The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee has just announced the launch of an inquiry into peer review, and is inviting evidence on “the operation and effectiveness of the peer review process used to examine and validate scient…
In March 2009, RIN, in association with Universities UK, issued its guidance on paying for open access (OA) publication charges.…
Just in case anyone is wondering, my previous blog entry on the Research Excellence Framework wasn’t entirely truthful, and may have been influenced by the date it was published on.…
Last week, the Higher Education Funding Councils announced the outcome of the consultations on the Research Excellence Framework (REF), and set out some preliminary decisions on aspects of the design of the REF.…
What is the role of doctoral training in advanced knowledge-based economies?…
The new European Commission was sworn in a couple of weeks ago, several months late owing to the time it took for the appointees to be approved by the European Parliament.…
Interactive publications are cool, really cool.…
One of the most recurring (and sometimes tiresome) debates in our area is the one about the relative merits of institutional and subject-based repositories. Which if the two is better for the long-term curation of content?…
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