Tag: Academic publishing
Peer review, fake knowledge, and the quest for simple and useful science
Peer review is the process that most academic journals use to check the credibility of papers submitted to them. Typically, the editor chooses two or three ‘peers’ – academics working in the same field – and sends them a copy of the paper to review. When the reviews come back, the editor then decides whether to publish the paper unaltered […]
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Towards a new model of academic publishing
Academic publishing: the dinosaur in the room Technological advances in the past 20 years – principally the internet – have changed our lives beyond what we could ever have imagined. Just think how easily we get information, the speed with which we can do that and the variety of sources from which it can be obtained. Tertiary education once exclusively […]