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Models for Campus-Based Publishing
Research Without Borders March 1, 2011 As both academic libraries and university presses struggle with budget pressures and the increasing dominance of networked technology in scholarly publishing, many institutions are establishing library-press partnerships in an effort to rethink the role … Read More →
Working with Citizen Scientists
Research Without Borders February 8, 2011 Citizen scientists are members of the public who voluntarily contribute to scientific research projects. Panelists share their experiences with citizen science initiatives and consider what factors contribute to a successful collaboration with interested amateurs. … Read More →
Crisis on Campus: Refiguring Teaching and Writing
Research Without Borders November 9, 2010 Mark Taylor, Chair of the Columbia University Department of Religion, discusses his proposals for reinventing higher education and research outlined in his recent book Crisis on Campus. Taylor argues that higher education is facing … Read More →
Radical Open Access in the Humanities
Research Without Borders October 18, 2010 Discover why open access is not only a viable option for the humanities, but a revolutionary one. Though more widely recognized in the sciences, open access publishing is well established in the humanities and … Read More →
The Promise of Peer Review
Research Without Borders September 29, 2010 In today’s networked digital environment, is the peer review system the best way to recognize quality research and scholarship? Scholars have come to rely on peer review to ensure that the research they publish … Read More →
Bargaining for Better Publication Agreements: Your Choices and Your Scholarship
October 19, 2010 The detailed terms of your agreements for publication of books, articles, and any other work have an immediate and direct effect on the usefulness and availability of your own scholarship, and the terms of these agreements are … Read More →
Communicating Climate Change Science
Research Without Borders April 6, 2010 Researchers often come up against the challenge of effectively communicating complex data to an audience beyond academia. In the case of climate change science, this challenge is a special one. Now a highly politicized … Read More →
Ten Years of PubMed Central
Research Without Borders February 23, 2010 What can researchers expect next from PubMed Central? David Lipman gives an overview of the past, present, and future of the National Institutes of Health's archive of biomedical research articles. On its 10th anniversary, … Read More →
Who Pays For Open Access?
Research Without Borders March 9, 2010 Is publishing an open-access journal good business? And for whom? Many in the academic community agree that the goal of open access—increasing the availability and usability of the results of research and scholarship—is laudable. … Read More →
Open Data and the Future of Funded Research
Research Without Borders November 12, 2009 Are researchers ready to share their data? The panelists discuss the advantages of sharing data openly as well as the practical implications for researchers, particularly those who work with confidential information or who plan … Read More →
