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Reshaping and a Makeover – Preparing Old Services for New Times
No full textBoth nationally and internationally there is an increased focus on scholarly communication with community driven models, such as Diamond Open Access, being seen as more equitable than the present. The Norwegian document “Strategi for Norsk vitenskapelig publisering etter 2024”[1] also indicates that this is a way forward for Norway.
This paradigm shift in scholarly communication may lead to changes in the publishing infrastructure and publishing culture. As an established part of the publishing ecology in Europe and Norway, erih+ and the Norwegian Registry must adhere to these changes and prepare to meet the future.
Erih+, a European journal index for the SSH academic fields, is run and owned by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills. To increase the relevance and visibility by the international community, erih+ is adjusting to European needs and policy. To make sure that the developments and efforts are spent correctly, erih+ became member of the research infrastructure OPERAS in early 2023. The involvement in this research infrastructure has made it possible for erih+ to reshape and restructure the service in line with the current discussed policies.
The actions erih+ is taking to meet the future are related to metadata, technology and cooperation with the community. The renewed erih+ is strengthening the ties to the community driven journals by making sure that they are supported, retrieved, shared and highlighted. This also include the Diamond journals which are in the centre of the many discussions concerning scholarly communication today. This presentation will focus on how the new times demand new priorities, and how technology and close bonds to the larger community is perceived as the best way forward for erih+.
By focusing on technical innovations, improved metadata schema and an engagement in the European communities, erih+ will be a service equipped to meet the needs of the future.
See this presentation in this video recording.
[1] https://www.openscience.no/strategi-norsk-vitenskapelig-publisering-etter-202
Supporting publication choices in an open research context
No full textScholars are confronted with myriad options when publishing: taking into account their topic, their publishing goals, intended audience, institutional and funder policies and collaborator preferences. Libraries and their institutions are there to support their authors in this process. In this session we will discuss potential new ways to help researchers, teams and department leadership to make choices and formulate publication strategies. We will do this using two resources created recently at Utrecht University Library (the Open Access Faculty Toolkit (De Boer et al. 2024) and the Publication Strategy Tool (Bosman & Kramer 2022)). Together they provide both top-down and bottom-up approaches to support changing publication practices. This session will address both the range of choices researchers and their institutions need to make (why, what, when, how and where to publish, open access types) and how to support this informed publication strategy as a library or librarian. In doing so, we will differentiate between individual, departmental/team and institutional levels. We invite participants to bring in their own disciplinary and research policy contexts and will then discuss the different publishing options. We will also discuss the balance libraries need to strike between supporting whatever choices researchers make, supporting institutional and funder polices and advocating to bring open science into publishing and make publishing more equitable. The session aims to inspire and help participants in creating and using informed approaches to supporting open publishing.
Participant preparation: we ask the participants to in advance briefly take a look at the two resources mentioned and think about how using these could be beneficial in their function or for their organisation
Traditional Publishers and the Transition towards Open Access
No full textThe entire publishing landscape appears to be slowly but steadily moving towards universal open access. Over the years, traditional publishers have tested out a variety of models to ensure that academic literature can be made openly available in an economically viable manner. These include Pledge to Open for books, Transformative Agreements (aka Read-and-Publish deals) and Subscribe to Open (S2O) for journals, and various forms of Diamond Open Access facilitated by public funding streams. While everybody tends to agree that open access is desirable, it may be the case that every model has both positives and negatives. In this discussion, representatives from four traditional publishers will get together and share their experiences and thoughts about the future.
The session will begin with four lightning talks (6–7 minutes each), in which representatives of Springer Nature, Universitetsforlaget, Taylor & Francis Group, and De Gruyter Brill share their experiences with different models of open access publishing. After the lightning talks, there will be a panel discussion chaired by Per Pippin Aspaas, head of Library Research and Publishing Support at UiT and member of the institution’s Library collections budget committee.
Timon Oefelein, Head of Academic Affairs – Northern and Central Europe, Springer Nature: “Accelerating open access at scale: addressing the needs of institutions and researchers worldwide.”
