"academic network" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a network of academics or academic institutions that collaborate or communicate with one another. For example, "The university has a strong academic network with other leading universities around the world."
In 1990 BITNET merged with CSNET, a computer science and engineering academic network, to form CREN Corporation for Research andd Educational Networking).
Inviting leading researchers to give lectures kept him in touch with a wide academic network and new developments.
By the time the academic network was shut down in 1996, it connected 6.6 million host computers and extended to 93 countries.
Aspiring academics, he said, would thank teachers, parents, grant makers and others to "emphasize that they depend on an academic network and that they belong to it".
One reason may be that the rapid rise of the internet, originally an obscure academic network funded by America's Department of Defence, took everyone by surprise.
Professor Largier says: "The author of an academic book often lays out his entire academic network in the 'acknowledgment,' emphasizing not only aspects of professional gratitude but also emotional relationships: friendships, hardships, help.
In Europe several small academic networks were linked to the growing North American network.
Computers speaking FAST can share a network with other machines using standard TCP.With some office and academic networks now approaching similar speeds, FAST could have widespread applications.
Access to online resources, networks and social media have the potential to transform the PhD process, allowing researchers to reach out and participate in academic networks more often, more easily and more dynamically than ever before.
Twitter handle: @ConversationEDU A graduate of the University of Adelaide, Tamson lectures in Imperial and Colonial History in London and is the soon-to-be-published author of Universities and Empire: Academic Networks and the British World, 1850-1939.
But its ancient origins also mean that there has been little motivation to bring it in line with the security realities of 2014, rather than those associated with low-speed academic networks of the 1980s.
