scholarly journals Supply-Side Model of Academic Publishing in Croatia (2012–2018)

Knygotyra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 66-91
Author(s):  
Filip Horvat ◽  
Zoran Velagić
Keyword(s):  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Public Subsidies ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
Insight Into

The paper examines and presents the scale and structure of recent (2012–2018) academic publishing in Croatia, with a focus on academic books and journals, the participation of institutions and publishers, scientific fields and disciplines, and invested financial means. As Croatian academic production to a large extent depends on subsidies, the paper is based on the analyses of data from seven years of subventions, which the Croatian Ministry of Sciences and Education allocates to national academic publish­ers, regardless if they are academic institutions or privately owned publish­ers. Conducted analyses provide detailed insight into the model of supply-side academic publishing and into national academic publishing in general. The topics – academic publishing and system of subsidies – have rarely been addressed in recent research. Thus, this paper offers new insights for researchers (e.g. providing knowledge about the scale and structure of academic publishing), provides evaluation possibilities for policymakers (e.g. to design the tools for monitoring and improving the system of public subsidies), and provide comparable perspective for national academic pub­lishing in the context of European academic publishing setting.

The Younghusband-Waddell Collection and Its People: the Social Life of Tibetan Books Gathered in a Late-colonial Enterprise

Inner Asia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-171
Author(s):  
Hildegard Diemberger
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Cultural Biography ◽  
The Social ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIn this paper I follow the social life of the Tibetan books belonging to the Younghusband-Waddell collection. I show how books as literary artefacts can transform from ritual objects into loot, into commodities and into academic treasures and how books can have agency over people, creating networks and shaping identities. Exploring connections between books and people, I look at colonial collecting, Orientalist scholarship and imperial visions from an unusual perspective in which the social life and cultural biography of people and things intertwine and mutually define each other. By following the trajectory of these literary artefacts, I show how their traces left in letters, minutes and acquisition documents give insight into the functioning of academic institutions and their relationship to imperial governing structures and individual aspirations. In particular, I outline the lives of a group of scholars who were involved with this collection in different capacities and whose deeds are unevenly known. This adds a new perspective to the study of this period, which has so far been largely focused on the deeds of key individuals and the political and military setting in which they operated. Finally, I show how the books of this collection have continued to exercise their attraction and moral pressure on twenty-first-century scholars, both Tibetan and international, linking them through digital technology and cyberspace.

scholarly journals GUIDELINES FOR DESIGNING SAND NOURISHMENT ON LOW TO VERY EXPOSED COASTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Henrik Vinge Karlsson ◽  
Britt Gadesboll Larsen ◽  
Per Sorensen
Keyword(s):  
Natural Variation ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Coastal Protection ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Protection Scheme ◽  
Coastal Cliff ◽  
Sand Nourishment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
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Danish law establishes a common right of passage on foot along the Danish shoreline, even though beaches are often privately owned. The law also states that coastal protection must not hinder this. Therefore, sand nourishment should be part of every coastal protection scheme against erosion. Sand nourishments can be designed in numerous ways depending on their objectives. As part of the European Interreg project, Building With Nature (BWN), guidelines will be developed by the Danish Coastal Authority (DCA) in end-2020. This abstract presents these guidelines with special focus on the coasts of Denmark. Special emphasis will be on insight into the natural variation of the coasts, as this is vital both when designing effective coastal protection schemes and when evaluating the impact of the nourishment. In this project, the pathway along which sediment is being transported spans from offshore at the outer bar to the coastal cliff. The aim is to be able to determine the along- and cross-shore paths, along which the nourishment sand is transported, the diffusion velocity of the nourishment and the impact on the surrounding coasts. Based on the results of the multiple analysis, the primary objective is to produce guidelines on how to use sand nourishment to counteract erosion in a sustainable and socioeconomic way.Recorded Presentation from the vICCE (YouTube Link): https://youtu.be/nIrFFmH98V8

scholarly journals SPARC Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry – Implications for Academic Institutions

