scholarly journals Editorial

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Greco
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
Publication Process ◽  
Future Paper ◽  
The Future ◽  
Strong Commitment ◽  
The Moment ◽  
University Of Zurich ◽  
The University

We are excited to announce that, starting with this issue 17(1), our journal Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) will be published Open Access on the HOPE platform of the Hauptbibliothek of the University of Zurich; you can access our new SComS at www.scoms.ch. HOPE refers to Hauptbibliothek Open Publishing Environment. Located in and managed by a Swiss academic institution, this platform provides full open access to SComS contents, with a strong commitment to a transparent and qualitatively excellent publication process, whilst guaranteeing no publishing fees for our authors. We are grateful to Elsevier for our collaboration, which lasted from 2012 to 2016; now the moment has come for us to be open to the future. Paper copies of our new SComS will still be available – for example, in the main libraries at Swiss universities; but all the contents will be also freely available for everybody to download from our website.

scholarly journals Exploring the University as an e-Textbook Provider of Scholarly Work

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Rennie ◽  
Keith Smyth ◽  
Gareth Davies ◽  
Scott Connor ◽  
Laurence Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Publication Process ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
Global Space ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
The University ◽  
Storage Distribution

Despite the growth in the popularity of e-textbooks, there has yet to be adopted an effective model through which an academic institution can easily re-purpose the scholarly output of its staff to allow global and affordable access to students. This paper describes a research project designed to explore effective processes for the university to become a digital publisher of its own academic output. The project produced two e-textbooks, focusing on using Amazon Kindle for distribution, each book with a free companion website of open access learning resources. The use of the e-texts and the websites were then monitored for evaluation. The publication process was documented and will be made publicly available in the final report on the JISC website. In summary, the pre-publication tasks are almost identical to the production of a conventional printed book, but at publication, everything else changes. The e-textbook system minimises the problems of storage, distribution, pricing, and updating which is faced by the printed book. The companion websites provide a global space with resources complementary to the e-book, which can be updated without the requirement to amend the e-textbook. Several different categories of e-books have been identified, from short handbooks for internal course use, through open-access textbooks, to flagship commercial publications. It is recognised that these e-publications may replace or co-exist with both printed books and companion websites.

scholarly journals Checking in with the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Demmy Verbeke ◽  
Laura Mesotten
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
The Future ◽  
Commercial Publishing ◽  
The University

KU Leuven has been supporting Green OA through its institutional repository Lirias for many years already. As it is clear, however, that Green OA provides only part of the solution for the crisis in scholarly communication, the university was looking to intensify its efforts to maximize exchange, collaboration and innovation thanks to the dissemination of scholarly results. This led to the establishment of the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access in March 2018. This fund initially provided financial support for the production costs of OA monographs published by Leuven University Press as well as for the production costs of articles published in OA journals, on the condition that these journals are published according to the Fair OA model and maintain the highest academic standards. As of 2019, the scope of the fund was broadened to include financial support to non-commercial publishing initiatives and infrastructures in general. This poster briefly presents the KU Leuven Fund for Fair OA and details which articles, books, initiatives and infrastructures are supported during the first two years of operation. It also discusses the future of the fund and how it ties in with the open scholarship roadmap within KU Leuven.

scholarly journals Uma protopia para a universidade brasileira

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Naomar Almeida-Filho ◽  
Luis Eugenio Souza
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
University Reform ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The Future ◽  
Alternative Proposal ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The University

From a historical-critical perspective and based on the semantic series utopia-atopy-dystopia-protopy, we analyse the “Future-se”, a project presented by the Ministry of Education of Brazil for the reform of federal universities. From this perspective, firstly, we propose the characterization of two distinct models of the university, which emerged at the moment of the consolidation of the political power of the bourgeoisie, one of them being utopian and the other atopic. Secondly, we describe the historical evolution of the university in Brazil, until arriving at the “Future-se” proposal. Finally, we present an alternative proposal for university reform as part of the strategy of agglutination of forces to resist the “Future-se” and advance towards strengthening of the university as a necessary element for the sovereign, inclusive and sustainable development of the country.

