Has Alexandra Elbakyan changed the academic publishing world?
Two years ago, writer Simon Oxenham at Big Think broke the story of Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan dubbed the...
Two years ago, writer Simon Oxenham at Big Think broke the story of Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan dubbed the...
It’s fall, which means that my fourth year undergraduate planning studio at Dalhousie University’s School of Planning is working on...
Last September, I took a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. Even though the position...
When I received an offer from the University of Oregon to become a visiting assistant professor this fall, I decided...
The Canadian Association of Postdoctoral Scholars has recently published a report on the state of the estimated 9,000 postdocs in...
My last two posts have presented some of the problems with the peer-reviewed publishing process that young researchers in urban...
In my last post, I discussed some of the problems with the North American publishing model as it applies to...
The main purpose of a scholarly journal is to report on original research or experimentation in order to make such...
Many have argued for broader public access to academic research. Few, however, considered it as important as internet activist Aaron Swartz....
Researchers are often accused of working in “ivory towers” separated from the real world. Perhaps planning suffers less from this...