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Health personnels´ experience with palliative care quality in Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemics: – a Norwegian - Swedish multi-center study
No full textKnowledge of healthcare personnel\u27s experiences with quality in palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic can contribute to quality improvement. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate healthcare personnel\u27s experiences of palliative care quality by identifying strengths and areas for improvement. This study is part of a Norwegian - Swedish multicenter study (PaQC-C19). In total, 268 participants answered two open-ended questions about strengths and areas for improvement, using the Quality from Patient Perspective instrument for palliative care (QPP-PC). Data was analyzed by qualitative content analysis. The findings showed that healthcare personnel’s endeavor to maintain the palliative care quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prerequisites for being able to do this included categories about collaboration, access to resources and support from management. Both strengths and areas for improvement were experienced within these categories. The findings highlighted the importance of systems that support healthcare personnel during pandemics and crises and may be transferred to contexts during ordinary conditions.Kunnskap om helsepersonells erfaringer med kvalitet i palliativ omsorg under COVID-19 pandemien kan bidra til kvalitetsutvikling. Hensikten med studien var derfor å undersøke helsepersonells erfaring med kvalitet i palliativ behandling og omsorg, ved å identifisere deres erfarte styrker og forbedringsområder. Studien er en del av en norsk-svensk multisenterstudie (PaQC-C19). Totalt 268 informanter besvarte to fritekstspørsmål om styrker og forbedringsområder fra spørreskjemaet Kvalitet fra pasientens perspektiv for palliativ omsorg (KUPP-PO). Data ble analysert med kvalitativ innholdsanalyse. Funnene viste at helsepersonell strakk seg langt for å opprettholde kvaliteten i palliativ behandling og omsorg under pandemien. Forutsetninger for å kunne strekke seg langt omhandlet kategorier som samarbeid, tilgang på ressurser og støtte fra ledelsen. Informantene erfarte at det innenfor disse både var styrker og forbedringsområder. Funnene viser viktigheten av systemer som støtter helsepersonellet under pandemier og kriser, og kan også ha overføringsverdi til kontekster under ordinære forhold
Tofta i Tjeldsund: Övervakning av grävning på boplassområde ifrån medeltid
No full textSenhösten 2025 utförde Norges arktiske universitetsmuseum en arkeologisk övervakning i Tjeldsunds kommune i samband med en utvidgning av ett dike som gick igenom en sedan tidigare känd gårdshög. Gårdshögen ”Tofta” är den först registrerade gårdshögen i Nordnorge och den undersöktes och skall ha jämnats ut i år 1874–1875.
Övervakningen påvisade en del av ett möjligt intakt kulturlager i dikets mest nordvästra del. Men i övrigt så var i det minsta denna del av gårdshögen utjämnad på så vis som beskrivs i texterna från 1800-talet. Ett tunnare lager med omrörd gårdshögsmassa kunde påvisas på flera platser i diket, och en del exempel på fynd samt två kolprover ifrån det möjligen intakta lagret plockades in. In late autumn 2025, the Arctic University Museum of Norway carried out archaeological monitoring in Tjeldsund municipality in connection with the expansion of a ditch that passed through a previously known farm mound. The farm mound “Tofta” is the first registered farm mound in Northern Norway, and it was investigated and supposedly levelled in 1874–1875.
The monitoring revealed part of a possible intact cultural layer in the most northwestern part of the ditch. A thinner layer of disturbed farm mound mass could be detected in several places in the ditch, and some examples of finds and two charcoal samples from the possibly intact layer were collected. Otherwise, it seems that at least this part of the farm mound was levelled in the way described in texts from the 19th century. Senhösten 2025 utförde Norges rktiske universitetsmuseum en arkeologisk övervakning i Tjeldsunds kommune i samband med en utvidgning av ett dike som gick igenom en sedan tidigare känd gårdshög. Gårdshögen ”Tofta” är den först registrerade gårdshögen i Nordnorge och den undersöktes och skall ha jämnats ut i år 1874–1875.