Nils Ivar Lahlum, Head of Publishing, Scandinavian University Press:“How to prosper in a Diamond Open Access landscape: experiences from a publisher in Scandinavia.”
Corinna Mayer, Manager Open Access Journal Transformation, De Gruyter Brill:“Making Open Access a reality for Humanities and Social Sciences journals: S2O as a promising path.”
Becky Hill, Head of Open Research, Taylor & Francis Group:“Collaborative funding for Open Access books: reflections on a pilot year.”
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Positive Play: Designing Ludic Tools for Health
No full textThis book results from an initiative by the European university consortium EUGLOH - European University Alliance for Global Health - between the University of Porto, Portugal (U.P.), and the University of the Arctic, Norway (UiT). To support the activity consisting of a three-day masterclass and workshop at UiT, designated as “Tromsø Idea Camp 2024 - Developing ideas through co-creation using human-centred design,” which had as its motto: . “Identify the needs and expectations of Vardesenteret’s patients before, during, and after treatment, considering their and volunteers’ points of view and creating projectual answers that foster empathy and communication”, a handbook was created, which later formed the basis of this book. It has three sections dedicated to Person-Centred Design in the Context of Health and Well-being. The first section— ”Reported Experience”, — Relates to the doctoral project “Ludic Activities in Health Context: An Anorexia Nervosa Case in the Hospital Environment,” which systematizes Ludic methods and tools created in and for a clinical context to support the treatment and monitoring of Anorexia Nervosa. Part of the project stems from collaborative work with São João Central Hospital, Portugal, in a group dedicated to treating eating disorders. The second section - “Documented Experience” — Explores the concept of Positive Play, coined by Giesteira, B., Cardoso, P., and Peçaibes, V. in various papers and book chapters from 2021 onwards. It presents a group of methods and tools created by the authors in recent years, such as the SEED Toolkit - “SomaEsthetics for Enabling Designers” (Giesteira, B. 2023) and the ANgame Collab (Cardoso, P., Peçaibes, V., Giesteira, B. 2022). The first tool aims to work on the concept of Somaesthetics, promoting empathy and contributing to identifying feelings and sensations interdependent on body activities and movements. The second tool aims to mediate playful sessions of Participatory Design, especially in the ‘user research’ phase. Other tools and methods were selected because, based on the aforementioned authors’ experience, they are most suitable for applied research in Health Technology Design. The third section - “Lived Experience” — Records the three days of the workshop dedicated to the themes: “Emotional Design and Somaesthetics”; “Human-Centered and Participatory Design”; “Ideation, Lateral Thinking, and Prototype.” In addition to the aforementioned themes, the different phases of development of the participants\u27 projects from the various universities of the EUGLOH university consortium are recorded, which, in a Participatory Design approach, involved the collaboration of volunteers and oncology patients from Vardesenteret. This section shares the tools used to support each phase of product or service design and the final results of the low-fidelity prototypes
Årsrapport 2023 Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for ryggkirurgi: Resultater og forbedringstiltak
No full textThe Norwegian Registry for Spine Surgery (NORSpine) consists of three sub-registers for degenerative back-, degenerative neck and for deformity surgery. All surgical units report to the NORspine (100 % coverage), and the completeness is high. Of all being operated for degenerative disorders in Norway, > 80 % are captured in the NORspine, and > 80 % respond at 3 and 12 months follow up. However at some hospitals the registration completeness should be increased. For the newly started (2023) registry for deformity, completeness analyses are currently not available.Waiting time before surgery has impact on the quality of treatment. Many hospitals have too