Dear Friends,

Susan Goff from Australia has just alerted us to what may appear to be  a rather esoteric but interesting development, the removal of so-called quality rankings for scholarly journals in merit and quality assessment measures for scholars in Australia.  These regulations have had a negative impact on academics doing engaged scholarship.  I hope that this is an indication of the pendulum beginning to swing in at least a minor way in the directions for which many of have been advocating.

The link is here:  http://bit.ly/mkIQUC

Cheers,

Budd