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The Green Advantage: An Analysis of Open Access Publications at a Mid-Sized University
No full textIntroduction: The escalating cost of journals, loss of access to research results, and mandates by funding agencies favor Open Access (OA). The suggestion that OA publications are cited more than those behind paywalls should appeal to faculty where citations are critical for promotion and tenure. Further, the option to publish Green OA without cost would be advantageous to faculty who lack financial support for OA publications.Methods: We used data from Scopus to analyze field weighted citation counts (FWCI) for OA publications over 20 years in terms of OA type, document type, subject area, and subject normalized impact factor.Results: Our OA publications have increased over time, especially in health and medicine. Green OA is the most common type, alone or added to Gold or Bronze, and Hybrid Gold is the least common. Journal rank is positively correlated with citations, but adding Green OA consistently has the highest FWCI scores, and adding Green OA improves citations in all subject areas and for all OA types.Discussion: The low citation scores for Gold OA are likely complicated by perceptions of low quality, whereas the low rate of Hybrid Gold OA articles may reflect the barrier of article processing charges (APCs). Trans-formative agreements may help reduce APCs, but shifting the cost from authors to their institutional libraries presents similar inequities in affordability.Conclusion: The Green OA advantage offers scope for libraries to promote OA, especially their institutional repositories, and to advocate for OA to be integrated into promotion and tenure guidelines
Episode 47: No Other Land (2024) (Guests: Omer Bartov & Lisa Hajjar)
No full textNo Other Land (2024) is the Oscar-winning documentary that shows the brutal destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. Recorded between 2019 to 2023, the film tells the story of Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist, who has been protesting the Israeli army’s destruction of homes and eviction of villagers. Adra is assisted by Yuval Abraham, a Jewish Israeli journalist. (They are also two of the film’s four directors). To Adra and other Palestinians, the Israeli army is destroying their homeland. The Israeli army, however, maintains that the inhabitants are on land that the military needs for live-fire military training and that the evictions have been duly authorized by Israeli courts. The situation turns violent—Adra’s cousin is shot by Israeli soldiers in the days after the Oct 7 attacks—and Adra himself is endangered by his efforts to record the evictions and protests. The film provides a penetrating look not only at a Palestinian community in the West Bank but also at the plight of those being forced off their land--with literally nowhere else to go. [Editor\u27s Note: Since the recording of this episode, Odeh Hathalin, a Palestinian activist and contributor to the film, was shot and killed in a village in Masafer Yatta by an Israeli settler.]
Guest: Omer Bartov
Omer Bartov is the Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony\u27s College, Oxford, Professor Bartov\u27s early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it committed in World War II, which he analyzed in his books, The Eastern Front, 1941-1945 (1985), and Hitler\u27s Army (1991). Professor Bartov has also written about the links between total war and genocide, including in Murder in Our Midst (1996), Mirrors of Destruction (2000), and Germany\u27s War and the Holocaust (2003). Professor Bartov’s more recent work has focused on interethnic relations in the borderlands of Eastern Europe, such as in Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007) and Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018). Professor Bartov’s most recent book is Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023). He is at work on two other books, Israel: What Went Wong? and The Broken Promise: A Personal Political History of Israel and Palestine.
