European Union Steps Back From Open-Access Leap 
Date posted: March 1, 2007
Europe took center stage last week in the growing battle for free access to the results of publicly funded research. An online petition, signed by almost 14,000 researchers and 500 research organizations in the European Union (E.U.) and presented here at the start of a 2-day meeting, asked the European Commission to take bold action on so-called open access. Traditional scientific publishers launched a counteroffensive, arguing that the future of scientific communication--as well as their €3 billion European industry--is at stake.
By Martin Enserink
Science, 23 February 2007
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2008 U.S. BUDGET: Research Rises--and Falls--in the President's Spending Plan
Date posted: March 1, 2007
Just as he has stayed the course in Iraq, President George W. Bush has stuck to his guns with his budget proposals. On 5 February, he sent Congress a 2008 budget request for science that favors a handful of agencies supporting the physical sciences and puts the squeeze on most of the rest of the federal research establishment as part of an overall $2.9 trillion plan that clamps down on most civilian spending.
By Jeffrey Mervis*
Science, 9 February 2007
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Cash for Papers: Putting a Premium on Publication
Date posted: June 22, 2006
Financial rewards for publishing high-profile papers are spreading. Starting
later this month, South Korean researchers will receive US$3,000 from the government when they publish in
elite journals.
By Ichiko Fuyuno and David Cyranoski, Tokyo
Nature
June 14, 2006
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Credit Where
Credit's Due
Date posted: April 28, 2006
Disputes over who
truly deserves the credit — or blame — for
published work can result in bruised egos,
damaged careers and court cases. Helen Pearson
looks at ways to avoid fights over authorship.
By Helen Pearson
Nature
March 30, 2006
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Undergraduate
Research Experiences: Synergies between
Scholarship and Teaching
Date posted: February 28, 2006
For good reason,
undergraduate student-faculty collaborative
research opportunities are firmly embedded in
the landscape of the New Academy.
By Tim Elgren and Nancy Hensel
Peer
Review
Winter 2006
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Bush Budget
Generous to Physical Sciences but Gives
Biomedical Research a Flat Line
Date posted: February 15, 2006
President Bush's
budget for academic science in 2007 may inspire
researchers in the physical sciences to pop
Champagne corks, but many biomedical researchers
will be looking for their aspirin bottles.
By Jeffrey Brainard
The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 17, 2006
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Ethics for the Next Generation
Date posted: January 13, 2006
Troubling reports about the ethics and professional conduct
of university presidents, faculty members in fields as diverse as history and the sciences,
and biomedical researchers have been sharing space in news columns recently with accounts of
the greedy misdeeds of business and political leaders.
By Philip J. Langlais
The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 13, 2006
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The Academic Job Market Is Bad for All of Us
Date posted: January 13, 2006
Nearly 1 million full- and part-time faculty members teach at some
3,400 colleges and universities in the United States. At some point, all of these faculty
members have participated in the academic labor market as a buyer or a seller. Social
scientists often characterize the higher education market as inefficient and idiosyncratic.
Yet conventional rules governing terms of exchange are inappropriate and unworkable in
academia. In this article, I examine the structure of the U.S. higher education market
and explore how major shifts in it over the past half century have increased inequality
and stratification among faculty members and institutions.
By Ted I. K. Youn
Academe
Nov-Dec 2005
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How to Grade a Dissertation
Date posted: January 13, 2006
The PhD dissertation is the ultimate educational product.
It reflects the training of its author and the technical, analytical, and writing skills he
or she developed in a doctoral program. Successful completion of the dissertation and the award
of the PhD certify that the degree recipient can do independent scholarly work. That much
is generally agreed. But who decides what an acceptable dissertation looks like? What are
the standards by which faculty evaluate dissertations?
By Barbara E. Lovitts
Academe
Nov-Dec 2005
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First-Tier Universities
Offer Tenure-Track Career Flexibility According To
ACE Survey
Leading universities in the United
States are building flexibility into the
tenure-track career path, according to the results
of a survey of 26 first-tier higher education
institutions released today in advance of the
conference Advancing an Agenda for Excellence:
Creating Flexibility in Tenure-Track Faculty
Careers.
American Council on Education
(ACE)
Sept. 22, 2005
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Research Grants: The Nightmare
Before Funding
Asked to name one thing they hate about their
jobs, many scientists say grant applications.
Nature's reporters have asked researchers just why
the process is so frustrating, and what can be done
to improve matters
By Jim Giles
September 15, 2005
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The Hand that Feeds
The efficiency of research agencies and their
responsiveness to grant applicants vary widely
around the world. It is time for the laggards to
reform.
Nature.com, Editorial
September 15, 2005
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Productive Procrastination
Avoidance can be fruitful, providing you have plenty
to do while postponing the most dreaded task.
By Thomas H. Benton
October 14, 2005
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Job-Talk Blues
Relax. The job talk is just a short, casual way for
us to get to know you -- then judge you, ridicule
you, and use you as a pawn in our vicious
intradepartmental rivalries, writes Cary Nelson, a
professor of English at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
By Cary Nelson
October 14, 2005
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Princeton Resets Family-Friendly Tenure Clock
Princeton
University wants to level the field for tenure-track
faculty members starting a family. Starting this
fall, both men and women who become parents will
receive an automatic tenure extension. This
first-of-its kind policy is seen as one way to help
boost the number of tenured women in science and
engineering departments.
By Yudhijit
Bhattacharjee
August 26, 2005
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An
Analysis of U.S. Practices of Paying Research Participants
Despite controversy
about paying research subjects, little is known
about actual practices in the U.S., including what
type of studies offer payment, to what type of
subjects, and how amounts are determined.
By Grady C, Dickert N, Jawetz T, Gensler G, Emanuel E.
Mar 28, 2005
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Some Study Participants Paid, Others Not
The first study of its kind to look at whether
Australians are paid for taking part in research has
revealed inconsistencies between institutions.
By Anna Salleh
September 13, 2005
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The GrantDoctor: Tough Times at NSF
It seems that everybody you talk to in National
Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientific
disciplines has an NSF-related story to tell these
days, and usually that story doesn't have a happy
ending.
The GrantDoctor
August 12, 2005
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Reviewers Can Help Get Your Paper Published
It's the closest most
scientists will come to picking their own jurors.
Amid all the checklists, bibliographic information,
and file-attachment instructions, the manuscript
submission forms of many journals ask authors a
simple question: Are there any individuals you would
like to suggest or exclude as potential reviewers?
By David Grimm
September 23, 2005
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Mind Matters: Managing Conflict in the Lab
When psychologist
Alan Leshner, now Chief Executive Officer of the
AAAS
was director of the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), he
used to quip that space was the last frontier. No,
not outer space. Office space. At NIMH, there was
never enough space, Leshner was suggesting, and this
was a constant source of bickering among peers and
complaints to supervisors.
By Irene S. Levine
September 23, 2005
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Mind Matters: On Balance
My
cell phone rings while I'm immersed in writing a
manuscript at my office. A publication deadline is
looming, but my teenage son needs help with a
calculus problem, now. Putting on my "Good Mother"
hat, I stop to help him. When I return to my task, I
realize that I've lost not only an important
reference but also my train of thought.
By Irene S. Levine
July 22, 2005
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