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Aspesi ◽  
Nicole Starr Allen ◽  
Raym Crow ◽  
Shawn Daugherty ◽  
Heather Joseph ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Landscape Analysis ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Education Process

This landscape analysis was produced by SPARC in response to the growing trend of commercial acquisition of critical infrastructure in our institutions. It is intended to provide a comprehensive look at the current players in this arena, their strategies and potential actions, and the implications of these on the operations of our libraries and home institutions. It also outlines suggestions for an initial set of strategic responses for the community to evaluate in order to ensure it controls both this infrastructure and the data generated by/resident on it. We are at a critical juncture where there is a pressing need for the academic community – individually and collectively – to make thoughtful and deliberate decisions about what and whom to support – and under what terms and conditions. These decisions will determine who ultimately controls the research and education process; and whether we meaningfully address inequities created by legacy players or simply recreate them in new ways. These decisions will shape libraries’ role in the scholarly enterprise, now and for the future.

scholarly journals The hurdles of academic publishing from the perspective of journal editors: a case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej J. Mrowinski ◽  
Agata Fronczak ◽  
Piotr Fronczak ◽  
Olgica Nedic ◽  
Aleksandar Dekanski
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Editorial Process ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract In this paper, we provide insight into the editorial process as seen from the perspective of journal editors. We study a dataset obtained from the Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, which contains information about submitted and rejected manuscripts, in order to find differences between local (Serbian) and external (non-Serbian) submissions. We show that external submissions (mainly from India, Iran and China) constitute the majority of all submissions, while local submissions are in the minority. Most of submissions are rejected for technical reasons (e.g. wrong manuscript formatting or problems with images) and many users resubmit the same paper without making necessary corrections. Manuscripts with just one author are less likely to pass the technical check, which can be attributed to missing metadata. Articles from local authors are better prepared and require fewer resubmissions on average before they are accepted for peer review. The peer review process for local submissions takes less time than for external papers and local submissions are more likely to be accepted for publication. Also, while there are more men than women among external users, this trend is reversed for local users. In the combined group of local and external users, articles submitted by women are more likely to be published than articles submitted by men.

“To Immerse their Wives”: Communal Identity and the “Kahalishe” Mikveh of Altona

AJS Review ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-279
Author(s):  
Debra Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Lay Leaders ◽  
Communal Identity ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Communal Institutions ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Insight Into

On Sunday, the twelfth of Adar, March 2, 1681, theparnasim, the lay leaders of Altona, recorded an enactment in their communal logbook, thepinkas kehillah, regulating women's use of the localmikva'ot. Designating two privately-owned ritual baths as the only approved immersion locations for most of the women in the community, they decreed that defiance of this decree was to be punished with some of the most severe weapons in the arsenal of the communal leaders. Four years later, theparnasimreversed their policy and, with the permission of the community's rabbinic leadership, required the women to use only the newly builtkahalishe, or community,mikveh, banning the use of the two previously approvedmikva'ot. This article examines the construction and reconstruction of these policies regulating women's use ofmikva'ot, offering insight into how designated communal institutions were developed in the early modern period as well as how these institutions were used both to finance the community and to forge communal identity. Moreover, consideration of themikvehas a locus for building communal institutions and, in particular, communal identity, offers insight into how the growing bureaucratization of Jewish communal life in the early modern period affected women's lives.

Facebook as an Informal Tool for Learning: Exploring Perceptions of Greek LIS Undergraduate Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgenia Vassilakaki ◽  
Emmanouel Garoufallou
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Facebook Use ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
Insight Into

Facebook use in higher education has been explored from different perspectives (i.e. academic institutions, teachers, students). This research aimed to investigate Greek Library and Information Science undergraduate students perceptions of Facebook use for educational purposes. A questionnaire was distributed online during the first two weeks of June 2015 to 278 undergraduate students studying Library and Information Science in Greece. 135 questionnaires were collected with an overall response rate 48.6%. It was found that students employ Facebook mainly for social interaction and communicate though they do recognize the educational potential of social networking sites. Academic institutions and teachers need to stay up-to-dated with the emergence of new Web 2.0 tools and use them when appropriate to meet their goals. This research contributes in providing a further insight into the way students employ social networking sites and thus, assist academic institutions in formulating their strategy and teachers in incorporating Facebook in delivering their courses.

