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Open-access to scholarly research has been very topical the past few years. The internet as a means of communication and distribution seems to have led down to paths, increasingly divergent: either academic journals are going open-access, allowing anyone
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Alex Halavais has posted a very useful set of Tips for academic job applications which, if you're even thinking about heading in that direction, you should read. All the points are worth thinking about, but I thought I'd highlight two. Firstly: Teach
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It would appear that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has the dubious honours of being the first Australian university to have their own YouTube channel . In the past couple of months, there have been a number of reports of US universities setting
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As readers of my main blog will know , I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing
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Given that Robyn's been sharing her heightened enthusiasm for various eResearch tools and David's been talking about some of the eResearch (or, at least, digital communication about eResearch) options already available , I thought I'd throw in an idea
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Australia's QUT has been in the grip of a very public controversy recently which dovetails between issues of freedom of speech, academic ethics and the transparency of university processes. The controversy came to light and media attention on 11 April
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Alex Halavais, an assistant professor at Quinnipiac University , has written an interesting post called " Ask Alex: Getting a Communication Ph.D. " in which he looks at the pros and cons of getting a PhD in Communcations, and, equally importantly, the
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As part of Teaching Month (which, to be honest, is "Teaching 17 Days" but that just sounded naff on flyers and banners), the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is running a group blog in which a number of academics, professional staff and
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One of the great things about using Firefox as a web browser is the possibility to add plugins and extensions of various sorts. For researchers, the drop-down search bar in the top right-hand corner is godsend as it allows you to directly search all sorts
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In exploring the role of participatory media forms in higher eduction, media scholar Henry Jenkins recently penned an article entitled " From YouTube to YouNiversity " for the Chronicle of Higher Education . It's a great read, but this passage particularly
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Here are some suggestions of blogs to illustrate how postgrads and academics are using blogging. Feedback is welcome ... A few good postgraduate and early career academic blogs: Thoughts from Kansas / Joshua Rosenau, USA "A graduate student in Ecology
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