Övervakningen påvisade en del av ett möjligt intakt kulturlager i dikets mest nordvästra del. Men i övrigt så var i det minsta denna del av gårdshögen utjämnad på så vis som beskrivs i texterna från 1800-talet. Ett tunnare lager med omrörd gårdshögsmassa kunde påvisas på flera platser i diket, och en del exempel på fynd samt två kolprover ifrån det möjligen intakta lagret plockades i
Significado prospectivo en el español rioplatense: el caso de va + gerundio.: El caso de \u27va\u27 + gerundio
No full textEn este artículo nos proponemos analizar la lectura prospectiva de la perífrasis ir + gerundio en el español rioplatense. Esta estructura, que no ha sido trabajada anteriormente por la bibliografía, surge únicamente cuando el auxiliar se encuentra en presente simple, por lo que utilizamos la etiqueta “va + gerundio”. Luego de diferenciarla de la lectura canónica progresiva incremental de ir + gerundio, reconocemos las propiedades semánticas de la estructura, tomando como punto de partida para el análisis tres elementos inherentes al significado: la prospectividad, la inminencialidad y la vaguedad. Con respecto a los primeros dos, identificamos que la perífrasis denota propiamente aspecto prospectivo, que no es una interpretación disponible en ir a + infinitivo en esta variedad. El significado es de una situación inmediatamente anterior al evento del predicado: esta se interpreta como una fase preparatoria que continúa naturalmente hasta el evento. Con respecto al elemento de la vaguedad, la utilización de la perífrasis indica un bajo grado de compromiso del hablante con respecto a la realización del evento o las circunstancias asociadas. Para dar cuenta de estos elementos, proponemos un análisis desde la Semántica Formal, a partir del marco proporcionado por Heim & Kratzer (1998), conformado por dos componentes: un componente basado en intervalos que da lugar al significado temporal de forma composicional, mediante el aporte del auxiliar semigramaticalizado ir y el aporte del tiempo presente; y un componente modal que conceptualiza necesidad débil. Este segundo componente modal puede tener un matiz epistémico o deóntico.En este artículo nos proponemos analizar la lectura prospectiva de la perífrasis ir + gerundio en el español rioplantense. Esta estructura, que no ha sido trabajada anteriormente por la bibliografía, surge únicamente cuando el auxiliar se encuentra en presente simple, por lo que utilizamos la etiqueta “va + gerundio”. Luego de diferenciarla de la lectura canónica progresiva incremental de ir + gerundio, reconocemos las propiedades semánticas de la estructura, tomando como punto de partida para el análisis tres elementos inherentes al significado: la prospectividad, la inminencialidad y la vaguedad. Con respecto a los primeros dos, identificamos que la perífrasis denota propiamente aspecto prospectivo, que no es una interpretación disponible en ir a + infinitivo en esta variedad. El significado es de una situación inmediatamente anterior al evento del predicado: esta se interpreta como una fase preparatoria que continúa naturalmente hasta el evento. Con respecto al elemento de la vaguedad, la utilización de la perífrasis indica un bajo grado de compromiso del hablante con respecto a la realización del evento o las circunstancias asociadas. Con el objetivo de dar cuenta de estos elementos, proponemos un análisis basado en dos componentes: por un lado, un componente temporal que da lugar al significado de forma composicional, mediante el aporte del auxiliar semigramaticalizado ir y el aporte del tiempo presente; por otro lado, un componente modal que conceptualiza necesidad débil. Este segundo componente modal puede tener un matiz epistémico o deóntico, dependiendo de la fuerza ilocutiva de la oración
Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
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Within the context of Open Science, book publishing has traditionally lagged behind in the adoption of open access, open data and corresponding practices. Not-for-profit infrastructures including the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), the OAPEN Foundation, Open Book Collective (OBC), the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), and Thoth Open Metadata have joined forces to collaboratively develop open, community-led solutions to the many barriers faced by publishers when considering the creation, discovery, distribution, archiving and financing of open access (OA) books.
Our presentation will showcase a variety of innovative open metadata management, hosting, and distribution solutions tailored to tackle the problems of getting OA works into the wider book supply chain. We will show how Thoth enables publishers to create rich, fully open data in industry-standard formats, incl. ONIX (2.1, 3.0, 3.1) MARC21 & KBART for free, encouraging uptake of good metadata practice e.g. by integrating PIDs and controlled vocabularies as well as adhering to recent legislative reporting regulations. The resulting metadata is automatically released into the public domain (CC0), to facilitate easy re-use by e.g. libraries. Publishers can also either use the self-service option to export fully Crossref-compliant XML to directly register DOIs for books and chapters with Crossref themselves, or benefit from a dedicated Sponsorship route (via Thoth) and automated registration workflows that are available through the Thoth Plus service model.
Building on that open data, a variety of open dissemination workflows come into view. For example, PKP offers an open source book production and title management system, Open Monograph Press (OMP), which is now being integrated with both Thoth and DOAB/OAPEN to provide robust, free and open metadata management and dissemination workflows for books and chapters. Interoperability between the collaborating infrastructures means publishers can be supported with their website and catalogue hosting needs (by Thoth), with the distribution and archiving of OA book content and metadata to a variety of channels (by Thoth and OAPEN, and including Crossref, the Internet Archive, Portico, and the Thoth Open Archiving Network (TOAN)); have their content and metadata hosted in internationally-recognised discovery solutions (including DOAB & OAPEN); access privacy-respecting usage metrics across multiple platforms (via the OPERAS Metrics service, Thoth, and COKI); and in creating and managing collective funding channels for OA books via the Opening the Future programme and the Open Book Collective – two models supporting presses to transition away from a reliance on unsustainable author-facing fees (BPCs) through collective funding, with OBC also providing a means to financially sustain open infrastructure / service providers via voluntary contributions from supporting libraries.
