Letters – 24 January 2019
Journals’ digital life assured as print phased out Journals’ digital life assured as print phased out PNAS is to be congratulated for its recent decision to cease printing its journal (“Out of paper...
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Fourth Degree by Laurie Taylor – 24 January 2019
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Official zero-hours figures unlikely to stem ‘casualisation’ row
First statistics from Hesa on extent of zero-hours contracts show 3 per cent of ‘typical’ workforce have them, but figure is far higher for ‘atypical’ staff
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Canada fears China crisis will curtail student recruitment boom
Diplomatic row echoes Chinese disputes with US and Australia
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Plan S: how important is open access publishing?
The advent of Plan S promises to turbocharge the open access movement, but amid pushback from researchers and publishers, Rachael Pells examines whether the demand for published research truly merits...
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That’s driving me up the wall! Academics’ pet peeves
The scholarly calling may be all about intellectual pursuits, but university life is not without its petty irritations. A dozen academics describe the daily distractions that annoy them most
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Gospels before the Book, by Matthew D. C. Larsen
This appraisal of the gospels does not transform our understanding of them, says Robert A. Segal
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Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity, by Akbar S. Ahmed
Migrants’ stories remind us of the paradox of a comparatively affluent Europe that shows a lack of compassion for outsiders, writes Amina Yaqin
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What are you reading? – 24 January 2019
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education, edited by Marc Spooner and James McNinch
Book of the week: resisting neoliberal managerialism won’t solve the academy’s problems, says Martin McQuillan
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Appointments – 24 January 2019
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Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London, by Elizabeth F. Evans
Rebecca Bowler on how middle-class women saw and were seen in the metropolis
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Late-Life Love: A Memoir, by Susan Gubar
Deborah Rogers on a testament to literature’s power to sustain life in the face of the indignities of disease and age
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Books editor’s blog: seeing the photogenic side of science
Matthew Reisz discovers how intricate details in objects and substances can be captured with even the most basic equipment
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Paul Taylor, 1973-2018
Tributes paid to leading research integrity expert