Structured Abstract Purpose The aim of this paper is twofold, firstly to discuss the current and future issues around pre and post publication open peer review. Secondly to review some of the main protagonists and platforms that encourage open peer review, pre and post publication. Approach The first part of the paper aims to discuss the facilitators and barriers that enable and prevent academi...

This summary is extracted from the report of the same title published by the Publishing Research Council (PRC) and reproduced here by kind permission of the PRC. The full report and a shorter edited version can be found on the PRC website at http://www.publishingresearch.net/PeerReview.htm. Peer review is seen as an essential component of scholarly communication, the mechanism that facilitates ...

Connecting discipline scholars with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is accepted as an essential part of professional academic practice across the higher education sector irrespective of discipline. To connect meaningfully with teaching practice, SoTL needs to be translated by the discipline scholar and narratives related to the discipline context constructed. Previous work on di...

University teaching and learning has been a contentious issue for many decades. This was largely due to the tension between the predominant functions of universities, namely, research, teaching, and service or leadership (Dewar, 2002). Traditionally, research has been perceived by academics as the more prestigious activity due to its potential to contribute to the knowledge base, build scholarl...

Considering Canada's Tri-Council statement on the ethical conduct for research involving human subjects, we discuss some of the ethical challenges of doing research on teaching and learning in which one's own students and teaching act as the context of such scholarly activity. We advocate establishing basic principles based in the complex relationships in teaching and learning, making reference...

This paper demonstrates that advanced technologies and the increasing acceptance of academic open access e-journals offer an opportunity to reconsider their form and function as a medium to enhance scholarly communication. The academic open access e-journal is envisioned as a platform and a portal within the context of an open source community including a format and functions that enable it to ...