All in all, this close collaboration between like-minded infrastructures – and with some of them (OAPEN & PKP) having existed for more than a decade – constitutes a collective, open, equitable ecosystem of interoperable not-for-profit services and platforms that are jointly active in a variety of international networks and communities, including the Copim community, OPERAS, COMET, the Knowledge Equity Network (KEN), and the Barcelona Declaration group of supporters.
Doing so, this dedicated group of infrastructures exemplifies a community- and values-led not-for-profit approach to supporting open access book publishing that is understood to live by the principle of \u27Scaling Small\u27 – a concept that "puts forward the idea that scale can be nurtured through intentional collaborations between community-driven projects that promote a bibliodiverse ecosystem while providing resilience through resource sharing and other kinds of collaboration" (Adema & Moore, 2021)
From Gatekeeping to Guidance: Building Fair and Reflective Editorial Practices
No full textEditorial work carries immense responsibility, especially given the considerable power editors hold to select or reject contributions at nearly every stage of the editorial process.
As editors of a scientific Scandinavian literature journal, we are constantly confronted with challenging questions such as: How do we decide which articles to desk-reject and which to forward for peer-review within a small research community like that of Nordic literature? How do we navigate the reality that peer review remains an invisible, unpaid form of academic labor? How do we select books for review without allowing personal preferences or connections to influence our choices? How can we promote diversity – both in terms of topics and contributors – when we depend on a limited pool of submissions, many of which are rejected early in the process due to quality concerns? How do we position ourselves in relation to AI as a new "actor" in the academic sphere? And, as an all-female editorial team, how does gender matter in our editorial practice?
These are just a few of the challenges we have encountered since taking on editorial responsibility for Edda – Nordisk Tidsskrift for Litteraturforskning in January 2025. Our goal has been to approach this work with as much transparency, fairness, and inclusivity as possible, while upholding the high scholarly standards for which the journal is known.
In our 90-minute workshop, we invite you to take part in an interactive discussion on how we, as a community of editorial practitioners, can collectively address these challenges and explore potential solutions.
We will also provide practical insights into the strategies we have developed, and continue to refine, in response to these challenges. Topics include how we integrate editorial practice with radical self-reflection, how we navigate conflicts of interest and bias, and how we are reimagining our collaboration with authors and reviewers by offering guidance within a dynamic process and structure, rather than acting as gatekeepers within a fixed, hierarchical setting
The current landscape of the Open Science Initiative in the ASEAN region
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The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) has served as a global guiding framework, encouraging regional organizations, countries, and institutions to make scientific knowledge openly available, reusable, inclusive, and transparent by promoting collaborative scientific practices for the benefit of science and society. Regional blocs, such as the European Union (EU), whose member states are connected by shared regional economic integration and interests, have proactively engaged in influencing knowledge ecosystems, advancing policies on open science, and sustaining collaborative dialogues within Europe’s research and scientific communities as exemplified in the EU open science policy (European Commission, 2016) and Plan S initiative (European Science Foundation, 2018). The African Union (AU) is also increasing momentum in supporting policies on collaborative open knowledge sharing through the endorsement of free trade agreements within the African continent and its policy commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Okafor et al., 2022). Several single-country and institutional efforts from Southeast Asia have demonstrated strong support for open-access publishing (Abidin et al., 2024; Awasthi et al., 2025; Irawan et al., 2022) and the development of open repositories (Lee-Hwa et al., 2013; Mostafa et al., 2024). However, such policy coherence, as seen in the EU and AU efforts to advance collaborative and regional-driven policy initiatives, remains underexplored in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). There is also a limited understanding of how ASEAN, as a regional bloc, supports open science in policy and practice. Thus, this presentation explores the current landscape of open science initiatives in the ASEAN region by addressing two questions: (1) How are ASEAN member states reflecting on the framework outlined in the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science? and (2) What are the current regional developments, including benefits, opportunities, and challenges, in shaping ASEAN open science policy? Using an exploratory review method, this study draws on peer-reviewed literature from Web of Science and Scopus, as well as grey literature from publicly available government portals and websites to identify emerging themes and patterns. This presentation aims to map the current landscape of ASEAN open science initiatives, highlighting the benefits, opportunities, and challenges, and revealing patterns of engagement and collaboration across ASEAN member states and their connection with other global actors in open science. The overall findings contribute to informing policy development and strengthening the ASEAN open science movement
The European Rights Retention Community of Practice: Building institutional capacity for Rights Retention across Europe.
