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The arena of teamwork: The impact of stellate polygonal seating on multiplayer game performance
No full textMultiplayer gaming highly depends on teamwork, making the spatial arrangement of players an important design factor. This study examines how two seating configurations—linear seating and stellate polygonal seating—affect multiplayer performance, communication, and overall collaborative experience. Twenty-four participants played in teams under both arrangements, followed by surveys from sixteen participants evaluating eight aspects of teamwork and interaction. While linear seating resulted in higher kill counts and thus stronger quantitative performance, players consistently rated stellate polygonal seating more positively, emphasizing its advantages for communication and team-centric engagement. These findings note the complex relationship between spatial layout and team effectiveness in gaming environments and suggest that optimal multiplayer setups require balancing functional performance with social and spatial dynamics. Future work should explore additional spatial variables that may further enhance collaborative gameplay
The Rise of the Roguelite: Inside a Gaming Phenomenon, edited by James Cartlidge (CRC Press, 2025).: Book review
No full textA review of James Cartlidge\u27s edited volume, The Rise of the Roguelite: Inside a Gaming Phenomenon. Published by CRC Press, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-00341-547-3, 200 pages
Creating a Community of Diamond OA Practitioners: A Case Study from Switzerland
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The further development of the Diamond Open Access (DOA) publishing ecosystem as a robust and sustainable open access route relies on the engagement and collective efforts of academic libraries, journal editors, researchers, and research funding organisations. However, each of these actors follows its own (institutional) logic and priorities: libraries focus on supporting their institutional members; journal editors aim to shape their research fields; researchers pursue academic careers; and funding organisations strive to promote research excellence in a competitive environment.
Against the backdrop of the Platinum Open Access Funding (PLATO) project – which aimed to engage these communities in building momentum around Diamond OA – this presentation shares insights into how a community of practice is emerging among DOA journal editors in Switzerland. Many of these editors work voluntarily and see their journals as a “service to their research community”.
In a scholar-led publishing system such as Diamond OA, journal editors play a key role in maintaining academic standards, overseeing rigorous peer review, upholding ethical publishing practices, and connecting with research communities. At the same time, the international “OA Diamond Journals Study” (Bosman et al., 2021), along with the PLATO landscape study on scholar-led journals in Switzerland, has shown that Diamond OA journals operate within a fragmented, archipelago-like landscape of publishing outlets and (institutional) infrastructures.
This presentation will focus on a case study from Switzerland, where the PLATO project sought to amplify the agency of these journals – financially, institutionally, and symbolically – by making them more visible (through the creation of a journal database) and supporting the establishment of an association of Diamond OA journal editors.
By centering the voices of editors, this presentation reflects on how bottom-up initiatives can shape the Diamond OA ecosystem and discusses ways to move from fragmented efforts to coordinated, systemic action
Scraped? How Database Rights Can Protect Academic Repositories
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Institutional repositories are a cornerstone of the open science ecosystem, enabling global access to scholarly work and supporting long-term preservation. Yet in an era of automated data extraction and rapidly advancing AI technologies, these repositories face a new and largely unaddressed threat: large-scale, covert scraping of academic content by commercial entities, often for training proprietary AI models. This practice bypasses scholarly norms, offers no transparency or attribution, and exploits institutional infrastructure without consent. Despite the ethos of openness, such unchecked reuse risks distorting scholarly communication, undermining author rights, and compromising the trust that underpins open research infrastructure.
This paper proposes a pragmatic, legally grounded response to this emerging risk. While copyright law has limited utility in protecting open access materials, UK and EU database rights provide an underused but powerful mechanism. These rights recognise the institutional investment involved in maintaining repositories and can be used to enforce contractual restrictions on content reuse. When coupled with technical measures - rate limiting, bot detection, and machine-readable licences - universities can protect their repositories without impeding access for legitimate research or non-commercial users.
Based on implementation planning at the University of Edinburgh, this model includes a layered approach: asserting database rights, requiring end-user licence agreements, and enabling responsible access through APIs. The proposed strategy aligns with open science principles by encouraging transparency, accountability, and stewardship, rather than secrecy or restriction. It offers a scalable response to an infrastructural blind spot in the current scholarly communication ecosystem.
