Monthly Archives: January 2011

Refereeing papers: is it time for open reviews?

For reasons that I can’t fully articulate, I’ve been frustrated with the quality of publications in many of our supposedly leading journals. Two decades of publishing my own work have taught me that there is huge variability in reviewer quality …

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The big society or local socialism? Public library future under ‘review’ in Yorkshire

Nice video piece from The Guardian covering the closure of libraries in Yorkshire, a situation described as the creation of the big society by a government keen to utilize local volunteers to run public services no longer deemed sustainable or …

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