Australia and Asia: the academic foreign exchange
John Ross examines the state of cross-study and collaboration between Australia and its neighbours in the East
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European Union seeks to crack open big tech’s data for academics
Social scientists argue a lack of access stops them and the public understanding online phenomena – but hope pressure from Brussels could change this
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Campus bookshops should reinvent themselves as cultural co-ops
Amazon may have killed the traditional business model but a physical store remains an asset for the academic community, says Paul Kelly
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Academics must not give up on monographs
Producing ‘real’ books builds academics’ collective public presence, and it is also the most irresistible scholarly challenge, says Ödül Bozkurt
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In 2048, information is unchained and even schoolgirls win Nobel prizes
The abolition of publishers and the bypassing of Big Tech is a prerequisite for maximising the power of science, says Andy Farnell
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What academics really do on their summer ‘holidays’
A long break sounds luxurious but what is the reality? Scholars share what they did with their ‘free’ time
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Acclaim and anxiety as Australia streamlines funding bids
Researchers support drive for quality over quantity but warn of unintended consequences
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Research intelligence: how to get past writer’s block
Getting stuck for words is not just a plight felt by tortured novelists – here, academics share their top tips for productivity
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Florida professors win free speech court battle
Backing university professors seeking to testify in voting case against state, federal judge compares US conservatives to Chinese dictators
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Can the academy rein in Big Tech?
The grip of Silicon Valley on commerce and culture is huge and ever-growing. But as concerns mount about tech firms’ ethics, is there anything that universities – with vastly lower research and...
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Research intelligence: how to run a research team remotely
As campuses and labs close amid the coronavirus crisis, Jack Grove hears how senior scientists are managing their teams and research projects
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China journal crackdown ‘a band-aid rather than a cure’
Major science organisation targets periodicals publishing too many papers or high proportion of brief articles
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Research grant veto powers need guidance, Australian scholars say
Researchers press for ministerial code of conduct amid fears that latest political intervention may never be resolved
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Publishing more than they are reviewing? Reject!
The crisis in peer reviewing can be overcome if journals and universities do more to incentivise it, say Dirk Lindebaum and Peter Jordan
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Academics ‘will have to adapt as AI takes on teaching’
Australian report suggests scholars should ‘focus on areas where AI is ineffective’