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International issues, Journals and publishing

Secondary publishing rights can improve public access to academic research

Brianne Selman, University of Winnipeg and Mark Swartz, Queen's University, Ontario

Academic freedom, Journals and publishing, Open learning, open access, and open source, Technology

ChatGPT: our study shows AI can produce academic papers good enough for journals – just as some ban it

Brian Lucey, Trinity College Dublin and Michael Dowling, Dublin City University

Equity and social justice, Journals and publishing, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

Indigenous scholars struggle to be heard in the mainstream. Here’s how journal editors and reviewers can help

Apisalome Movono, Massey University; Anna Carr; Emma Hughes, Massey University; Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, University of South Australia; Jeremy William Hapeta, Massey University; Regina Scheyvens, Massey University, and Rochelle Stewart-Withers, Massey University

GettyImages In the world of research and scholarship, being published in academic journals is crucial to both the advancement of knowledge and […]

Equity and social justice, Funding, Journals and publishing, Research and innovation

How COVID is widening the academic gender divide in Australia

Kirsty Duncanson, La Trobe University; Natasha Weir, La Trobe University; Pavithra Siriwardhane, RMIT University, and Tehmina Khan, RMIT University

Charles Deluvio/Unsplash From the first rumblings of its spread, COVID-19’s impact on women academics was immediate. In a sign of the gendered […]

Equity and social justice, Journals and publishing, Research and innovation

Women less likely to critique men’s research in academic journals

Cary Wu, York University, Canada; Rima Wilkes, University of British Columbia, and Sylvia Fuller, University of British Columbia

Comment letters in academic journals respond to previously published articles, and are subject to the same gender disparities found elsewhere in research. […]

History, Journals and publishing, Teaching and learning

A message in an old Science treasure box: Teach students to think mathematically

Andie Burazin, University of Toronto; Veselin Jungic, Simon Fraser University; Miroslav Lovric, McMaster University

What are the chief aims of teaching mathematics in university engineering programs? To what extent should mathematical subjects be presented to students, […]

Editorials, Journals and publishing

$10,000 Fellowship for Higher Education Journalism accepting applications

The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) is excited to announce the second annual $10,000 OCUFA Fellowship in Higher Education Journalism. […]

Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Intellectual property, Journals and publishing, Open learning, open access, and open source, Students

Textbooks could be free if universities rewarded professors for writing them

James M. Skidmore, University of Waterloo

Universities have a responsibility to reduce barriers in student learning, and one way to do this is through creating textbooks that […]

Journals and publishing, Online education, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation

University of California’s break with the biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good

MacKenzie Smith, University of California, Davis

Libraries subscribe digitally to academic journals – and are left with nothing in the stacks when the contract expires. Eric Chan/Flickr, CC […]

Journals and publishing, Open learning, open access, and open source, Research and innovation

All publicly funded research could soon be free for you, the taxpayer, to read

Ritesh Chugh, CQUniversity Australia and Kenneth Howah, CQUniversity Australia

The new ‘Plan S’ initiative focuses on making all publicly funded research immediately fully and freely available by open access publication. from […]

Topic: Journals and publishing

Secondary publishing rights can improve public access to academic research

ChatGPT: our study shows AI can produce academic papers good enough for journals – just as some ban it

A message in an old Science treasure box: Teach students to think mathematically

$10,000 Fellowship for Higher Education Journalism accepting applications

Textbooks could be free if universities rewarded professors for writing them

University of California’s break with the biggest academic publisher could shake up scholarly publishing for good

All publicly funded research could soon be free for you, the taxpayer, to read

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