long waiting time. After a focus on unwarranted practice variation in the use of prophylactic antibiotic treatment by the NORspine over some years, the hospitals now seem to have adjusted to the national guideline in this feld.Despite an aging patient population, the the NORspine results are stable and of good quality. Better patient selection for surgery seems to be the key to further improvements. Therefore, several local quality projects connected to indication for surgery are ongoing.In addition, the NORspine is working with integrating the registry into the electronic patient record (DIPS). This enables implementation of artifcial intelligence-based decision support, to improve patient selection for surgery in daily clinical practice, using NORspine data. Clinical testing of this new tool will be performed in 2024.Nasjonalt kvalitetsregister for ryggkirurgi (NKR) best˚ar av delregistre for kirurgisk behandling av degenerativ rygg, degenerativ nakke og deformitet. Registrene har 100 % tilslutning. For degenerativ rygg og nakke er dekningsgraden høy (> 80 %), men den kan fortsatt forbedres ved flere sykehus. Pasientenes responsrate 3 og 12 m˚aneder etter kirurgi er ogs˚a høy (> 80 %). For det nystartede (2023) delregisteret for deformitet foreligger det enn˚a ikke dekningsgradsanalyser.Ventetid før kirurgi har betydning for behandlingskvalitet. Det er stor variasjon mellom sykehusene og mange har for lang ventetid.Etter at NKR satte fokus p˚a en stor og ubegrunnet variasjon i bruk av tromboseprofylakse, har alle sykehusene justert bruken i tr˚ad med nasjonale retningslinjer p˚a omr˚adet.Etter et langvarig, forskningsbasert kvalitetsarbeid ser vi at avstivning (fusjonskirurgi) ved spinal stenose med degenerativ spondylolistese (glidning) har falt betraktelig gjennom flere ˚ar, og har flatet ut p˚a et lavt niv˚a. Dette har gitt stabilt gode resultater, redusert liggetid og færre komplikasjoner.Til tross for en stadig eldre pasientpopulasjon er resultatene generelt gode og stabile. Bedre pasientutvelgelse, spesielt til elektiv kirurgi, synes ˚a være nøkkelen til videre forbedring av utfall etter nakke-og ryggkirurgi. Det p˚ag˚ar derfor en rekke lokale kvalitetsforbedringsprosjekt knyttet til bedre pasientutvelgelse til operasjon.NKR jobber i tillegg med ˚a gjøre kvalitetsdata direkte tilgjengelig i arbeidsfyten til klinikerne, gjennom integrasjon med den elektroniske pasientjournalen (DIPS). Dette muliggjør bruk av et kunstig intelligens-basert beslutningsverktøy som forventes ˚a gi bedre pasientutvelgelse (samvalg) og utfall etter ryggkirurgi. Klinisk utprøving av løsningen starter i Helse Nord i 2024
Kapittel 3: 1974–1980: Ei nyskapande utdanning tar form
No full textForspelet er unnagjort, no skal undervisninga starte. Dette kapittelet tar for seg oppstarten i 1974, med spesiell vekt på korleis det faglege innhaldet i utdanninga utvikla seg. Så tar eg for meg dei studiemessige grepa som blei utvikla utover på 1970-talet, med praksisår, Høstseminaret i samfunnsplanlegging, regionalseminar og feltkurs (som på 1970-talet blei omtalt som «ekskursjonar»). For å gjere framstillinga litt levande, fortel eg korleis det første feltkurset blei ein arena for konfrontasjon mellom eit fagmiljø ved det nye universitetet – og det nordnorske landbrukssamvirket
Kapittel 4: Tverrfagleg havari – men samfunnsplanlegging overlevde dei turbulente 1980-åra
No full text1980-talet skulle bli eit problemfylt tiår for den tverrfaglege utdanninga i samfunnsplanlegging og lokalsamfunnsforsking ved Universitetet i Tromsø. Sjølv om utdanninga gjennom 1970-talet hadde fått studieløpet og forholdet til praksisfeltet på plass, skulle studieretninga virke i eit akademisk miljø som ved inngangen til 1980-talet opplevde stagnasjon i stillingstildelingar og studenttal
کاوش در اعماق دریای قطب شمال با استفاده از فیلترهای رنگی
No full textFocus:
To get to know some of the creatures in the deep-sea that use color and the lack of light to camouflage themselves.
Learning objectives:
With these TWO activities, we use vision to explore life forms in the deep sea which have adapted to extreme conditions. Through the activities, the pupils will also become familiar with some organisms well-hidden at the bottom of the ocean.
