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Beyond Borders, Beyond Control: Building Resilient Open Science Infrastructures
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This panel explores how open science practices can safeguard both innovation and platform independence in an era where knowledge itself is a strategic commodity.
By way of example, the OLSPub initiative led by ZB MED in Cologne—a leading infrastructure and research center for life sciences data—panelists will showcase a sustainable, open alternative to reliance on third-party platforms and foreign jurisdictions.
Through practical discussion, the panel and audience will address steps policymakers and funders should consider, as well as actionable strategies librarians and researchers can already implement, to foster open platforms that remain independent of governmental agendas and geopolitical influences.
Indigenous Rights in Research: Future Needs for Involvement of Indigenous Perspectives
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Over the last decades, there has been a movement towards higher degree of recognition and involvement of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives worldwide. An integral and defining part of this development is the work of scholars (and activists) from all over the Indigenous worlds claiming the necessity of decolonization/Indigenization and the recognition of Indigenous rights. Today, this struggle is not over. But change has happened. Indigenous research is a growing field. The ethics and formalities of publication and data management are addressed in ways that aim to answer to the needs of Indigenous communities. This panel takes the current situation and diversity as a starting point and looks to the future needs and challenges, and asks how can we continue working for research practices that are FAIR and include CARE? How can we learn across different Indigenous contexts and areas? The panelists represent research communities from different parts of the global north with its variety of Indigenous cultures
From Publish-and-Read Deals to Diamond Open Access: How Library Budgets Can Support Non-Commercial Publishing
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In Norway, nationwide Publish-and-Read (PAR) deals with the world\u27s largest publishing houses have helped secure a high percentage of Open Access in recent years. However, the costs of these deals have also put the literature acquisition budgets of research libraries under severe strain. Early in 2025, cancellation of Norway\u27s Wiley PAR deal, combined with 25 % cost reduction in our Elsevier PAR deal, has given some room for manoeuvre. With inspiration from trailblazing European institutions and informed by consultations with editors of scholarly journals, the library of UiT The Actic University of Norway is now launching its own Diamond Open Access Programme, financed by savings in PAR deals.
Data from the national CRIS system shows that around 6 percent of the peer-reviewed articles written by researchers affiliated with a Norwegian institution were published in Diamond Open Access in the last several years. UiT now pledges to spend at least 6 percent of our literature acquisition budget on donations to Diamond publishing. Some of this money will be spent on international, non-commercial platforms and other infrastructure, but the main part will be reserved for stipends to UiT-affiliated editors of Diamond publishing outlets
Open science in a closing world
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The dissemination of scientific knowledge has long been a driving force behind technological and societal progress, and remains central to the vision of open science. However, shifts in the geopolitical landscape are reshaping the narrative around the role of science. Rapid technological advancements have placed science and innovation at the heart of global competition, raising concerns about the sharing of critical technologies and sensitive knowledge.
At the same time, science itself is increasingly being questioned. The inherent uncertainty in scientific findings is sometimes misused to dismiss even well-established results. Misinformation and disinformation undermine society’s ability to make evidence-based decisions and may also affect the reliability of outputs from large language models. These challenges are compounded by the rise of paper mills and a peer review system under pressure from the growing volume of publications. Together, these trends risk deepening the divide between science and society.
In this context, key questions arise: How can science—and open science in particular—respond to these global developments? How can researchers navigate environments where governments may seek to restrict the sharing of knowledge or limit the scope of scientific inquiry? And how can open science help safeguard scientific integrity and contribute to sustainable development in an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape
Transdisciplinarity in action: Co-Creating Ocean Literacy with Global Future-Shapers from Japan
No full textThe workshop on Co-creation of Knowledge in Ocean Literacy, organized as an interactive session during the Tsukuba Conference 2025, was chaired by Zia Madani and co-organized by Margherita Paola Poto, with the collaboration of Caroline Bohrer, Youna McGowan, Dana Ahmed, and Claudia D\u27Andrea. Endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade, the session aimed to explore innovative ways of integrating Japanese principles into legal and ethical frameworks, treating the Ocean as kin. The workshop was divided into two parts. The first part featured an illustrative performance, inspired by the KlimaSeniorinnen ECHR decision and enriched by Japanese principles of Kami (spiritual essence), Satoyama (harmony between humans and nature), and Wa (peace and harmony). The story revolved around three characters: Plastic Bag (Plik), Judge Whale, and mount Tsukuba, with the audience acting as the Court of the Ocean. The narrative highlighted the interconnectedness of humans, nature, and the ocean, emphasizing the urgent need for sustainable practices. In the second part, the audience was invited to deliberate, co-create and expose a decision or law that wove together the three Japanese principles in a way that respected and treated the ocean as a living kin. This participatory activity encouraged creative thinking and fostered a sense of responsibility toward the environment, aligning with the goals of the UN Ocean Decade to promote ocean sustainability and stewardship. The workshop is also an implementing activity of the Ocean Incubator Network Learning Toolkit (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78062-2) and a deliverable of the SDG Ocean Action Commitment: Ocean for All: Reimagining Justice with Love and Law.