Guest: Lisa Hajjar
Lisa Hajjar is professor and chair of Sociology at the University of California -- Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on law and conflict, including war crimes and other gross violations of international law, military occupations and courts, and legal activism in pursuit of justice. Professor Hajjar is the author of numerous publications, including Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (Univ. Cal. Press, 2005), “International Law and Fifty Years of Occupation” in Aaron Hahn Tapper and Mira Sucharov, eds., Social Justice in Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates (Univ. Toronto Press, 2019); and “Law against Order: Human Rights Organizations and the Palestinian Authority,” 56 University of Miami Law Review 59 (2002). Her most recent book is The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture, published by University of California Press in 2022. In her work, Professor Hajjar often compares Israel and U.S. violations of international law and the forms of legal reasoning government lawyers concoct to “legalize” illegal policies and practices.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction3:42 Masafar Yatta and the Occupied West Bank 7:43 The legal apparatus of illegal occupation13:14 The “Gazafication” of the West Bank20:08 The meaning of “No Other Land”23:21 Israel and the international community31:24 The crackdown on free speech in the U.S. and in Israel34:41 A complex story of an Israeli-Palestinian friendship41:18 The power of images43:07 Growing Israeli indifference to Gaza and the West Bank48:30 The film’s reception in Israel 49:53 Law-based criticism of Israel and antisemitism
Further Reading:
Bartov, Omer, “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It,” New York Times (July 15, 2025)
Beinart, Peter, Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (2025)
Caplan, Neil, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories (2010)
Hajjar, Lisa, “International Humanitarian Law and ‘Wars on Terror’: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and American Doctrines and Policies,” 36 Journal of Palestine Studies 36 (Autumn 2006)
Kaufman, Anthony, No Other Distribution: How Film Industry Economics and Politics Are Suppressing Docs Sympathetic to Palestine and Critical of Israel, Int’l Documentary Ass’n (Jan 15, 2025)
Khalidi, Rashid, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (2020)
Lukenville, Mackenzie, “The Only Path Forward: ‘No Other Land,’” Int’l Documentary Ass’n (Dec. 5, 2024)
Sfard, Michael, Occupation from Within: A Journey to the Roots of the Constitutional Coup (2025)https://scholarship.shu.edu/law-on-film-s03/1016/thumbnail.jp
Episode 40: Syriana (2005) (Guest: Peggy McGuinness)
No full textSyriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, based loosely on former CIA case officer Robert Baer’s memoir, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA\u27s War on Terrorism. The film weaves together multiple storylines that involve a CIA agent, a U.S. energy analyst, a major transnational law firm, and an oil-rich Persian Gulf kingdom. It tackles complex themes of corruption, power, and terrorism from a distinctly post-9/11 vantage point. The film also suggests how law operates in transnational settings and how it seeks—but often fails—to tame the forces of ambition, greed, and power that drive the oil industry and America’s role in it.
Guest: Margaret (“Peggy”) McGuinness
Margaret (Peggy) McGuinness joined the St. John’s faculty in 2010. Professor McGuinness researches and teaches in the areas of international law and international human rights law. She has published widely on the subjects of international human rights law, international security and the resolution of armed conflict, and the role and influence of international law in the United States. Professor McGuinness’s current research examines U.S. diplomacy and its influence on international human rights governance. Her recent work includes, Human Rights Reporting as Human Rights Governance, published in Columbia Journal on Transnational Law. She is also the co-editor (with David Stewart, Georgetown Law) of the forthcoming Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Law and Diplomacy (forthcoming 2021). Professor McGuinness serves on the Council on International Affairs of the New York City Bar and the Executive Committee of the International Section of the New York State Bar Association, where she is also co-chair of the Public International Law Committee. Professor McGuinness previously worked as a litigator for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Her career in the law follows an early career as a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, which included service in Germany, Pakistan and Canada, and as a Special Assistant to Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction3:00 The context and setting 5:24 The film’s multiple storylines8:28 Former CIA agent Robert Baer19:22 Capital markets and energy derivatives25:26 Big oil in the early 2000s and today28:28 Big law and the Jeffrey Wright character 33:43 DOJ’s investigation37:14 The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 42:40 The illusion of due diligence 47:40 Radicalization53:06 Gulf monarchs 55:10 Targeted assassination1:01:14 The next movie: big tech and AI1:01:52 The outcome
