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Jan 4 2013
OA and the UK Humanities & Social Sciences: Wrong risks and missed opportunities
4 CommentsHumanities and Social Sciences are facing oblivion unless researchers take this generational opportunity to reset the thinking and funding mechanisms. Cameron Neylon writes that it is time humanities and social science embrace open access or risk losing everything. Someone once … Continue reading
Posted by: January 4, 2013
Dec 20 2012
REF nightmares before Christmas
Comments OffIn a moment of frivolity Athene Donald sketched out how a REF committee in a dysfunctional department might pan out. As chair of her own local REF committee she is delighted to say my own experiences bear no relationship to … Continue reading
Posted by: December 20, 2012
Tagged with: impact, Research Excellence Framework
Dec 17 2012
Altmetrics are the central way of measuring communication in the digital age but what do they miss?
7 CommentsInspired by the push towards altmetrics, Nick Scott sees great potential to better communicate indicators of academic success. But this does constitute impact? Here, he puts forward questions on media mentions, website page hits and the ‘dark stuff’. The LSE … Continue reading
Posted by: December 17, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, Future of Impact conference, impact
Dec 13 2012
Efforts to strengthen UK universities will suffer if campaigns ignore their European counterparts
Comments OffMoves to prove impact have led to a rise in campaign groups in support of public universities and the social sciences across the UK and Europe. Anne Corbett finds a worrying level of insularity in the UK’s organisations and argues … Continue reading
Posted by: December 13, 2012
Tagged with: government, impact
Dec 12 2012
A new paradigm of scholarly communications is emerging: A report from the Future of Impact conference
7 CommentsPolicymakers and academics agree that the economic or public impact of research can’t be demonstrated through just citations and bibliometrics yet open access publishing, altmetrics and online methods must be further developed before we can rely on them to prove … Continue reading
Posted by: December 12, 2012
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic publishing, government, impact, open access, Research Excellence Framework
Dec 7 2012
Five minutes with Andrew Herbert: “The social scientists we could do business with were those who grounded their ideas through field studies, cultural probes and social data”.
2 CommentsPart of PPG’s Impact of Social Sciences project focuses on how academic research in the social sciences influences decision-makers in business, government and civil society. Rebecca Mann talked to Andrew Herbert OBE, former Chairman of Microsoft Research. He explains the … Continue reading
Posted by: December 7, 2012
Tagged with: Business, impact
Dec 6 2012
Universities should sink their resources into publishing partnerships with scholarly societies
14 CommentsChristopher Land writes that a hybrid partnership between the university press and scholarly society would put publishing back under academic control and would produce a more open, and impactful, form of publishing. In UK universities this year, conversations are dominated … Continue reading
Posted by: December 6, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, impact
Dec 4 2012
Join us online for the Future of Academic Impacts conference!
Comments OffNew measurements of academic impact and the growth of digital media has transformed the landscape of academic dissemination. Today, the LSE Impacts of Social Science team will be debating the future of impact research and measurement and tackling digital dissemination … Continue reading
Posted by: December 4, 2012
Nov 26 2012
What’s in a name? Academic identity in the metadata age
4 CommentsProfessional identity is everything in academia, so Melissa Terras was shocked to discover the Internet had suddenly made her a specialist in Tarot Symbolism. Google Scholar and other online resources are easy to use to illustrate your online portfolio but … Continue reading
Posted by: November 26, 2012
Tagged with: academic publishing, digital era, impact
Nov 22 2012
Why universities and grant bodies shouldn’t try to over-manage research impact
7 CommentsAcademics should be engaged with the wider world, but impact, if it is routinised, loses its potential to change the dynamic of a system. Chris Hackley writes that the research that influences policy should be celebrated but we must be wary … Continue reading
Posted by: November 22, 2012
Tagged with: impact, public engagement, Research funding
