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  1. Shrinking volumes

    As academic bookselling declines, Susan Bassnett sees hope for authors and readers alike in web publishing.

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  2. Leader: The look's new, the goal is not

    The world, especially that of higher education, does not stand still. To continue to reflect the academy, we must also change.

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  3. University of Oxford: Battle of the book depository

    Oxford City Council's decision to refuse planning permission for the University of Oxford's proposed £29 million book depository is to be contested. The university believes that the depository, which...

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  4. Tough decision that merits a cry for help

    I wonder if your readers can help me with an ethical dilemma? I have been asked to referee an article that cites ten of my papers, but that (in my professional opinion) does not merit publication.In...

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  5. Sites for citations?

    While Tim Birkhead (Columnist, 4 January) is right in that mis-citation is a serious problem, his focus only on the training of researchers downplays the importance of access to the literature in...

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  6. Sites for citations?

    Many academics would agree with Tim Birkhead's insistence that articles should "cite the first reference to report a particular fact or concept". This is probably one of the reasons that universities...

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  7. Fellow traveller

    Your launch of a new-look ߣߣÊÓƵ coincides with my retirement from a career in higher education. I have been a regular reader since the beginnings of your esteemed organ in 1971, and...

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  8. Peerless ideas

    Stevan Harnad compares peer review to the "ragtag" generic panel (Letters, 4 January).Wikipedia is the most massively peer-reviewed publication in the history of publication, and every single article...

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  9. Peerless ideas

    Stevan Harnad complains about "so much noise and so little sense" in regard to the post-research assessment exercise metrics debate, but validation of a metric is not achieved by demonstrating...

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  10. Hourly paid progress

    Your anonymous contributor paints a vivid and depressing picture of the two-tier workforce that characterises higher education (Opinion, 4 January). The division between a relatively well-paid and...

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  11. Concrete reasoning

    Mary Evans' aesthetic preferences are very much par for the course in terms of the standard aesthetic preferences to be expected of Western academics (Opinion, 4 January). She does not warm to the...

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  12. All against poor policy

    It was heartening to see that you have finally come off the fence against the Department for Innovation, University and Skills' attack on adult and part-time higher education by withdrawing public...

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  14. Books of revelation

    Inebriated one-night stands, excruciating childhood crushes, entanglements and rows with peers ... What drives some academics, wonders Matthew Reisz, to turn confessional in print.

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  15. Are you reaching those at the back?

    Some academics routinely lecture to hundreds of students, but is this still the best way to teach? Tariq Tahir ponders the future of the lecture in an era of mass higher education.

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