be used by academics and research groups as part of strategies to disseminate their work and increase their online visibility, but what else is out there? Google+ and its … Continue reading
Posted by: January 31, 2013
Tagged with: Google+
Jan 25 2013
Thoughts on Mendeley and Elsevier
3 CommentsLast week, TechCrunch reported that Elsevier, the multi-billion dollar publishing company, is in advanced talks to buy Mendeley, the free reference manager and academic social network site. Given Elsevier’s less-than-trusted standing in the research community, questions are being asked of what this … Continue reading
Posted by: January 25, 2013
Tagged with: Elsevier Boycott, Mendeley
Oct 12 2012
How and when social scientists in Government contribute to policy
1 CommentDoes a PhD allow social scientists in Government to climb the career ladder and make a difference to government policy? Mariell Juhlin, Puay Tang and Jordi Molas Gallart find that social scientists working within government benefit from an ‘expert’ effect as having an academic background … Continue reading
Posted by: October 12, 2012
Tagged with: government, impact, Knowledge transfer
Oct 11 2012
Knowledge mobilisation is a social process: Social media can support individuals and organisations in research dissemination
4 CommentsAlready an active user of social media, David Phipps has recently been thinking about its potential as an academic tool. He concludes that knowledge mobilisation is continuing to evolve and that social media could grow into a powerful tool for … Continue reading
Posted by: October 11, 2012
Tagged with: digital era, impact, Knowledge transfer, social media
Oct 10 2012
The Finch Report and RCUK Open Access policy: How can libraries respond?
5 CommentsOpen Access is now central to academic publishing, regardless of whether your team colours are green or gold. Ahead of Open Access Week, Natalia Madjarevic writes that she has witnessed increased media coverage as a result of green OA and … Continue reading
Posted by: October 10, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, impact, journals, libraries, open access
Oct 9 2012
We can do much better than rely on the self-fulfilling impact factor: Academics must harness ideas of engagement to illustrate their impact
7 CommentsImpact Factors are a god-send for overworked and distracted individuals, and while Google Scholar goes some way to utilizing multiple measures to determine a researcher’s impact, Jonathan Becker argues that we can go one better. He writes that engagement is … Continue reading
Posted by: October 9, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, impact, impact factor
Oct 3 2012
Universities and social media: Academics need to be bold in our use of social media and not outsource digital dissemination to widget gurus
9 CommentsUniversities are unique institutions that need social media policies that fit their goals of knowledge creation and dissemination. Mark Smithers writes that this isn’t a task that should be outsourced to ‘social media gurus’ with no knowledge of academia. My … Continue reading
Posted by: October 3, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, digital era, impact, social media
