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Where, when, why: academic authorship in the UK.

Pedersen, Sarah

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This article offers a snapshot of the status of and pressures on the academic author in the UK at the end of the twentieth century. The Research Assessment Exercise of 1996 and the Report of the Inquiry into Higher Education, published in July 1997, has made available new data on both these issues, and it thus seemed an appropriate time to begin to investigate the topics and to attempt to evaluate whether the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has academic authorship in the UK. The two subjects are closely intertwined since, as will be seen, the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) has intensified the pressure on academic staff in UK higher education institutions to publish - at all costs - but in certain areas and at certain times. It may be that the RAE is also a factor in the slow takeup of electronic journals and online scholarly publishing in the UK.

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PEDERSEN, S. 1998. Where, when, why: academic authorship in the UK. Journal of scholarly publishing, 29(3), pages 154-166.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 30, 1998
Online Publication Date Apr 30, 1998
Publication Date Apr 30, 1998
Deposit Date Apr 25, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of scholarly publishing
Print ISSN 1198-9742
Electronic ISSN 1710-1166
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 29
Issue 3
Pages 154-166
Keywords Academic authors; Statistics; Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA); UK universities; Teaching; Research; Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
Public URL http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2288
Publisher URL http://www.utpjournals.press/loi/jsp

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