1,403 research outputs found
RoMEO Studies 6: Rights metadata for open-archiving
No full textThis is the final study in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving) which investigated the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues relating to academic author self-archiving of research papers. It reports the results of a survey of 542 academic authors showing the level of protection required for their open-access research papers. It then describes the selection of an appropriate means of expressing those rights through metadata and the resulting choice of Creative Commons licences. Finally it outlines proposals for communicating rights metadata via the Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
RoMEO Studies 2: How academics wish to protect their open-access research paper
No full textThis paper is the second in a series of studies (see Gadd, E., C. Oppenheim, and S. Probets. RoMEO Studies 1: The impact of copyright ownership on author-self-archiving. Journal of Documentation. 59(3) 243-277) emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers the protection for research papers afforded by UK copyright law, and by e-journal licences. It compares this with the protection required by academic authors for open-access research papers as discovered by the RoMEO academic author survey. The survey used the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) as a framework for collecting views from 542 academics as to the permissions, restrictions, and conditions they wanted to assert over their works. Responses from self-archivers and non-archivers are compared. Concludes that most academic authors are primarily interested in preserving their moral rights, and that the protection offered research papers by copyright law is way in excess of that required by most academics. It also raises concerns about the level of protection enforced by e-journal licence agreement
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
No full textThis article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both partie
RoMEO Studies 5: IPR issues for OAI Data and Service Providers
No full textThis paper is the fifth in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It reports the results of two surveys of OAI Data Providers (DPs) and Service Providers (SPs) with regards to the rights issues they face. It finds that very few DPs have rights agreements with depositing authors and that there is no standard approach to the creation of rights metadata. The paper considers the rights protection afforded individual and collections of metadata records under UK Law and contrasts this with DP and SP’s views on the rights status of metadata and how they wish to protect it. The majority of DP and SPs believe that a standard way of describing both the rights status of documents and of metadata would be usefu
RoMEO Studies 3: How academics expect to use open-access research papers
No full textThis paper is the third in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers previous studies of the usage of electronic journal articles through a literature survey. It then reports on the results of a survey of 542 academic authors as to how they expected to use open-access research papers. This data is compared with results from the second of the RoMEO Studies series as to how academics wished to protect their open-access research papers. The ways in which academics expect to use open-access works (including activities, restrictions and conditions) are described. It concludes that academics-as-users do not expect to perform all the activities with open-access research papers that academics-as-authors would allow. Thus the rights metadata proposed by the RoMEO Project would appear to meet the usage requirements of most academics
Studiare sociologia della comunicazione oggi
No full textIl contributo evidenzia il ruolo sempre più pervasivo che, negli ultimi decenni, la comunicazione nella sua forma digitale ha iniziato a rivestire all’interno del nostro quotidiano. Un ruolo che ha consentito, per un verso, di rendere più evidenti le funzioni della comunicazione stessa e, per altro verso, ha introdotto pratiche innovative.
A fronte di tali considerazioni, viene presa in esame la necessità di introdurre nuovi strumenti per l'insegnamento e lo studio della Sociologia della Comunicazione oggi
I sociologi dimenticati. Antologia del pensiero proto sociologico italiano
No full textL’antologia che si propone non si pone obiettivi di esaustività del patrimonio proto-sociologico, quanto di esplorazione selettiva di alcune sue parti, spesso quelle più immerse nell’oblio delle biblioteche e, a modesto avviso di chi scrive, anche della critica. Gli obiettivi di classificazione e temporizzazione seguiti dagli studiosi delle storia della sociologia sono qui affiancati da un tentativo di confronto epistemologico e metodologico fra la prima sociologia e la sociologia contemporanea. Si evidenzia, infatti, una continuità – pur nella diversità dei contesti sociali analizzati – nel ruolo del sociologo e nei temi oggetto della sua indagine che possono profilare nuovi scenari di osservazione per gli storici della sociologia. I temi affrontati – dalle questioni fondamentali per la sociologia (Capitolo Primo) ai suoi temi basilari (Capitolo Secondo) agli ambiti applicativi della politica (Capitolo Terzo) e della cultura (Capitolo Quarto), per chiudere con il discorso sociologico sulle prospettive dinamiche (Capitolo Quinto) presentano deliberatamente i contributi di sociologi “dimenticati” in una sequenza concettuale e non cronologica. Al lettore si propone una selezione sui temi prescelti che i