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Changing Publication Culture: Lessons Learned
No full textTU Delft OPEN Publishing, the diamond Open Access publisher of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), is celebrating five years this year, starting in 2019. TU Delft OPEN Publishing challenges the status quo by providing a sustainable alternative to commercial publishing with researchers at the heart of our activities. We are a not-for-profit publisher founded by the university with a free-to-read and free-to-publish model.
What does it take to run an innovative professional diamond open access publisher? The answer is a good operational foundation. TU Delft OPEN Publishing gives special attention to the effective running of our growing publishing house, which has published more than one hundred books, fifty textbooks and fourteen journals. We aim to meet the needs of the communities we serve with high-quality publications by using our available resources and being mindful of our capacity. This poster presentation will discuss the lessons learned in professionalizing the diamond Open Access publisher of TU Delft, focusing on the operational side
Openness and Transparency in Peer Review
No full textPeer review is recognized as a fundamental part of the scholarly communication ecosystem. With the current push for increased transparency and openness in science, new ways of organizing and documenting the peer review process are emerging.
Some argue that the traditional practice of ‘double blind’ peer review favours already privileged scholars from well-esteemed institutions in North America and Europe. Mechanisms preventing less privileged groups, including scholars from low- and middle-income countries in the global south, from publishing their papers in high impact journals should be combatted. One way of levelling the field, it is argued, is to promote various forms of open peer review. Another push for openness and transparency stems from debates regarding reform of research assessment. Peer review is a fundamental contribution to research that should be appreciated when evaluating the CV of a researcher. More streamlined ways of documenting peer review will be welcomed by such reformists. Finally, cases of misconduct, such as peer reviewers asking for citation of their own papers for the sole reason of boosting their number of citations, will be easier to detect if the identity of the reviewer is revealed along with the published paper.
The session will begin with four lightning talks (6–7 minutes each), in which representatives of PREreview, eLife, Reviewer Credits, and PLOS share their experiences with different ways of promoting and facilitating more transparency in peer review. After the lightning talks, there will be a panel discussion chaired by Roald A. Øien, full professor of Special Education and Developmental Psychology at UiT and adjunct assistant professor at the Child Study Center at Yale University’s School of Medicine. Øien is part of the editorial team for the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and teaches peer review to early career researchers.
Watch the panel on this video recording.
Vanessa Fairhurst, Head of Community, PREreview: “Why we need greater equity and transparency in peer review.”
Naushin Thomson, Senior Production Assistant, eLife:“Learnings from a publishing model focussed on preprint review and curation.”
Sven Fund, Managing Director, Reviewer Credits:“Ensuring Peer Review is a Force for Good in Open Science.”
Rebecca Kirk, Associate Editorial Director, PLOS:“Open Science in Practice: The Evolution and Impact of Published Peer Review History.
Autumn School “Protection of The Sea: Adopting Co-Created Methods Of (Public) Participation”
No full textThis report details a 4-day Autumn School held at the University of Bari, Sede di Taranto, a joint project endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade and funded by DAAD. The event involved academic collaborations with the University of Bayreuth and the University of Turin (Department of Management). The school’s focus was on the protection of human rights at sea, sea rights, and living by the sea. It included an experiential learning day in partnership with the Jonian Dolphin Conservation in Taranto, followed by a three-day workshop. During these sessions, students from Germany and Italy engaged in building co-created projects that addressed challenges connected to Agenda 2030 and SDG 14 (and 3, 5, 15, 16, 17)
Kapittel 5: 1990–2007 Tverrfagleg konsolidering, byutvikling kjem i fokus
No full textVed inngangen til 1990-åra opplever universitet over heile landet ein enorm vekst i studenttalet. Ved Universitetet i Tromsø stig studenttalet frå 2400 i 1987 til 5400 i 1992 (Fulsås 1993:170). Bakgrunnen er ikkje så hyggeleg å tenke på – det er blitt stor arbeidsløyse på landsbasis, og det fører til at ein større andel av ungdomskulla søker seg til høgre utdanning
سمفونی تراوش سرد
No full textFocus:
To listen to the Arctic Ocean’s sounds and to learn about the Arctic Ocean’s biodiversity, particularly near cold seeps. We will experiment with creating new sound expressions inspired by the Ocean. For pupils with hearing impairment, pupils can create a bodily expression of this and/or use instruments they are comfortable with.
Learning objectives:
With this activity pupils will start to understand:
The multitude of sounds audible in the Ocean and near to cold seeps at the sea-bed.
That the oceans, including the Arctic Ocean, harbors great biodiversity.
What an oceanographic ship is, and the anthropic sounds related to it.
Key words:
Ocean research, exploration, human/non-human relationship within ocean, sounds, place, noise.
