Open access gains ground
Half of scientific papers published in 2011 can be accessed online for free, a new study has suggested.
Search
-
-
Data miners strike gold on copyright
In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes.
-
Russell Group warning on GCSEs
The Russell Group has warned that private school pupils are more likely than state school counterparts to choose science and languages subjects at GCSE, which could give them an advantage in...
-
THE podcast: 22 August 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThe lack of female university vice-chancellors, Clearing 2013, and academics working late into the night and over weekends are all up for discussion in this week’s Times Higher...
-
Unplugged: my holiday from electronica
Camping and lecturing at a festival frees Kevin Fong from the digital prison
-
Prospect of gladiatorial fight puts women off push for top
Global project explores the paucity of female leaders in academia
-
‘Death threats’ in Thailand for UK whistleblower
Wyn Ellis, who made a plagiarism claim against an official, has received menacing calls
-
Russell Group earnings boost ‘statistically insignificant’
BIS study on graduate premium challenges research-intensive claims
-
Teaching with literature makes social sciences come alive
Students get deeper insights when writers and poets such as Dickens and Neruda are on the syllabus, David Aberbach argues
-
Off Piste – Drawing inspiration
Austin Williams on the possibilities and limitations of ‘taking a line for a walk’
-
-
-
Just keep talking
Space for reflection is an important issue in a noise-fixated society (“If silence is golden, we should invest in it during seminars”, Opinion, 8 August). However, I’m not sure that I concur with...
-
Painfully slow initiation
Far from ignoring the social divide apparent between our and our students’ use of social media and computers generally, many of us have been trying to explain this to enthusiastic innovators for...
-
Lamps go out over cosmos
Sarah Coakley’s project of talking up the role of cooperation and sacrifice in evolution is timely and has important implications beyond theology (“Giving but not yielding”, 8 August). But it would...