contributi del quarantennio di produzione analizzato approfondiscono con particolare riguardo a: - impostazione teorica di riferimento: gli autori prescelti si ispirano generalmente alle correnti darwinista (ad es. Michele Angelo Vaccaro e Alessandro Chiappelli) e positivista (come nel caso di Achille Loria e Lodovico Franbcesco Ardy), ma soprattutto in contributi della seconda fase della proto-sociologia molti autori propongono analisi critiche degli stessi paradigmi seguiti; - ruolo riconosciuto alla sociologia: alcuni degli autori proposti intendono procedere ad una sistematizzazione della sociologia attraverso manuali (ad es. Squillace, Vanni e de Marinis), ovvero con prove scientifiche di diagnosi dei problemi sociali (fra questi Loria, Sighele e Chiappelli), riflettendo oggettivamente l’influenza del proprio contesto di produzione e del loro profilo biografico. Alcuni autori, peraltro, nella loro vita quotidiana rivestivano funzioni politiche ed istituzionali, altri ruoli accademici ed altri ancora si esprimevano come intellettuali puri nella produzione delle loro opere; - metodologia di lavoro: la critica ha spesso accusato i proto-sociologi di operare raccogliendo e ripresentando senza una specifica selezione critica e in pura funzione enciclopedica i contributi sociologici dei più noti colleghi, specie stranieri. Allo stesso modo, gli strumenti sociologici, secondo la critica, non sono stati utilizzati per la loro autentica funzione nell’osservazione della realtà che è stata solitamente trattata con un fare cronachistico, raramente seguito da un’apprezzabile analisi scientifica. I contributi qui presentati vogliono iniziare a far intravvedere una metodologia di lavoro e di analisi bensì orientata ad un procedimento di indagine realmente scientifico, semmai dotato di un approccio originale all’osservazione, ma anche all’immaginazione sociologica. Questa prima esperienza di lettura della prima sociologia resta per chi scrive un immenso regalo alla nostra curiositas sociologica, quanto, ci auguriamo, lo sia anche per i lettori, per potersi accostare alla scienza prediletta con il beneficio di un patrimonio che non sia più identificabile come “dimenticato”.The anthology that aims not exhaustive sets objectives of heritage proto -sociological exploration of how selective some of its parts , often those most immersed in oblivion of libraries and , in this writer's humble opinion , even the critics. The objectives of classification and timing followed by the scholars of the history of sociology are here accompanied by an attempt to epistemological and methodological comparison between the first sociology and contemporary sociology . It should be noted , in fact, a continuity - despite the diversity of social contexts analyzed - in the role of the sociologist and the themes of his investigation that may outline new scenarios of observation for the historical sociology.
The topics - from fundamental issues for sociology ( Chapter One ) to its underlying themes ( Chapter Two ) to the application areas of policy ( Chapter Three ) and culture ( Chapter Four ) , to close with the sociological discourse on the prospects dynamics ( Chapter fifth ) have deliberately contributions of sociologists "forgotten" in a conceptual and chronological sequence .
The reader will offer you a selection on themes chosen that the contributions of forty years of production deepen analyzed with particular regard to:
- Theoretical approach of reference : the authors selected are based generally on current Darwinian (eg . Michele Angelo Vaccaro and Alexander Chiappelli ) and positivist ( as in the case of Achille Loria and Lodovico Franbcesco Ardy ), but especially in the contributions of the second phase of the proto sociology - many authors propose critical analyzes of the same paradigms followed ;
- Recognized role to sociology : some of the authors intend to proceed with a proposed systematization of the sociology through manuals (eg . Squillace , Vanni and de Marinis ), or with scientific evidence of diagnosis of social problems (among them Loria , Sighele and Chiappelli ) objectively reflecting the influence of the context of their production and their biographical profile . Some authors , however, in their daily lives once covered the political and institutional functions , other academic positions and others were expressed as pure intellectuals in the production of their works;
- Methodology of work: critics have often accused the proto- sociologists to work collecting and promptly returned without a specific critical selection and pure function encyclopedic sociological contributions of the most well-known colleagues , especially foreigners. Similarly, the sociological tools , according to the critics , have not been used for their authentic function in the observation of the reality that was usually treated with a do chronicles rarely followed by an appreciable scientific analysis. The contributions presented here want to start making a glimpse of a working methodology and analysis but geared to a really scientific investigation procedure , if anything, comes with an original approach to observation, but also sociological imagination .
This first experience of reading the first sociology remains for anyone who writes an immense gift to our curiositas sociological , as we hope , it is also for readers to be able to pull a favorite science with the benefit of an asset that is no longer identifiable as "forgotten"
Rileggere / Re-reading Romeo and Juliet
No full textCollana "Saggi e Testi", Dipartimento di Anglistica, Università degli Studi di Veron
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