Will the rise of Sci-Hub pave the road for the subscription-based access to publishing databases?

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 540-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wadim Strielkowski
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Output ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Status ◽  
Online Music ◽  
Music Streaming ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Sci-hub has become the new phenomenon on the academic publishing market. While its popularity is growing worldwide, large academic publishers are losing millions of dollars on paid article downloads. Perhaps the time has come to re-think the rules of the game of the publishing market and to look for novel solutions for monetizing scientific output. Subscription-based access to publishing databases, similar to the model used in online music streaming, might be one of these solutions that could secure the status quo and stabilize the market.

scholarly journals Chinese-style Off-campus Education: Research on the Popularity of After-school Training Institutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 247-251
Author(s):  
Xianli Zhu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
After School ◽  
Education Evaluation ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Status ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
School Training ◽  
Education In China

This paper is mainly about the status quo and long-lasting problems of off-campus education in China. There is no doubt that education should be student-oriented. However, most of Chinese after-school training institutions are carrying out the exam-oriented courses crazily, which ignores the differences of individuals, the rules of their mental and physical development, not to mention the study interests tend to withered away. Various factors are no strangers to this phenomenon, from the educational system, educational needs of every family to the atmosphere created by the training institutions. As a result, a large quantity of people are accustomed to judging the achievements of adolescents down the road simply by predicting their test scores, linking the needs of education with the good jobs and high incomes rather than self-realization. The Education Evaluation System has gradually simplified in a disapproving way, and young people are equal to nothing but an index on their transcripts. People who find themselves embroiled in this ever-spiraling situation feel progressively anxious about score and time, which corrodes the very foundation of Chinese education.

How much is global governance changing? The G20 as international practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew F Cooper ◽  
Vincent Pouliot
Keyword(s):  
Global Governance ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Evolutionary Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The One ◽  
Rules Of The Game

Is the G20 transforming global governance, or does it reinforce the status quo? In this article we argue that as innovative as some diplomatic practices of the G20 may be, we should not overstate their potential impact. More specifically, we show that G20 diplomacy often reproduces many oligarchic tendencies in global governance, while also relaxing club dynamics in some ways. On the one hand, the G20 has more inductees who operate along new rules of the game and under a new multilateral ethos of difference. But, on the other hand, the G20 still comprises self-appointed rulers, with arbitrary rules of membership and many processes of cooption and discipline. In overall terms, approaching G20 diplomacy from a practice perspective not only provides us with the necessary analytical granularity to tell the old from the new, it also sheds different light on the dialectics of stability and change on the world stage. Practices are processes and as such they are always subject to evolutionary change. However, because of their structuring effects, diplomatic practices also tend to inhibit global transformation and reproduce the existing order.

scholarly journals Review: Why the Pacific status quo is no longer an option

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Francis X Hezel
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Journal Editor ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Family Land

Hezel, Father Francis X. (2015). Why the Pacific status quo is no longer an option. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 195-196. Review of Idyllic No More: Pacific Island Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas, by Giff Johnson. Majuro, Marshall Islands: CreateSpace. 2015. 153 pp. ISBN 978-1-512235-58-6Giff Johnson’s latest work, Idyllic No More: Pacific Islands Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas, is a call to serious planning and more. The Marshall Islands Journal editor summons leaders to recognise that life has changed in the country and the status quo is the road to disaster. There was a time when this might not have been true—when people who wanted to kick back and live a simple island life could quietly opt out of school and retire to the family land to provide for themselves as their ancestors had done for generations in an island society that offered the resources, physical and social, to support its population.

scholarly journals Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices

Daedalus ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Greenstone ◽  
Adam Looney
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
National Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
External Costs ◽  
The Road ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
The Status

Energy consumption is critical to economic growth and quality of life. America's energy system, however, is malfunctioning. The status quo is characterized by a tilted playing field, where energy choices are based on the visible costs that appear on utility bills and at gas pumps. This system masks the “external” costs arising from those energy choices, including shorter lives, higher health care expenses, a changing climate, and weakened national security. As a result, we pay unnecessarily high costs for energy. New “rules of the road” could level the energy playing field. Drawing from our work for The Hamilton Project, this paper offers four principles for reforming U.S. energy policies in order to increase Americans' well-being.

