My article  “Open Access: Towards Fairer Access to Research” is up on the Impact of Social Sciences blog.

There I argue that practical and sustainable ways of increasing access to scholarly materials will require a more thorough transformation of the…

I am writing this from Mexico City. Last Thursday I gave a lecture at the lifelong learning division of theschool of humanities at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. 

The topic was "Blogging as a Tool for Teaching and Research", and even though my personal perspective has been defined by the arts, humanities and social sciences, the lecture's scope included other academic…

"It is possible," says the doorkeeper, "but not at the moment."

-Franz Kafka, 'Before the Law'

I know: that term, 'paradigm shift'. It embodies its own contradiction: easier said than done.

Declarative rather than performative. Simply saying it does not make it…