scholarly journals Open access and connectedness: stimulating unexpected innovation through the use of institutional open archives

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann van Reenen
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Infinite Variety ◽  
The University ◽  
Open Archives

The author reviews past work with Ibict and the global progress made by the Open Access Movement. He postulates a theory of open access being an example of a complex adaptive system created by Internet-based scholarly publishing. Open access could be the cause of a cascade of increasing complexity and opportunities that will reshape this system. He has chosen the pervasive and global "Connectedness" created by the internet and the content spaces it provides for open access collections as a "simple disruptive agent". He discusses how connectedness influences infinite variety, creativity, work, change, knowledge, and the information economy. Case studies from the University of New Mexico Libraries are used where appropriate.

scholarly journals The university library as a complex adaptive system (CAS)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Moraes de Bem ◽  
Christianne Coelho de Souza Reinisch Coelho ◽  
Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
University Library ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
The University

scholarly journals University Library as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS)

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Moraes De Bem ◽  
Christianne Coelho de Souza Reinisch Coelho ◽  
Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
University Library ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
The University

The paper introduces a theoretical model based on literature review for understanding the University Libraries as Complex Adaptive Systems, introducing a new methodology to deal with these institutions. It is a possibility for University Libraries managers to glimpse the unstable scenario of these institutions. This approach is based on the literature review to identify approaches considering the complexity within the libraries in order to base the construction of a model as a proposal. Although there are approaches that consider the University Library as a complex institution, it attests that this is not considered in its entirety, that is, not all its services and agents are involved, but only focus on some aspects or services. Besides, the characterization and understanding of the University Library as a Complex Adaptive System is unknown in the literature. The proposal of a model facilitates the understanding and provides the possibility of practical application for characterization of these institutions, University Libraries, as Complex Adaptive Systems, providing different types of knowledge, as well as the strategies and actions necessary to adapt to the ephemeral context in which they operate.

Hybridität als Motor und als Ergebnis von Sprachwandel

Glottotheory ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Csaba Földes
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Adaptive System ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Explanatory Variable ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Linguistic Innovation

AbstractThis paper deals with constellations in which, as consequences of linguistic interculturality, elements of two or more languages encounter each other and result in something partially or completely new, an – occasionally temporary – “third quality”, namely hybridity. The paper contributes to the meta-discourse and theory formation by questioning the concept, term and content of “linguistic hybridity”. It also submits a proposal for a typology of linguistic-communicative hybridity that consists of the following prototypical main groups, each with several subtypes: (1) language-cultural, (2) semiotic, (3) medial, (4) communicative, (5) systematic, (6) paraverbal and (7) nonverbal hybridity. At last, the paper examines hybridity as an explanatory variable for language change. In conclusion, hybridity is generally a place of cultural production, with special regard to communication and language it is potentially considered as an incubator of linguistic innovation. Hybridity can be seen as the engine and as the result of language change, or language development. It represents an essential factor by which language functions and develops as a complex adaptive system. Hybridity operates as a continuous cycle. By generating innovation, it triggers language change, which in turn, leads to further and new hybridizations. The processuality of hybridity creates diversity, while at the same time it can cause the vanishing of diversity.

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