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Kelvin K. Droegemeier – MIT Press, 2023
The academic research enterprise is highly complex, involving multiple sectors of society and a vast array of approaches. In "Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise," Kelvin K. Droegemeier shows next-generation scholars across all disciplines how to become more productive earlier in their career, as well as how to help shape the…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Competition, College Faculty, Grants
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Narasimharao, B. Pandu, Ed.; Wright, Elizabeth, Ed.; Prasad, Shashidhara, Ed.; Joshi, Meghana, Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
Higher education institutions play a vital role in their surrounding communities. Besides providing a space for enhanced learning opportunities, universities can utilize their resources for social and economic interests. The "Handbook of Research on Science Education and University Outreach as a Tool for Regional Development" is a…
Descriptors: Science Education, Guides, Outreach Programs, School Community Relationship
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Tobin, Thomas J. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2014
Administrators in higher-education institutions are faced with an often-conflicting landscape of laws, court cases, adopted practices, rules of thumb, and folk wisdom related to copyright concerns on their campuses. Ask any ten faculty member and receive ten different responses about what constitutes fair use, who owns content created for courses,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Copyrights, Legal Responsibility
Thompson, Celia; Pennycook, Alastair – Education Canada, 2008
In this article, the authors argue that while the term plagiarism has long been used as an unhelpful and moralistic catch-all to describe a range of textual "crimes." educators are moving into an era of both increased diversity of student populations and increased capacity to detect textual borrowings through new forms of software. To rely on the…
Descriptors: Feminism, Plagiarism, Ownership, Literary Devices
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Madsen, Kenneth D. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2008
In this article, the author makes a case for a greater understanding of Native research and how the academy can learn from it to become more sensitive to the concerns of the research constituencies. How academics handle the intellectual property that results from their research is also critical. What they make public and what they decide is better…
Descriptors: Intellectual Property, American Indian Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
Barrett, G. Jaia, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2006
ARL is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). ARL reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff, and users; higher education…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Communication (Thought Transfer), Scholarship, Information Policy