Repairing this gap is not about closing doors but reinforcing them against unethical exploitation. If repositories are to remain open and credible, they must also be governed. This proposal offers a forward-looking model that protects academic infrastructure while upholding the values of openness, equity, and responsible innovation in the age of AI
ESTUDIO DE CUATRO ANGLICISMOS EN EL ESPAÑOL CONTEMPORÁNEO
No full textEl artículo aborda el fenómeno del cambio lingüístico a través del aumento del uso de anglicismos en el español contemporáneo. Se fundamenta en la idea de que el significado lingüístico de los anglicismos incluye tanto elementos ideacionales como interpersonales en términos de Halliday (1973). El objetivo es analizar, desde una perspectiva diacrónica y sociolingüística, la incorporación de cuatro anglicismos en el mundo hispanohablante: al final del día, hoja de ruta, doméstico y paper. La hipótesis principal sostiene que estos anglicismos actúan no solo como herramientas lingüísticas, sino también como marcadores de identidad y diferenciación social. Los datos provienen de los corpus diacrónicos de la Real Academia Española (CORDE, CREA, CORPES XXI), lo que permite observar la evolución de los términos en diversos contextos geográficos y temporales. Los resultados revelan que los anglicismos estudiados generan conflictos al competir con material nativos ya existente y exigir un mayor esfuerzo cognitivo. Además, su adopción está vinculada a contextos específicos, como el discurso político, académico y mediático, en los que sirven para reforzar identidad, afiliación grupal y prestigio social. La sedimentación de estos términos es más acelerada en contextos que favorecen la persuasión discursiva, como la política o la cienciaEl artículo aborda el fenómeno del cambio lingüístico a través del aumento del uso de anglicismos en el español contemporáneo. Se fundamenta en la idea de que el significado lingüístico de los anglicismos incluye tanto elementos ideacionales como interpersonales en términos de Halliday (1973). El objetivo es analizar, desde una perspectiva diacrónica y sociolingüística, la incorporación de cuatro anglicismos en el mundo hispanohablante: al final del día, hoja de ruta, doméstico y paper. La hipótesis principal sostiene que estos anglicismos actúan no solo como herramientas lingüísticas, sino también como marcadores de identidad y diferenciación social. Los datos provienen de los corpus diacrónicos de la Real Academia Española (CORDE, CREA, CORPES XXI), lo que permite observar la evolución de los términos en diversos contextos geográficos y temporales. Los resultados revelan que los anglicismos estudiados generan conflictos al competir con términos nativos ya existentes y exigir un mayor esfuerzo cognitivo. Además, su adopción está vinculada a contextos específicos, como el discurso político, académico y mediático, en los que sirven para reforzar identidad, afiliación grupal y prestigio social. La sedimentación de estos términos es más acelerada en contextos que favorecen la persuasión discursiva, como la política o la ciencia
The Lorraine Model
No full textIn 2017, the University of Lorraine cancelled its subscription to Springer and in 2023, it cancelled its deal with Wiley. The money saved has been channeled into an Open Science Fund which supports open research infrastructures, training and support programmes for open research, and diamond open access publishing. With additional financing from regional research institutes and the national ministry, its annual budget currently amounts to approximately 500,000 Euros. A broad representative committee has been set up to decide on the use of the fund. The support for diamond open access journals – whose editors are affiliated with Université de Lorraine or whose scope is especially important for the Lorraine region – typically entails support in the range of 2000 Euros per year. With this money, editors of small and medium-sized scholar-led journals can hire copy-editing assistance, arrange editorial board meetings and workshop, et cetera. As Vice-President for Open Science at the University, Nicolas Fressengeas stresses the importance of involving the right stakeholders within and around the university to make the best possible use of the Open Science Fund. He is also concerned with research assessment reforms aiming to assure that the extra work required to follow open research practices is properly rewarded. As Head of Research Support at the University Library, Jean-François Lutz argues that the consequences for researchers and students as a result of the cancellation of the Springer and Wiley deals were less acutely felt than one might have expected. The responsibility of supporting open science may be a new challenge to most librarians, but it does make the library relevant and useful for a broad group of researchers, many of whom would not have been in contact with the library if it wasn’t for the Open Science Fund and the services and projects associated with it. The episode was recorded shortly after Norway cancelled its deal with Wiley and will likely serve as inspiration for many institutions that wish to channel money saved on big deals into support for Open Science.
