Rohan McWilliam is Professor of Modern British History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and reviews editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture. He is a past president of the British Association for Victorian Studies. His comments are made in a personal capacity and do not necessarily reflect the views of the JVC editorial board. My thanks to the editors of JVC and my colleagues in the History pathway at Anglia Ruskin for feedback on this blog. Reviewing, it’s fair to
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How do you use academic journals and social media?
Lucinda Matthews-Jones and Helen Rogers are writing a paper called ‘Doing Things Differently: Writing, Academic Journals and Social Media in the Online World’. Notwithstanding our title, we want to start by examining how our people currently access and engage with print and digital media. We would like to know about your experience and views, whether or not you regularly read journals, visit academic blogs and websites, tweet or use Facebook. We aim to map what our community is doing now, rather than what we ought
Read moreNew Year’s Resolution: Let’s Self-Archive
Helen Rogers (Liverpool John Moores Univeristy, Editor of Journal of Victorian Culture) In July 2012 the British government declared the UK would take the lead in accelerating the drive towards Open Access. It would kick-start a stuttering global movement by mandating that publicly-funded research in the UK must be published in open access journals. This was a bold policy turn, taken it would seem with little international consultation, to the so-called ‘gold’ or ‘author pays’ open access model where publication
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By Helen Rogers (Liverpool John Moores University) on behalf of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Victorian Culture A downloadable copy of this statement is available here: Open Access and the Future of Academic Journals November 2012 For those unfamiliar with the Finch Report, the full report and executive summary can be read here: http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/ History UK’s summary and responce to the Finch Report: History UK- Open Access Publishing Briefing and Strategy, 22 Nov 2012 Introduction On 16 July
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