Key words:
Camouflage strategies, Deep sea ocean, Physical effects of light, Characteristics of sea lifeforms
تمرکز:
برای شناخت برخی از موجودات در اعماق دریا که از رنگ و کمبود نور برای استتار خود استفاده می کنند.
اهداف آموزشی:
با این دو فعالیت، از بینایی برای کشف اشکال زندگی در اعماق دریا که با شرایط محیطی سخت سازگار شده اند استفاده می کنیم. از طریق این فعالیتها، دانشآموزان با برخی از موجوداتی که به خوبی در کف اقیانوس پنهان شدهاند آشنا میشوند.
کلیدواژه:
ترفند های استتار،اعماق اقیانوس، اعماق دریا، اثرات فیزیکی نور، ویژگی های شکل های حیات دریای
تأثیر انسانی: آلودگی پلاستیکی
No full textFocus:
To comprehend that plastic pollution is a major problem and is having an impact on oceans everywhere. These impacts are seen on beaches and shorelines and all the way to the deepest places in the ocean.
Learning objectives:
In this activity, pupils will gain an appreciation for the extent of plastic pollution in and around oceans. They will start to understand how plastic pollution can have a negative impact on life below the surface of the sea.
Key words:
Ocean pollution, plastics, microplastics.تمرکز
درک این موضوع که آلودگی پلاستیکی یک مشکل بزرگ است و بر اقیانوس ها در همه جا تأثیر می گذارد. این تاثیرات در سواحل و خطوط ساحلی و تا عمیق ترین نقاط اقیانوس دیده می شود.
اهداف آموزشی
در این فعالیت، دانش آموزان از میزان آلودگی پلاستیکی در داخل و اطراف اقیانوس ها درک پیدا خواهند کرد. آنها متوجه خواهند شد که چگونه آلودگی پلاستیکی می تواند تأثیر منفی بر زندگی زیر سطح دریا داشته باشد.
کلمات کلیدی
آلودگی اقیانوس، پلاستیک، میکروپلاستیک
Vinterforing av reinsdyr - effekter på reinsdyrs oppførsel, beitepraksis og miljøet: Rapport fra en NKJ-workshop i Arvidsjaur 8–9. juni 2022
No full textThis report is based on the results from a Nordic network project funded by The Nordic Joint Committee for Agricultural and Food Research (NKJ) during the years 2021-2022. This network was created to encourage further cross-border discussions about the prospects of winter feeding of reindeer. In reindeer husbandry winter feeding has increased during the last decades due to competing land use activities and climate change. Herders in Norway, Sweden and Finland have previously raised concerns about the benefits and risks associated to the increasing need of winter feeding of reindeer in all three countries.
The report, published in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and North Sámi, and covers the main findings from a series of preparatory workshops within each country and a main workshop in Arvidsjaur 8-9 June 2022. During the network activities, reindeer herders, researchers and managers discussed the effects of feeding on reindeer behaviour, herding practices and the environment. The two main topics discussed at the preparatory workshops were 1) the short- and long-term effects of winter feeding on reindeer behaviour, and 2) local to large scale effects of feeding on the environment and the natural pastures. During the main workshop, discussions were held about reasons for feeding of reindeer, the preconditions of feeding in the three countries, how winter feeding is usually performed, and best practices in relation to reindeer behaviour and the environment.
The work aimed at promoting knowledge exchange on winter feeding of reindeer among all participants to help find solutions and mitigation actions to avoid changes in reindeer behaviour and negative effects of feeding on reindeer, reindeer herding and the environment. The report is aimed at herders, managers, as well as other land users, authorities and policymakers to give information on what was discussed and a summary of the challenges related to winter feeding and effects on reindeer behaviour and reindeer husbandry, and the environment.
Rangifer Report No 20 is the Norwegian version of the report. The Swedish and Finnish versions have been published (Rangifer Report No 18 and 19, respectively). A version in North Sámi is published as a following number of Rangifer Report