The Cape Town Open Education Declaration BioMed Central Blog Thursday 10 April saw the publication of the Cochrane systematic review on oseltamivir and zanamivir, or Tamiflu (Roche) and Relenza (GlaxoSmithKline) to give them their better-known trade names. In short, the review found that Tamiflu doesn’t work quite as well as we thought; a finding that is the culmination of a four-and-a-half year battle for access to the raw data from the clinical trials. The authors – Jefferson, Heneghan and colleagues – uncovered what they characterized as ‘multisystem failure’, with poorly-defined endpoints and confusion as to the authorship and contribution of the clinical trials. They also found that all studies were conducted against placebo, rather than against current best practice. Overall, the reviewers felt that the published studies were … Read more Scientific journal publishing has undergone significant changes in the last couple of decades with the digital revolution and the rise of open access journals. Read more Read more Read more Read more Read more
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The political consequences of academic paywalls - Opinion The suicide of Aaron Swartz, the activist committed to making scholarly research accessible to everyone, has renewed debate about the ethics of academic publishing. Under the current system, academic research is housed in scholarly databases, which charge as much as $50 per article to those without a university affiliation. The only people who profit from this system are academic publishers. Scholars receive no money from the sale of their articles, and are marginalized by a public who cannot afford to read their work. Academic paywalls are often presented as a moral or financial issue. The impact of the paywall is most significant in places where censorship and propaganda reign. Publishing as a means to freedom In 2006, I wrote an article proving that the government of Uzbekistan had fabricated a terrorist group in order to justify shooting hundreds of Uzbek civilians gathered at a protest in the city of Andijon. 'Shielded from the people who need it most'
Montessori education Children working on the phonogram moveable alphabet[1] Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori and characterized by an emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child’s natural psychological, physical, and social development. Although a range of practices exists under the name "Montessori", the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) and the American Montessori Society (AMS) cite these elements as essential:[2][3] In addition, many Montessori schools design their programs with reference to Montessori's model of human development from her published works, and use pedagogy, lessons, and materials introduced in teacher training derived from courses presented by Montessori during her lifetime.[citation needed] History[edit] Montessori education spread to the United States in 1911 and became widely known in education and popular publications. Montessori education theory[edit] References[edit]
PhysMath Central Blog Regular visitors to the PhysMath Central site will have noticed that, following the pdf redesign at the start of this year, the online journal and article pages have also recently had an overhaul. See for yourself below and let us know what you think. The final stage of our redesign, the top level portal pages, will be happening later this summer. So I’m a bit late coming to this, but this is cool nonetheless. Hi all, We’ll be coming to the annual Biophysical Society meeting in San Francisco this weekend. We hope to see you there! Chris, Sally & HarpreetPhysMath Central An editorial in Europhysics News ( caught my eye recently as it is one of the few dissections of impact factors I have read which applies some scientific and logical thinking to the process of awarding impact factors to journals or individuals. Central to their point is the real purpose of references within scientific articles. Read more Read more
Free Online Classes | Online Learning | Academic Earth The neoliberal assault on academia - Opinion The New York Times, Slate and Al Jazeera have recently drawn attention to the adjunctification of the professoriate in the US. Only 24 per cent of the academic workforce are now tenured or tenure-track. Much of the coverage has focused on the sub-poverty wages of adjunct faculty, their lack of job security and the growing legions of unemployed and under-employed PhDs. Elsewhere, the focus has been on web-based learning and the massive open online courses (MOOCs), with some commentators celebrating and others lamenting their arrival. The two developments are not unrelated. Lost amid the fetishisation of information technology and the pathos of the struggle over proper working conditions for adjunct faculty is the deeper crisis of the academic profession occasioned by neoliberalism. The neoliberal sacking of the universities runs much deeper than tuition fee hikes and budget cuts. Thatcherite budget-cutting exercise Tuition soared and students turned even more to debt financing.
Open Monograph Press Open Monograph Press Open Monograph Press is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes and, scholarly editions through internal and external review, editing, cataloguing, production, and publication. OMP can operate, as well, as a press website with catalog, distribution, and sales capacities. Among the many features of OMP is its ability to… Handle edited volumes, with different authors for each chapter;Involve editors, authors, reviewers, designers, indexers, and others in book production;See submission through multiple rounds of both internal and external reviews;Utilize industry standard ONIX for bookseller metadata requirements (e.g., Amazon);Create document libraries for submissions, recording contracts, permissions, etc.
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