From literature searches to collaborative online writing, a significant amount of the research process now takes place online. Andy Tattersall provides a list of useful Google Chrome extensions tha…
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LSE Impact Blog10 Chrome extensions to help manage references, notes, citations and capture information.
#AcWri #AcademicTwitter
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This is the fourth post in a six-week series: Rapid or Rushed? exploring rapid response publishing in covid times. As part of the series, there will be a virtual roundtable on Friday 6th November, …
Stage one of the Open Access (OA) movement promoted the democratization of scholarly knowledge, making work available so that anybody could read it. However, publication in highly ranked journals i…
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LSE Impact Blog"Publishing articles concerned with social justice issues in unjust journal outlets seems wrong, doesn't it?"
Open Access Q&A with Simon Batterbury
#OAWeek2020 #WeekendReading
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Open Access initiatives promise to extend access to scholarly conversations. However, the dominant model of Article Processing Charges, whilst lowering financial barriers for readers, has merely er…
LSE Impact Blog"The APC model, while deconstructing the paywall blocking access for readers has merely erected a new paywall at the other end of the pipeline, blocking access to publication for less-privileged authors"
#OpenAccess
@afessl@tonyR_H@klebel_t
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the already steady transition towards Open Access publishing. However, precisely what this future looks like and how it will be paid for by smaller, independen…
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LSE Impact BlogOpen Access is here to stay. But who will pay?
#OAweek #OAWeek2020
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Literature reviews are an integral part of the process and communication of scientific research. Whilst systematic reviews have become regarded as the highest standard of evidence synthesis, many l…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have been turning to books for information, for entertainment, for distraction and to look after our wellbeing – whether new finds, childhood favourites or …
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LSE Impact Blog9 Recommended Lockdown Reads from the LSE Community
@LSEReviewBooks
#weekendreading #academicchatter
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Demonstrating research integrity is increasingly a demand for institutions receiving funding. However, whilst hundreds of articles have been written on the topic, precisely what this consists of is…
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LSE Impact BlogNine steps to achieve research integrity and build trust
#scicomm #academicchatter
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Over the past sixty years, there has been an exponential growth in the global scholarly publishing landscape. Mapping or capturing it, however, is a difficult task as dominant databases only cover …
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LSE Impact BlogWhat we know about the academic journal landscape reflects global inequalities
#academicpublishing #academicchatter #ECRchat
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LSE Impact BlogWhat we know about the academic journal landscape reflects global inequalities
#academicpublishing #academicchatter
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COVID-19 has highlighted the need to work with researchers all around the world at the same time that it has also exposed the inequalities in the global research and knowledge system. In this piece…
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LSE Impact BlogThe #COVID19 crisis has confirmed that a strong knowledge system is key to a just, peaceful and sustainable world
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LSE Impact BlogThe COVID-19 crisis has confirmed that a strong knowledge system is key to a just, peaceful and sustainable world
#AcademicChatter
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There have been at least 130,000 cases and at least 70 COVID related deaths at American colleges and universities since the pandemic begun. Yet, university campuses reopened in the Fall and continu…
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LSE Impact BlogThe privatisation of risk refers to the phenomenon, particularly marked in the United States, where socially- and systemically-produced risks (that were once public and shared) must be managed individually and privately
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LSE Impact BlogTODAY'S POST
School’s back: How the neoliberal “privatization of risk” explains the deadly decision to re-open campuses
@zacharykaiser
#ECRchat #HigherEducation
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Scientific research has suffered from a lack of global standards. This is set to change due to the 2017 UNESCO Recommendation for Science and Science policy which codifies the coals and valu…
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LSE Impact BlogThe @UNESCO for scientific research norms will transform working conditions, rights and responsibilities of researchers globally
#scicomm
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This post is part of a six-week series: Rapid or Rushed? exploring rapid response publishing in covid times. COVID-19 has seen an unprecedented focus on research and an acceleration in the availabi…
LSE Impact Blog1: Traditional publishing models – which lock content behind paywalls – are not fit for purpose
2: #Preprints and open publishing platforms have come of age
3. We can’t predict which research will be useful – so let’s make it all #openaccess
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LSE Impact BlogWe can’t predict which research will be useful – so let’s make it all #openaccess
#OAWeek
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This review originally appeared on LSE Review of Books. If you would like to contribute to the series, please contact the managing editor of LSE Review of Books, Dr Rosemary Deller, at lsere…
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LSE Impact BlogBook Review: Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
@LSEReviewBooks
#weekendreading
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Thomson Reuters have released the annual round of updates to their ranked list of journals by journal impact factor (JIF) in yesterday’s Journal Citation Reports. Impact Factors have come und…
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LSE Impact BlogThe Impact Factor and Its Discontents: Reading list on controversies and shortcomings of the Journal Impact Factor.
#weekendreading
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LSE Impact BlogThe Impact Factor and Its Discontents: Reading list on controversies and shortcomings of the Journal Impact Factor.
#weekendreading
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Many trans researchers change their name to match their gender identity. However, there is currently no clear, simple or standardised way for publications to be updated to reflect this. As a result…
The reorganisation of work lives bought about by the pandemic has also been met with a reorganisation of domestic space as the site where work now takes place. For Higher Education, this means that…
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LSE Impact BlogToday's post: "The fundamental premise of successful online education is the access to both electricity supply and an Internet connection"
#onlinelearning #backtouni
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Preprints are research reports have that have not yet been peer reviewed and accepted for publication. They have increased rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, high profile discredited st…
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LSE Impact BlogAre preprints a problem? 5 ways to improve the quality and credibility of preprints
#fastscience #openaccess #covid19
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COVID-19 has led to rapid and open sharing of research outputs. But will this new, radically open research communications paradigm result in permanent change? Confederation of Open Access Repositor…
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LSE Impact BlogNew post: COVID-19 has profoundly changed the way we conduct and share research. Let’s not return to business as usual when the pandemic is over!
@COAR_eV #openaccess #openscience #covid19
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LSE Impact Blog#COVID-19 has profoundly changed the way we conduct and share research. Let’s not return to business as usual when the pandemic is over!
#openaccess #openscience
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LSE Impact Blog'Will this new, radically open research communications paradigm result in permanent change?'
#openaccess #openscience #scicomm
@COAR_eV@CoarGlobal
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COVID-19 has led to an upheaval in almost all aspects of life, including the role of the social sciences in public health and pandemic responses. Whereas in the past, the social sciences have often…
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LSE Impact BlogA ‘New Normal’ for the Social Sciences: Improving Pandemic Preparedness and Response
#covid19
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