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Despite having presented at a conference before, and having given several lectures, I was rather nervous about my presentation. Presenting seems to be something of a hit-and-miss affair at the best of times, and several papers I saw were given to an audience of two or three, or received quite antagonistic and unconstructive questions. That said, ...

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 to read the contents; or, they're becoming part of large corporate conglomerates which ...

The aim of this international conference is to generate new thinking about gender and leadership by providing a creative forum for interaction between leadership scholars, researchers, practitioners and policy makers from across the world.Contributions are sought from a wide theoretical spectrum, including (but not limited to) feminism, sociology, ...

I have a feeling that I'm not the only PhD student afflicted with constant doubt as to whether my work is good enough to show people yet. I've avoided putting my publications on this website for a while now, mostly because I keep thinking that they just need one more round of edits/fact-checking/etc. And they probably wouldn't suffer too much from ...

A retired chemistry professor has just ''removed'' a paper that he published in 1955, in part because it has been used to justify creationism by a number of creationist organisations/web sites. The article about this in the New York Times also cites Home Jacobson as having removed it because of some errors that he had seen in the paper after ...

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 I've been thinking about for a while, which is an ePrint archive.  In the simplest ...

The special themed issue of Reconstruction which focuses on blogging is out! Here's the announcement: Reconstruction is proud to announce the publication of its Vol. 6, No. 4 (2006) themed issue, ''Theories/Practices of Blogging,'' which can be found at http://reconstruction.eserver.org. Featured in the issue: * Michael Benton (aka Thivai ...