Further Reading:
Alyson, Brusie et al., “Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” 61 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 713 (2024)
Baer, Robert, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA\u27s War on Terrorism (Crown, 2003)
Kahrl, William L., “The Politics of the California Water: Owens Valley and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1900 – 1927,” Hastings West-Northwest J. Envt’l L. & Policy, vol. 6, nos. 1 & 2 (2000)
Lewis, R. James & Awan, Akil N. eds. Radicalization: A Global and Comparative Perspective (Oxford Univ. Press, 2024)
Stiglitz, Jospeh E., Globalization and Its Discontents (W. W. Norton & Co. 2002)https://scholarship.shu.edu/law-on-film-s03/1009/thumbnail.jp
Generative AI Unleashed: Advancements, Transformative Applications and Future Frontiers
No full textToday\u27s generative AI has been marked by the advent of neural networks, inspired by the human brain, which are trained to recognize patterns in a dataset. Once the network is trained, it can make decisions or predictions without being programmed to perform tasks. Generative AI learns from a set of data without explicit instructions and can create and generate new digital content such as text, audio and art. Recent models are beginning to overcome challenges such as computational power, data quality and training stability.This edited book on generative AI presents novel perspectives, approaches and methodologies, as well as security, ethical and legal considerations, and future trends. Topics and technologies covered include generative transformers and text generation models, generative models for human-like speech synthesis, generative AI for image synthesis, data synthesis for privacy protection, and exploration of the impact of generative AI in fields including industry 4.0, astronomy, and brain tumour detection. Two chapters offer perspectives on ethics and legality.Generative AI Unleashed: Advancements, transformative applications and future frontiers will serve as a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, advanced students and lecturers operating in the domains that are significantly impacted by generative AI.https://scholarship.shu.edu/faculty-publications/1074/thumbnail.jp
Teacher Reflexivity: The Instructional Importance of Contemplating the Haha\u27s, On No\u27s and As If\u27s
No full texthttps://scholarship.shu.edu/faculty-publications/1089/thumbnail.jp
Behavioral inhibition and cognitive control in an emotional Go/No-go task
No full textBehavioral inhibition is a temperamental tendency associated with heightened risk for developing anxiety disorders. Individuals with behaviorally inhibited temperament tend to avoid or withdraw from novel situations, which may be associated with prefrontal cortical activation related to cognitive control. The purpose of this study is to investigate how behavioral inhibition influences cognitive control using an emotional Go/No-go task. Participants completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y) which assesses feelings of anxiousness, and the Adult Measure of Behavioral Inhibition, which measures behaviorally inhibited temperament. Participants then completed an emotional Go/No-go task utilizing neutral and negative stimuli and asking participants to quickly respond (Go) to a designated target emotion while inhibiting their response (No-go) to another emotion. Brain activity of the prefrontal cortex was concurrently measured during the Go/No-go task using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). The results show a relationship between affect (the emotion shown) and response accuracy. Further, we saw an interaction between response type and emotion, where participants showed higher response accuracy in No-go negative trials, compared to No-go neutral trials. Brain activity differences can also be seen when comparing participants who were low in behavioral inhibition with those who were high in behavioral inhibition: showing that participants who were high in behavioral inhibition showed greater brain activity specifically in the No-go condition
An Earthly Story with a Heavenly Meaning
No full textFor G.K. Chesterton, each human life was a story with a secret significance—“an earthly story with a heavenly meaning.” Like Chesterton, Father Ian Boyd dedicated his life and his work to the knowledge and love of that meaning. This volume presents twenty-two of Father Boyd’s essays on Chesterton—the man himself and his vast array of writings. In the words of Dermot Quinn, Father Boyd “would talk about Chesterton to anyone, and with the enthusiasm of one talking about him for the first time. Chesterton never grew stale for him. Constantly refreshed by his triumphant common sense, he wanted others to enjoy the same experience. If such discipleship brought burdens, he shouldered them cheerfully. The world needed to hear from Chesterton and for half a century Ian Boyd made sure that it did.”https://scholarship.shu.edu/faculty-publications/1093/thumbnail.jp