Sentences with phrase «transformtion of academic publishing»

He's currently writing about the history of academic publishing and different conceptions of ownership and evaluation in academia.

«This is an important agreement for both the IET and EEFOCUS,» said Daniel Smith, Head of Academic Publishing at the IET.

BERLIN — In a third - floor conference room here overlooking the famous Potsdamer Platz, once bisected by the Berlin Wall, the future of academic publishing is being negotiated.

As part of Springer Nature, we are proud to uphold an unbroken tradition of over 170 years of academic publishing.

Predatory journals have become the scourge of academic publishing over the last few years.

Unfortunately, the world of academic publishing is even more notoriously difficult to break into than the world of trade publishing.

There's also the newly formed Author's Alliance, although their noble cause of furthering open access is more appropriate for non-fiction authors of academic publishing.

Ahead of an Insights Seminar at London Book Fair, SAGE Publishing's Kiren Shoman talks with Copyright Clearance Center's Christopher Kenneally about factors in a digital transformtion of academic publishing.

«Our mission is to help college students improve their writing, research, and critical thinking,» its website said, but it has been used for a wide range of academic publishing.

The core of academic publishing is in textbooks, monographs (detailed written studies, either long or short, of a specific subject) and books intended for an audience mainly outside academia.

The world of academic publishing is no stranger to controversy, especially with the requirement from many schools that professors «get published or get out.»

Last year was tumultuous for swathes of the academic publishing industry, and the willingness to engage with digital models is visibly on the rise.

The number of cases of academics publishing popular novels rather than scholarly works is small, and most people who do publish fiction publish it pseudonymously....

Now, McGraw - Hill Education's highly - innovative LearnSmart platform is addressing one of the key obstacles plaguing both professors and students, namely, the proprietary nature of academic publishing companies.

In «considering the hard - won lessons of the academic publishing journey,» our FutureBook 2015 programme this month was organised by Bookseller editor Philip Jones to place... Read more

The Kindle family, in particular the Kindle DX line, are well placed to cash in on the strength of academic publishing.

For example, one author on the anti-geoengineering blog «Bye Bye Blue Sky» notes research on the consolidation of academic publishing by five or six corporations, quoting a Nobel Laureate who calls the peer review system «corrupt.»

[/ note] In fact, the pattern of academic publishing rather better supports the contrary view, that perhaps, very widespread academic discussion of adaptation may have supported and enabled climate deniers and vested interests to resist effective mitigation policy in the US and many other countries.

But, I have concerns about the notion that blogging will soon become the choice method of academic communication, or, worse yet, the notion that blogging ought to replace traditional forms of academic publishing.

Supportive community member of the university with a strong history of academic publishing.

Discover the ins and outs of academic publishing in a conversation with Marcel van Aken, Editor of International Journal of Behavioral Development, in our inaugural ISSBD vodcast.

Not exact matches

Research published in the Journal of Consumer Research revealed that «consumers want to be happy, and marketers are increasingly trying to appeal to consumers» pursuit of happiness,» a position that continues to be reinforced both in marketing and academic research.

A recently published academic paper in the Journal of Monetary Economicsfound that a single trader likely drove the price of bitcoin from $ 150 to $ 1,200 during a two - month period in 2013 on the Mt. Gox Exchange.

... in 2015, University of Toronto sociologist Melissa Milkie published a study showing that the amount of time children aged 3 to 11 spent with parents had no measurable impact on their emotional well - being, behavior, or academic success.

None other than Charles Darwin wrote the first academic investigation into body language, his «The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,» published back in 1872.

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

In Kilduff's most recent research, which has yet to be published, he finds that U.S. universities engaged in a long - standing rivalry (Harvard vs. Yale, USC vs. UCLA) benefit from increased merchandise sales, as well as a a higher proportion of alumni who donate to the school, even after controlling for factors like academic and athletic rank.

A professor of information engineering at the University of Cambridge, he's published more than 250 academic papers and in 2014 received a $ 750,000 Google Award for an artificial intelligence project.

Earlier this year, researchers published an academic study examining the long - term stock performance of companies that had won the Corporate Health Achievement Award, an annual prize that the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has bestowed since 1996.

According to an article published by the American Journal of Play, the use of adult coloring books (or play in general) can improve career and academic success, reduce stress and encourage an innovative work performance.

Private money going to startups more than four years past their first funding round «has grown by a factor of 20 since 1992,» according to an academic paper published last year by the California Institute of Technology and Cornerstone Research.

Meta — which, in the words of cofounder Sam Molyneux, uses «artificial intelligence to analyze new scientific knowledge as it's published» — partners with academic journals to access many thousands of scientific papers and draw insight from them (beyond the keywords, that is) with the help of a machine learning tool developed by SRI International, which created Apple's spectral personal assistant, Siri.

But instead of «performance indicators,» U of T's 16th - place reputation ranking is based on the «subjective judgment,» or opinions of published academics occupying senior positions at their places of research.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

Its research activities seek to develop actionable, prescriptive theory that can guide general managers in the decisions they must make, re-invigorating general management research by following a proven research process, refining it through collaboration with practitioners, and then distributing it to a broad audience In pursuit of these goals, the Forum both hosts conferences to bring together academic experts, leading practitioners, and Harvard Business School alumni to develop current ideas and engages in extensive publishing activities.

Mr. Musuraca has published a number of papers on labor affairs and urban history and politics in academic journals.

APF Canada Disclaimer: Given the controversial nature of this topic, APF Canada has attempted to provide a transparent, fact - based backgrounder that, while referencing the main studies published to date on the issue of foreign - ownership in Vancouver real estate, does not delve into a rigorous academic critique of these studies.

Mike is a member of the ANSI / ISO C++ Standards Committee and is widely published in academic and trade journals.

He published a number of articles in leading academic publications and received several teaching and research awards.

In her book Law and Reorder, published by the American Bar Association in 2010, she describes a legal profession «where the billable hour no longer works»; where attorneys, judges, recruiters, and academics all agree that this system of compensation has perverted the industry, leading to brutal work hours, massive inefficiency, and highly inflated costs.

He was founding Editor - in - Chief of International Tax and Public Finance, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers from 1994 — 2001.

They tend to publish out of academic interest or to advance the knowledge of wealth management professionals who handle large retirement accounts.

This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.

One of the four panelists at the hearing, Peter Conti - Brown, an Academic Fellow at Stanford Law School whose forthcoming book, The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve, will be published by Princeton University Press, also weighed in on the Fed's General Counsel.

Jon's original research on investing has been published in the academic peer - reviewed Financial Planning Association's Journal of Financial Planning.

She has published articles in several academic journals, including the Journal of Labor Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Public Policy, Social Science and Medicine, and the Review of Income and Wealth.

«Although published academic research overwhelmingly supports passive management and finds that trading frequency is inversely correlated with performance, there are indeed instances where at least some degree of intervention may be warranted,» says John H. Robinson, founder of Financial Planning Hawaii in Honolulu.

In 1705, Law published an academic paper in which he argued against the use of precious - metal backed currency in favor of «paper» or fiat currency, claiming that the use of fiat currency would stimulate commerce (Smant, 2001).

The fact that First Things published a long article on my book Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Existence is an honor even when the article is a critique, which — as usual in academic disputes — needs critique from my side as well («What Mercy Is,» March).

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.