No full textLaunched in December 2024 by SPARC Europe under the Knowledge Rights 21-funded Retain Project, the European Rights Retention Community of Practice (CoP) addresses critical gaps in implementing Rights Retention (RR) strategies and policies across European institutions. Despite RR being an important legal tool to enable open sharing of research, widespread adoption faces systemic barriers: copyright regulation, publisher resistance, common misunderstandings among researchers, or a lack of institutional policies.
The European Rights Retention Community of Practice (CoP) fosters collaboration, shares best practices, and strengthens collective advocacy efforts across borders. By creating a trusted space for knowledge exchange, the CoP is helping institutions transition from isolated advocacy to a coordinated European approach.
This poster highlights the CoP’s collaborative efforts to identify and address legal, institutional, and cultural barriers to Rights Retention, supporting a more coordinated and empowered transition to Open Science across Europe, including:
Legal and policy challenges: Differences in national copyright laws, institutional Intellectual Property and Open Access/Open Science policies, and employment contracts complicate RR implementation. The CoP facilitates knowledge exchange on legal frameworks, risk assessments, and policy harmonisation.
Publisher resistance: Some publishers actively oppose RR, requiring institutions to negotiate individually. The CoP enables members to share negotiation strategies and experiences. This knowledge exchange strengthens individual institutional positions when engaging with publishers, creating shared tools to overcome common barriers.
Researcher engagement: Many researchers fear journal rejection or see little value in retaining rights. The CoP supports shared advocacy strategies to better communicate the benefits of RR and simplify compliance.
Bringing together librarians, legal experts, research support professionals, Open Access advocates, institutional policymakers, non-profit institutional publishers, and researchers, the CoP pools expertise to navigate complex legal landscapes, engage constructively with publishers, and accelerate the move toward equitable Open Access. This poster invites participants to engage with the CoP’s work, explore its resources, and join a growing network committed to strengthening researchers’ rights across Europe
The first French dictionaries and the emergence of Aurore Boréale as a lexical entry: Introductory essay
No full textThe eighteenth volume provides an overview of the Aurore Boréale (northern lights, aurora borealis) as described in monolingual French dictionaries from the first half of the eighteenth century. The very first examples of such dictionaries – published in the 1680s and 1690s – had no coverage of the northern lights. Since 1701, however, the phenomenon was included in the following dictionaries: posthumous versions of Antoine Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel edited by Henri Basnage de Beauval (1701) and Jean-Baptiste Brutel de la Rivière (1727); the "Dictionnaire de Trévoux" edited by a group of Jesuits (editions from 1704, 1721, 1732, 1743); and the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise (third edition, 1740). The introductory essay by Muriel Brot and Per Pippin Aspaas contextualises the introduction of the northern ligths as a lexical term and provides English translations of relevant entries in the dictionaries. Digitisations of the original entries are included in facsimile.
This publication is based on a presentation given by Muriel Brot, research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Unité Mixte de Recherche of the Université Paris-Sorbonne), at an international workshop organised by the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ in Versailles, 23 January 2025
Transcript of [Om Nordlyset] (ms, 1748)
No full textThis file is a transcription of a manuscript [Om Nordlyset] by Lars Barhow (1748), based on photographs made by Per Pippin Aspaas. Formerly located at the institutional archive of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the manuscript is now kept at The Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet) in Copenhagen, filed under "Arkivskaber: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab". The transcription was made by Per Pippin Aspaas, by using the Transkribus software as a basis and then manually correcting the computer-generated transcript. The principles of a diplomatic edition have been followed, i.e. no correction of the original has been made, even in cases where it contains idiosyncratic spellings or obvious errors. Unintentional errors may, however, have been made during the transcription process. Exactly the same transcription is found embedded in the PDF of the manuscript, see https://doi.org/10.7557/16.8205
[Om Nordlyset] (ms, 1748)
No full textThis file is a digitized version of Lars Barhow\u27s manuscript on the Northern Lights, [Om Nordlyset] from around the year 1748, in the form of a PDF with fulltext-search functionality embedded. The transcription of the manuscript was made by Per Pippin Aspaas. For a detailed summary of contents, see his Introduction to this volume of Aurorae Borealis Studia Classica.This is a PDF with images of an untitled manuscript [Om Nordlyset] by Lars Barhow (1748), based on photographs made by Per Pippin Aspaas. Formerly located at the institutional archive of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the manuscript is now kept at The Danish National Archives (Rigsarkivet) in Copenhagen, filed under "Arkivskaber: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab". Fulltext searchability has been facilitated by the Transkribus software, with manual correction of the computer-generated transcript. For further details, see the Introduction by Per Pippin Aspaas