تمرکز: برای گوش دادن به صداهای اقیانوس منجمد شمالی و یادگیری در مورد تنوع زیستی اقیانوس منجمد شمالی، به ویژه در نزدیکی تراوشات سرد. ما با ایجاد عبارات صوتی جدید با الهام از اقیانوس آزمایش هایی انجام خواهیم داد. برای دانشآموزان مبتلا به اختلال شنوایی، دانش آموزها میتوانند بیانی بدنی از این موضوع ایجاد کنند و یا از وسایلی استفاده کنند که با آن راحت هستند.
اهداف آموزشی: با این فعالیت، دانش آموزان شروع به درک موارد زیر خواهند کرد:
- انبوهی از صداهای قابل شنیدن در اقیانوس و نزدیک به تراوش سرد در بستر دریا.
- اینکه اقیانوس ها، از جمله اقیانوس منجمد شمالی، دارای تنوع زیستی زیادی هستند.
- کشتی اقیانوس شناسی چیست و صداهای انسانی مرتبط با آن.
کلیدواژه: تحقیق اقیانوس، اکتشاف، رابطه انسانی یا غیر انسانی در اقیانوس، صداها، مکان، سر و صدا
کف اقیانوس (باستانی) کجاست؟
No full textFocus:
To understand that that the ocean floor is dynamic and changes through time. Sometimes it’s far away, and sometimes much closer than we think. But where is the ocean floor?
Learning objectives:
In this activity, pupils will understand that we can find ancient ocean floors on land because of tectonic activity. NB: This will require prior planning and may not be possible if your school is too far from such tectonic formations.
Key words:
Sedimentation, sedimentary rocks, tectonics, Earth history.تمرکز
درک اینکه کف اقیانوس پویا است و در طول زمان تغییر می کند. گاهی دور است، و گاهی بسیار نزدیکتر از آنچه فکر می کنیم. اما کف اقیانوس کجاست؟
اهداف آموزشی
در این فعالیت، دانشآموزان متوجه خواهند شد که به دلیل فعالیتهای زمین ساختی، میتوانیم کف اقیانوسهای باستانی را در خشکی پیدا کنیم. توجه: این نیاز به برنامه ریزی قبلی دارد و ممکن است اگر مدرسه شما خیلی از این سازندهای زمین ساختی دور باشد انجام فعالیت امکان پذیر نباشد.
واژههای کلیدی
رسوبگذاری، سنگهای رسوبی، زمین ساخت، تاریخ زمین
IOI and Infra Finder
No full textInvest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is a non-profit initiative specialising in undertaking research on infrastructure tailor-made for open science and in discussing their findings with stakeholders to increase the investment in, and adoption of, open infrastructure. With a team of eight based in Europe, the USA and Africa, IOI also supports the adoption of open infrastructure through research-based funding pilots such as the IOI Fund. Its most recent tool is a collaboratively developed, openly available database designed to help institutions identify and evaluate open infrastructure solutions. This database, the Infra Finder, at the time of its launch contains structured information on 57 infrastructure providers that can be compared in a side-by-side view.
First published online: April 23, 2024
KOALA – Building Support for Diamond Open Access
No full textA discussion with Marco Tullney, initiator of the bottom-up initiative KOALA (Konsortiale Open Access Lösungen Aufbauen, i.e. Establishing Consortial Open Access Solutions). Building upon an established role in the organisation of library consortia that negotiate deals with commercial publishers, Tullney and his colleagues have succeeded to acquire small sums from more than a hundred partner libraries to fund journals and books series. Each funding period lasts for three years, with the consortia covering all legitimate costs of running a publication outlet. So far, ten small to medium sized journals have received funding, as well as two smaller book series. Based on his experience from the German-speaking area, Tullney shares several pieces of advice on how to set up similar funding mechanisms in other regions. He also raises the fundamental question about how to make sure that Diamond OA can grow from its current status as a nieche phenomenon in a limited spectrum of disciplines to becoming a sustainable and attractive model for scholars across all fields.
First published online: May 3, 2024
Deconstructing esports: Why we need to acknowledge bodies in a move toward more equitable esports practices
No full textBranding competitive gaming as esports, part of a process known as sportification, has contributed greatly to the wider acceptance of competitive gaming as legitimate leisure and professional activity. However, the social effects of sportification remain largely overlooked in current research. In this paper we argue that in order to understand the normative and formative social effects of sportification of competitive gaming, we need to forefront the bodies in esports. Building on scholarship that highlights inequities in (competitive) gaming and esports, we identify four ways in which bodies are made relevant in esports: 1) the obscuring of the playing body and establishment of an idealized and normative masculine athletic body; 2) the ‘visibility’ of women\u27s bodies as deviant from the norm; 3) the invisibility (and impossibility) of disabled bodies through design (embodied nature of design of both games and gameplay); and 4) the embodied nature of infrastructural issues that cannot be reduced to materiality. We argue for a deconstruction of esports as a social practice that forefronts bodies. Understanding exactly how bodies become relevant will allow us to deconstruct the structural conditions of participation that dictate which bodies are possible or not in esports and move towards more equitable esports practices