(11 Feb 2023) Thailand’s Higher Education Ministry has instructed universities to check the sources of all research papers produced by academics to ensure strict compliance with academic ethics. It is expected to make it necessary for those applying for academic positions and promotions to include ‘community-based studies’ among their citations in a bid to move…
(13 Feb 2023) The world of open access (OA) academic publishing is not a fair or inclusive space as recent conversations and older conversations show. OASPA recognises that OA at any cost is not acceptable, and is mindful of inequities introduced by the current (fully-OA and transitioning) publishing landscape; in removing the paywall to read…
(6 Feb 2023) Despite being the focus of sustained critique university rankings have proven a resilient feature of academic life. Considering the recent moves by U.S. institutions to remove themselves from rankings, Julian Hamann and Leopold Ringel explore this relationship and suggest rankers and their critics in fact play a role in sustaining each other.…