First published online: March 31, 2025
Tracking misspellings
No full textLean guorahallan davvisámegiel teavsttaid, maid lean viežžan interneahtas Norggas ja Suomas, oaidnin dihte mo čállit hálddašit čállingiela ja mat leat dábáleamos čállinmeattáhusat. Dutkanmateriálas 4 % sániin eai leat čállojuvvon norpma mielde, ja analysa čájeha ahte ii leat doarvái dušše máhttit iežas dadjama ja čállingiela njuolgga oktavuođa, muhto eksplisihtta grammatihkkamáhttu lea maiddái dárbbašlaš. Stuorimus čuolmmat leat earuhit čállingiela a ja á ja čállit konsonántaguovddáža riekta, ja erenoamážit sániin, main lea i-mátta, bohciidit váttisvuođat sojahangehčosiin. Čálli dárbbaša maiddái diehtit mo heivehit loatnasániid ja lasihit kásusgehčosiid initiálaoanádusaide ja loguide. Sátnedárkkistanprográmma fuomášuhttá 78 % čállinmeattáhusain, ja 82 %:s dain dáhpáhusain prográmma fállá čállái rivttes čállinhámi.This article presents a study of North Saami texts published in Norway and Finland and collected from the Internet in order to see how native writers master the orthography, and what kind of misspellings are the most frequent ones. In the material, 4% of the words are not written according to the norm. The analysis of the mistakes reveals that it is not enough to know the relationship between pronunciation and the orthographic rules; knowledge of formal grammar is also necessary. The biggest problem is to distinguish between a and á, and to write the consonant centre of the word correctly. Finding the correct combination of stem and suffix is problematic, especially for i-stems. The writer also needs to know how to adapt loan words to the orthography. The existence of a wide range of possible variants of some frequent loan words only makes it worse. The biggest group of misspellings contains incorrect case suffixing of acronyms and numbers. These rules are complex and contra intuitive. The North Saami spell checking program discovers 78% of the misspellings and offers the correct spelling among the five first candidates in 82% of the cases
Innleiing
No full textDen rike samiske historia til Romsa/Tromsø er ukjend for mange av di fleire av byen sine samiske spor gjekk tapt i fornorsking og grensestenging. Utstillinga Rávdnji, som opna ved museet 13. juni 2024, løftar fram fortrengte fortellingar om den sjøsamiske og reindriftssamiske historia i Tromsøområdet
Den grenseoverskridende reindriften og dens skjebne i Troms
No full textLappekodisillen fra 1751 sikret samisk reindrift retten til å krysse riksgrensen mellom Norge og Sverige. Særlig gjaldt det Troms. Unionsoppløsningen i 1905 førte likevel til at samer med vinterbeite på svensk side ble nektet adgang til store deler av sine beiteområder fordi de var svenske statsborgere. Etter en konvensjonsavtale i 1919 ble disse samene tvunget til å forlate alle øyene og deler av halvøyene i Troms. Norske myndigheter måtte forholde seg til Lappekodisillen, men har ved senere forhandlinger ytterligere begrenset de reindriftsamiske bruksområdene
Asignación y concordancia de género en español como segunda lengua: evidencia de un corpus de tamaño medio: Evidence from a Medium-Scale Learner Corpus
No full textThis study investigates gender assignment and agreement accuracy in the written productions of French-speaking learners of Spanish across three proficiency levels. Drawing on a medium-scale learner corpus, we coded all noun phrases for gender assignment (based on determiner inflection), for noun-adjective agreement, and for determiner-adjective agreement, and we examined the impact of various linguistic and learner-related predictors using Bayesian mixed-effects models. Although the overall error rate was relatively low, likely due to task type and familiar vocabulary, the models revealed robust effects of proficiency level and of underlying grammatical and lexical factors. Regarding gender assignment, accuracy was significantly lower for nouns with non-prototypical or ambiguous gender markers, for feminine nouns, and when Spanish and French differed in grammatical gender. Moreover, lower accuracy was observed with certain types of determiners. Noun-adjective agreement was influenced by the same factors, except for non-prototypical gender markings, which did not have a significant effect. In addition, less accuracy was observed with prenominal adjectives. Determiner–adjective agreement, in turn, only showed lower accuracy with feminine nouns, but the results of the statistical model should be interpreted with caution, due to high Pareto k values. Nevertheless, descriptive data confirm the relevance of distinguishing between noun–adjective and determiner–adjective agreement and highlight the need for larger corpora with a greater number of errors to model this phenomenon more conclusively. Overall, these findings contribute to a better understanding of gender processing in L2, demonstrate the value of medium-sized corpus analysis in second language acquisition research, and lay the groundwork for future research exploring crosslinguistic combinations beyond Spanish and French.Este estudio investiga la precisión en la asignación y la concordancia de género en las producciones escritas de aprendientes francófonos de español en tres niveles de competencia. A partir de un corpus de aprendientes de tamaño medio, se codificaron todas las frases nominales en función de la asignación de género (reflejado en el determinante), así como de la concordancia entre el sustantivo y el adjetivo y entre el determinante y el adjetivo, y se examinó el impacto de diversos predictores lingüísticos y relacionados con los aprendientes mediante modelos bayesianos de efectos mixtos. Aunque la tasa general de errores fue relativamente baja —probablemente debido al tipo de tarea y al uso de vocabulario familiar—, los modelos revelaron efectos robustos del nivel de competencia y de factores gramaticales y léxicos subyacentes. La precisión en la asignación de género fue significativamente menor en los sustantivos con marcas de género no prototípicas o ambiguas, en los sustantivos femeninos y en los casos en los que el género gramatical en español no coincidía con el género en francés. Además, se observó una menor precisión en ciertos tipos de determinantes. La concordancia sustantivo-adjetivo se vio influenciada por los mismos factores, con excepción de las marcas de género ambiguas, que no tuvieron un efecto significativo. La concordancia determinante-adjetivo, por su parte, solo mostró menor precisión con sustantivos femeninos, lo que demuestra la pertinencia de distinguir entre concordancia sustantivo-adjetivo y concordancia determinante-adjetivo. Estos resultados contribuyen a una mejor comprensión del procesamiento del género en L2, demuestran la utilidad del análisis de corpus de tamaño medio en la adquisición de lenguas segundas, y sientan las bases para futuras investigaciones sobre combinaciones de lenguas más allá del español y el francés