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Open research has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha and Thomas Graves argue that when it comes to qualitative research, considerations around replicability, context-dependent…

I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...

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