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Portable Journal Acceptance?

In a changing market, authors increasingly find themselves negotiating with publishers to see their work to completion, even after they successfully navigate academic peer review, writes, Michael S. Evans. The solution is to make journal acceptance portable.
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The Case for Open Review

Open access is not fully realized without open peer review, which would provide opportunities for scholarly dialogue and critique throughout the writing process and beyond, argues Alex Mueller.

When Service Learning Doesn't Really Serve

Too often, service learning prioritizes students over the people with whom they work, Randy Stoecker argues in a new book.

Leave It in the Bag

Study by faculty members at West Point finds students perform better academically when laptops and tablets are banned from the classroom.

Tenure After Teaching Intelligent Design

Controversial Ball State U professor earns tenure despite past allegations that he pushed creationism in the science classroom.
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An Administrator, Writing

Monica F. Jacobe provides five rules to help people with Ph.D.s who still want to produce scholarship yet work in professional jobs that don't demand or reward it.
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Philosophy at Home

The mission of land-grant universities can encourage philosophy as a discipline to return to an outward focus that addresses the most complex challenges of our time, write Christopher P. Long and Michael O'Rourke.

Researchers Attacked -- and They Answer Back

Republican senator renews debate over federal support for studies whose significance is not immediately apparent.