Reflection on education equity in Vietnam: Teachers' and students' voices in an English tourism programme

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-155
Author(s):  
Giang Nguyen Hoang Le
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Road ◽  
Professional Experiences ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
Vietnamese Higher Education ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Status ◽  
Higher Education Internationalization

Abstract In this article context, I recall my memories as a Vietnamese English for Tourism Purposes (ETP) programme teacher and a student who grappled with many inequities in the nationwide process of internationalization of higher education. The equity-related issues include the teacher's unpreparedness with the adoption of foreign curriculum, the teacher's lack of recognition of the local cultures, and the unfair treatment of the Vietnamese ETP interns in the workplace. I write this article in the role of a narrator, sharing my personal and professional experiences to give the status quo of ETP education in Vietnam and the various nuances that help unpack the realities of this situation. This reflective article intends to picture the inequities in Vietnamese higher education internationalization that both Vietnamese students and teachers encounter and to pave the road for further discussions to construct future scholarship and research.

scholarly journals Tactical Extremism

2018 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 282-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
JON X. EGUIA ◽  
FRANCESCO GIOVANNONI
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small Probability ◽  
The Road ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Future Success ◽  
The Status ◽  
Welfare Implications ◽  
The One ◽  
Mainstream Party

We provide an instrumental theory of extreme campaign platforms. By adopting an extreme platform, a previously mainstream party with a relatively small probability of winning further reduces its chances. On the other hand, the party builds credibility as the one most capable of delivering an alternative to mainstream policies. The party gambles that if down the road voters become dissatisfied with the status quo and seek something different, the party will be there ready with a credible alternative. In essence, the party sacrifices the most immediate election to invest in greater future success. We call this phenomenon tactical extremism. We show under which conditions we expect tactical extremism to arise and we discuss its welfare implications.

Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 759-762
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Energy Price ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Status ◽  
Rice University ◽  
Associate Director

Lutz Kilian of University of Michigan reviews “Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold” by Mahmoud A. El-Gamal, Amy Myers Jaffe,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Examines the causes of the current oil and global financial crisis and considers how America’s and the world’s dependence on oil has created a repeating pattern of banking, currency, and energy-price crises. Discusses the challenges of resource curses and globalization; the new Middle East--childhood, 1973-84, and adolescence, 1985-95; the road to the status quo, 1996-2008; globalization of Middle East dynamics; dollars and debt--the end of the dollar era; motivations to attack or abandon the dollar; resource curses, global volatility, and crises; and ameliorating the cycle. El-Gamal is Chair of the Department of Economics, Professor of Economics and Statistics, and Chair in Islamic Economics, Finance, and Management at Rice University. Jaffe is Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and Associate Director of the Rice University Energy Program. Bibliography; index.”

A STRATEGIC CONCESSION GAME

1999 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 103-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEFFEN JØRGENSEN ◽  
DAVID W. K. YEUNG
Keyword(s):  
Nash Equilibrium ◽  
Large Class ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Negotiation Game ◽  
Decision Variables ◽  
The Status ◽  
Rules Of The Game ◽  
Negotiation Problem

This paper considers a two-player negotiation problem with complete information and non-transferable payoffs/utilities. There are gains to be made by both players if they make bilateral concessions in their actions, relative to the status quo Nash equilibrium (NE) outcome. The failure to agree on a jointly acceptable arrangement has been a major stumbling block to the exploitation of such gains. The paper develops a concession game which has a cooperative trait in the sense that bilateral concessions in actions are sought by both players, but the game proceeds in a non-cooperative fashion in determining the levels of concessions, given a prior agreement over the rules of the game among the players. The game is applicable to a large class of bargaining situations in which both players would benefit from mutual reductions in their decision variables. Two specific applications, a tariff negotiation game and a cartel output agreement are examined.

scholarly journals Przez kwasową psychiatrię do kwasowego komunizmu. Renesans psychodeliczny w psychiatrii jako szansa na zmianę paradygmatu

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-176
Author(s):  
Radosław Stupak
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Status

Mark Fisher wrote „the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.” This paper attempts to develop this thought and show how the repoliticization of issues defined as mental illnesses that could have an emancipatory potential and undermine capitalist realism could look like and how it could be related to the contemporary phenomenon of „psychedelic renaissance”. This repoliticization could constitute the first step towards acid communism – a step that would enable a comprehensive formulation of the project, the imagining of both acid communism itself as well as the road towards it. Even though psychedelics could provide an impulse for the change of the dominant psychiatric paradigm and the reorganization of mental health services, the process of the interception of these substances by the alienating and commodificating orders of psychiatry and capitalism can already be observed, so that both of the intertwined and mutually supporting orders can in fact be strengthened. From this perspective the institution of psychiatry becomes a key element preserving the status quo, which makes the imagining of the end of capitalism impossible. Politicization of mental health, that could question capitalist realism, needs to be connected with the deconstruction of the ideology of psychiatry.

On measuring trust and distrust in journalism: Reflection of the status quo and suggestions for the road ahead

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Engelke ◽  
Valerie Hase ◽  
Florian Wintterlin
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Status
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