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The rejection culture of academia is damaging. Rejections are inevitable, but there are better ways of managing the process that don't leave individuals to bear the whole burden of coping.
In many other countries, a majority of research publications are now open access, but the system of paying for access still dominates academic publishing in Australia.
We wanted to investigate how the People's Republic of China and countries in Africa work together in science and technology.
The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It's a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
In South Africa, open access publishing should be mandatory and publicly funded data generated by universities, should be freely available.
Digital publishing hasn't resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars' labor.
Western and northern blots help scientists identify specific proteins and RNA molecules in experimental samples. But results can be manipulated.
Women are underrepresented in academic science. New research finds the problem is even worse in terms of who authors high-profile journal articles – bad news for women's career advancement.
Indonesia has the potential to make important contributions through academic research and the dissemination of knowledge emerging from Indonesian universities.
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MacKenzie Smith is a Friend of The Conversation.University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Honorary Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Program Lead, Innovation in Knowledge Communication, Curtin University
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Honorary Research Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Professor of Zoology and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Member of EduKnow Research Group at the University of Tampere (Finland), Tampere University
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Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
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Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
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Ph.D Candidate in Psychology, University of Washington
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town
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DST-NRF SARChI Chair in Innovation Studies, Tshwane University of Technology
