Publishing and copyright licences: academics opt to keep control
Academics prefer to publish their research under the most restrictive forms of copyright, a survey has suggested
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Temporary reprieve on private cap despite number control concerns
For-profits welcome delay but may have to get ready for quality assessment, John Morgan writes
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Journal editors’ anonymous reviews criticised by Cope
Publication ethics committee issues new guidelines for peer review
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Here comes the boom, Aberystwyth promises
V-c aims for more international and postgraduate action
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News in brief - 4 April 2013
Research facilitiesSee and shareA national database to allow equipment and facilities to be shared across the sector has been launched. Led by the University of Southampton and funded by the...
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Campus round-up - 4 April 2013
Source: Russell SachWearing wellResearch by a university’s neuroscientists has inspired catwalk fashion for a unique scheme. The Changing Minds project - involving neuroscientists at the University...
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News in brief - 4 April 2013
Canada‘Average’ cost of cutsThe board of governors at a Canadian university has warned the premier of its province that the major cuts announced in the provincial budget will “set [it] back by many...
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On the menu: takeaway lessons of a lifetime
Historian invites former students to dinner as part of ‘retirement odyssey’
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Jagged little pills
Recent research in Germany reveals that one in five students “takes something” to improve academic performance. The substances can range from fairly innocuous caffeine tablets to Ritalin,...
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Grant winners - 4 April 2013
Wellcome TrustInvestigators in Medical HumanitiesThese awards range from approximately £500,000 to just over £1 million for up to five yearsAward winners: Mark Thomas and Ian BarnesInstitutions:...
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THE Scholarly Web - 4 April 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Ian Noble, 1960-2013
A lecturer who inspired his students “to change the world of design” has died.
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Appointments - 4 April 2013
University of LincolnHugh ByrdHugh Byrd, who has just joined the University of Lincoln as professor of architecture, joked that he must be “crazy” to swap New Zealand for the East Midlands. “I have a...
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Scramble for Africa
The continent’s burgeoning economies could prove a major source of future student recruitment, says Marguerite Dennis
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Parallel parking
In an alternative universe, Christopher Bigsby is coining it in Vegas