Stone Age dwelling structures with several use-phases. Report from an excavation in Taborshamn, Hasvik municipality, Finnmark, 6–16 August 2018
No full textThe Stone Age Demographics project investigates demographic patterns, their background and implications at different scales. Stone Age sites typically are located at different heights above present sea level, which suggests different ages. Signs of reuse have previously been reported or indicated from a number of excavations of Stone Age sites in Scandinavia but have very rarely been a separate issue. The associated methodological and cultural- historical implications have been addressed to a very limited extent. The reuse issue is central to the Stone Age Demographics research project.
The site Taborshamn was first documented as part of the project fieldswork in 2017 and 2018 and consequently registered in the national archaeological site database Askeladden as ID 239398. Unfortunately, this information was later removed and replaced by a dwelling locality with ID 27272. Its description is based only on LIDAR data and is at present deficient and its delimitation wrong/too small. The site includes a large number of semi-subterranean dwelling structures from the Late Stone Age as well as some younger structures. The dwelling structures are situated along elevated beach ridge at different heights above present sea level and thus represent a long timespan. We considered the structures situated just at the transition between cobble stones and fly sand to be particularly suited for our archaeological investigation addressing age and reuse of Stone Age dwelling pits.
The investigation included three structures. In one practically the whole floor area was investigated, in the two others only up to one square meter in each floor area, directly linket to trenches established between the three structures. Effort was put on documetation of stratigraphical relations and changes within and between the structures. Profile benches were established as aid. In the structure where the total floor area was investigated changes in fireplaces/hearths were documented, among other things. A total of 168 charcoal samples were colleceted, in level and in sequences in profiles. 54 have been wood-determined and 26 dated. The dates represent a timespan of 5000 years, between 3500 cal BCE and 1450 cal CE. A Bayesian model of the dates suggests that multiple phases or episodes of use and reuse took place in all the structures, contemporaneous as well as separate. "Stone Age Demographics"-prosjektet undersøker demografiske mønster, deres bakgrunn og implikasjoner i ulike skalaer. På boplasser fra steinalderen ligger tuftene i ulike høyder over havet, noe som antyder ulik alder. Tegn på gjenbruk har tidligere vært rapportert eller indikert i en rekke utgravninger av steinaldertufter i Skandinavia, men har svært sjelden vært en egen problemstilling. De tilhørende metodiske og kulturhistoriske implikasjonene har i svært liten grad vært adressert. Gjenbruksproblematikken er sentral i forskningsprosjektet "Stone Age Demographics".
Lokaliteten Taborshamn ble første gang registrert i forbindelse med feltarbeid i prosjektet i 2017 og 2018, og i etterkant lagt inn i Askeladden som ID 239398. Dessverre er informasjonen fra registreringene siden fjernet i Askeladden, og en tuftelokalitet med ID 27272 er lagt inn. Lokalitetsbeskrivelsen i databasen, som er basert bare på vurdering av LIDAR-data, er p.t. mangelfull og avgrensningen feil/for liten. Lokaliteten omfatter et stort antall nedgravde tufter fra steinbrukende tid samt en del yngre strukturer. Tuftene ligger på strandvoller i ulike høyder rundt en skjermet bukt, og spenner derfor over et lengre tidsrom. Vi vurderte strukturene som lå akkurat i overgangssonen mellom rullestein og flyvesand som særlig egnet for en arkeologisk undersøkelse som tok sikte på å bidra til problemstillinger omkring alder på og gjenbruk av steinaldertufter.
Undersøkelsen foregikk i tre tufter på ulike høyder over havet, med felles/overlappende veggvoller. I den ene tuften ble tilnærmet hele gulvarealet undersøkt. I de to andre ble inntil en kvadratmeter undersøkt i tilknytning til sjakter som forbant alle tuftene med hverandre. Det ble lagt vekt på å søke å dokumentere stratigrafiske relasjoner og endringer innenfor og mellom strukturene. Profilbenker var et viktig hjelpemiddel. I strukturen der gulvarealet ble gravd ut ble det blant annet dokumentert flere endringer av ildsteder. Totalt 168 trekullprøver ble tatt ut, både i plan og i sekvenser i profiler i alle strukturene. 54 er treartsbestemt og 26 datert. Dateringene har et tidsspenn på 5000 år, mellom 3600 f.Kr. og 1450 e.Kr. Ved hjelp av Bayesiansk modellering kan det foreslås flere separate faser eller episoder av bruk og gjenbruk i alle strukturene, både samtidige og ikke samtidige.
