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The leisurely pace of editing
I spent over half of my worktime today doing editing stuff—sending out most of the disposition e-mails to authors I owed (still have two or three left for tomorrow) and seeing if the new article is up yet (it is, but I’m too tired to vet an e-mail announcement, so that’s tomorrow’s first task). Reading […]
Open access and citations
Citation Advantages of Open Access Articles by Gunther Eysenbach is now available at the Public Library of Science Biology journal (which is open-access). It continues a line of literature exploring the citation advantages of open-access publications. Thanks to Donna Martinez for pointing this out on the AERA-L listserv.
Federal bill would require open-access publishing for funded research
The Washington Post has reported on a Senate bill that would require free online publishing of research results within six months of refereed publications for research from 11 federal agencies (those that have $100 million or more in funded projects). Groups with various interests in publishing are lining up on the expected sides—open-access advocates in […]
Book review of Willinsky’s The Access Principle
Thanks to A.G. Rud for noting the online publication in Teachers College Record of Gene Glass and my review of John Willinsky’s The Access Principle (which you can download for free).
Nichols, Glass, and Berliner
Today, Education Policy Analysis Archives publishes High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement by Sharon L. Nichols (U. Texas San Antonio), Gene V Glass, and David C. Berliner (both of Arizona State University). It’s a provocative article that argues that an extensive effort to look for relationships between high-stakes testing and state-level performance on NAEP from the […]