scholarly journals Privatisation and Workers’ Compensation in Privatised State-Owned Enterprises in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Mehadi Mamun ◽  
Mamun Billah
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Complete Report ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
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This paper examines the impact of privatisation on workers’ compensation in privatised state-owned enterprises in Bangladesh. The study employs five case studies using a qualitative approach. Studying multiple cases is considered more reliable as it permits replication and extension. The qualitative approach helps to build a holistic picture, which allows for the assembling of a comprehensive and complete report of the issues under investigation. The research finds that workers’ compensations in most privatised case study organisations are less than their counterparts in comparable state-owned and privately-owned organisations. The findings have important implications for the privatisation programmes in Bangladesh as the study focuses on workers who are the major workforce of privatised organisations and generates qualitative data that provides greater insight into the impact of privatisation on workers’ compensation in Bangladesh.

scholarly journals An experimental study of the generation of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial academic literature market

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas William Fox ◽  
Edmond Grigoryan ◽  
Nathan Honeycutt ◽  
Lee Jussim
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Print Publications ◽  
Insight Into

Academic publishing has changed substantially in the past 30 years due to the advent of the internet. Unlike print publications, digital publications have the ability to provide additional information to visitors about the publication and previous readers via metadata like download counts. This study investigated the effect of this metadata on the development of download inequality and unpredictability of success in an experimental academic literature marketplace. We found that presence of an accurate download count increased inequality in article downloads, meaning fewer papers accumulated a larger share of the total download count. We also found that the presence of download count increased the unpredictability of success, meaning across identical instances, different papers became the most popular. Finally, an exploratory analysis found papers were more highly rated when download counts were present. Together, these findings provide insight into how the download behaviors of previous academic readers may influence literature choice.

scholarly journals From the ethology of animals to the human ecology

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Łepko
Keyword(s):  
Human Ecology ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Academic Achievements ◽  
Konrad Lorenz ◽  
The Future ◽  
Theories Of Evolution ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
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The title “From the ethology of animals to human ecology” acknowledges both the theories of evolution developed in numerous scientific fields of science, and the academic achievements of Konrad Lorenz and his partners, the development of which are shown through the order of studies they published, from the scope of classical ethology and the row of humanities, to philosophy and human ecology. Lorenz conducted an ethological examination of human culture, thereby uncovering its biological bases, its dynamics, social pathologies and means for overcoming them. Thanks to this Lorenz gained an insight into the character of the crisis of contemporary civilization, described and diagnosed it, presented the causes and proposed a cure. Lorenz recommended mobilizing efforts to create an ecological ethos for those surviving on Earth. Today it isn’t possible to predict the future of Homo sapiens on our planet, however, it is our duty to prepare for our struggle to survive. It is not only about survival but also about the preservation of the human way of life. This is a matter of biological and spiritual survival. Therefore, Lorenz’s ethological humanism takes on the mantle of a new ‘evolutionary humanism’.

Dyslexia – a learning disability or an educational trend? People with reading and writing disorders in the light of worldwide regulations and the legislative acts applied in Poland and Great Britain as well as in the social perception

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Monika Chodyna-Santus
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Educational Trend ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
Insight Into

Dyslexia – a term appearing in various aspects, for some – a disorder of reading and writing, for others – a social construct, in some areas regarded as a disability, in others as an excuse, perceived as a disease or a mystery disorder. The term used in scientific fields, educational units, in the educational reports and acts, as well as in the media and common discourse. Among arising doubts concerning the disorder, the rights of people with dyslexia bring on the controversy and emotions. The article points to the worldwide regulations, with emphasis on legislative acts applied in Poland and the UK, shows the situation of people with dyslexia in schools and the workplace. It also shows that the regulations constitute both the basis of due rights as well as cause disputes in the context of their appropriateness and necessity. The article is an insight into the aspects of legal regulations concerning the disorders and the social tensions or doubts concerning them.

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