Of reviews and women: A study of women discourses on gender in videogame magazines
No full textVideo games and their history are mostly seen from a masculine standpoint. Most traces, commentary, workers, communities, significant events or people, etc., are linked to a masculine lens that tends to ignore or marginalize women in video games and their culture. Even if they were clearly minorized in a masculine and sometimes hostile environment, there is a need to observe a part of history that gives us more information on the thought, the production, the influence, and the discourses of women without limiting them to the status of passive victims or to the margins of history. This article uses methods inspired by cultural history and textual analysis to investigate women’s discourses about women protagonists present in the game reviews of the specialized press covering video game culture and the video game industry. By doing so, we will observe a complex situation where different, and sometimes contradicting, intentions can be linked to how women characters are described, criticized, or mentioned in the reviews. As such, this analysis will show a cultural context where women’s writings are sometime influenced by the masculine hegemonic discourses made by or for a mostly gender restricted definition of the ‘gamers’, while other women’s text openly resist this hegemony by criticizing the way the many protagonists and women are represented. Women, their writing, and traces of their intention, can be seen in multiple magazines from 1981 to 2021. As such these public discourses are a small but important part of a more general and diverse history of video games and their communities
Excavation of a farmmound at Vassvik in Hadsel
No full textDeler av gardshaugen på Vassvik i Hadsel vart undersøkt av Universitetsmuseet tidsrommet 18.09.23 – 06.10.23. Det vart åpna to mindre område, eitt på nord-sida og eitt på sør-sida av noverande hovedhus på eigedomen, som til saman målte 33,6 m2. Av dette blei ca. 5,5 m2 detaljert undersøkt. Det vart dokumentert inntil 90 cm tjukke kulturlag, og funne kleber, jern, bein, tre, keramikk og lær. Funna gjenspeiler mange ulike typar aktivitetar, med noko ulik fordeling på dei to undersøkte områda. Eldste datering ligg til 1028 – 1152 og yngste til 1643 – 1797. Det er eit tydeleg opphør i busetjing på 1300-talet. Busetjinga har ei god plassering i forhold til utnytting av naturressursar, gardsdrift, fiske og hendelsnettverk/ferdselsveg.Parts of the farm mound at Vassvik in Hadsel were investigated by the University Museum between 18.09.23 and 06.10.23. Two smaller areas were opened, one on the north side and one on the south side of the current main house on the property, which together measured 33.6 m2. Of this, approximately 5.5 m2 was investigated in detail. Cultural layers up to 90 cm thick were documented, and clay, iron, bone, wood, ceramics and leather were found. The finds reflect many different types of activities, with somewhat different distribution in the two investigated areas. The oldest dating is from 1028 – 1152 and the youngest from 1643 – 1797. There is a clear cessation of settlement in the 14th century. The settlement has a good location in relation to the exploitation of natural resources, farming, fishing and event networks/roads
Teknologi gir nye muligheter, hvordan ta den i bruk på tundraen?
No full textTeknologi har åpnet nye dører for terrestrisk overvåking som kan hjelpe å besvare nye og gamle spørsmål om det økologiske samspillet på tundraen. Men med nye muligheter følger også nye utfordringer. Hvordan tilpasser vi teknologi til ekstreme klimaforhold? Og hvordan sikrer vi at dataene vi samler inn er pålitelige og anvendelige
Internasjonal forvaltning av Svalbardhekkende gjess
No full textGjess, som i forrige århundre var truet av menneskelig påvirkning, har nytt godt av økt beskyttelse, endret jordbrukspraksis og klimaendringer. Dette gjelder også Svalbards bestander av kortnebb- og hvitkinngjess, som har vokst eksponentielt de siste tiårene. Kortnebbgjess forårsaker skade på jordbruksavlinger på trekkruten og påvirker tundravegetasjonen under vårens beitesøk på hekkeplassene. En internasjonal adaptiv forvaltningsplan er derfor implementert mellom landene som er vertskap for bestanden i løpet av den årlige syklusen. Et av målene er å stabilisere bestanden for å unngå eskalerende konflikter med landbruket og påvirkninger på tundraen. COAT-programmet på Svalbard overvåker gåsebestandene på hekkeplasser og analyserer gjessenes respons på klimaendringer og deres langsiktige påvirkning på sårbare økosystemer. Denne kunnskapen bidrar direkte inn til forvaltningsplanene og beslutningsprosessene i det internasjonale forvaltningsarbeidet