scholarly journals A Brief History of the Future of World Society

2005 ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Mark Herkenrath ◽  
Claudia König ◽  
Hanno Scholtz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Symposium ◽  
World Society ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Degree Of Certainty ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Zurich ◽  
The University

Earlier versions of the articles in this issue were presented and discussed atthe international symposium on “The Future of World Society,” held in June 2004 at the University of Zurich.¹ The theme of the symposium implied two assumptions. One, there is in fact a world society, though still very much in formation. And two, as social scientists we are in a position to predict the future of that society with at least some degree of certainty. The ?rst of these assumptions will be addressed in Alberto Martinelli’s timely contribution, “From World System to World Society?” It is the second assumption which is of interest to us in this introduction. Are the social sciences really able to predict the future of world society?

scholarly journals Managing an Open Access Fund: Tips from the Trenches and Questions for the Future

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Zuniga ◽  
Lilian Hoffecker
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

The authors describe the process and results of an ongoing Open Access Fund program at the Health Sciences Library of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.  The fund has helped students and other early career researchers pay for the article processing charge or APC to publish their articles in an OA journal since 2013.  In the three years since, the fund has paid the APC for 39 applicants with a total expenditure of $37,576.  Most applicants were students as intended, however the fund supported a surprisingly large number of medical residents and junior faculty.  Individuals associated with the School of Medicine overwhelmingly represented the awardees compared to other units, and the Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals were the most common journal they published in.  While acknowledging the undeniable benefit of the fund to the awardees, the authors also pose challenging questions about the future role of libraries in subsidizing open access journals.

scholarly journals Editorial

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Lobinger ◽  
Sara Greco
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Thematic Section ◽  
Second Year ◽  
General Section ◽  
University Of Zurich ◽  
The University

This issue marks the second year since Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) is published Open Access on the HOPE platform of the University of Zurich (www. scoms.ch). The present issue of SComS perfectly reflects the unique character of the journal. Not only do we present you a thematic section with a very innovative topic, namely Fashion Communication. We also collect three papers in the general section that, despite their different topics, have something in common that is telling for the role of communication in Switzerland.

“The Future Depends on What You Do Today”

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-51
Author(s):  
Paul Ayris
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Research Integrity ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
The Future ◽  
University College London ◽  
The University

UCL (University College London) strongly supports the implementation of Open Science policies and practices. The library has taken the lead in the university across all eight areas of Open Science: the Future of Scholarly Communication, the EOSC, FAIR data, Skills, Research Integrity, Rewards, Altmetrics, and Citizen Science. UCL has modified these themes slightly to better fit its academic requirements, developing ambitious programmes and services to support the change of culture which is required. From the future of scholarly publishing, with the formation of UCL Press as the UK's first fully open access university press, to research data management, rewards, research integrity and next-generation metrics, UCL has become a leader in Open Science. This chapter analyses the success of UCL to date, describes the challenges, shows the benefits, and indicates what future steps are being planned to deliver a culture where Open Science is the default, thus delivering on the prophecy of Mahatma Ghandi, one of UCL's most illustrious alumni, ‘The future depends on what you do today'.

Chelovek.RU/Человек.RU

Chelovek RU ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 18-53
Author(s):  
Sergei Avanesov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Great Distance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Pavel Florensky ◽  
The Moment

Abstract. The article analyzes the autobiography of the famous Russian philosopher, theologian and scientist Pavel Florensky, as well as those of his texts that retain traces of memories. According to Florensky, the personal biography is based on family history and continues in children. He addresses his own biography to his children. Memories based on diary entries are designed as a memory diary, that is, as material for future memories. The past becomes actual in autobiography, turns into a kind of present. The past, from the point of view of its realization in the present, gains meaning and significance. The au-thor is active in relation to his own past, transforming it from a collection of disparate facts into a se-quence of events. A person can only see the true meaning of such events from a great distance. Therefore, the philosopher remembers not so much the circumstances of his life as the inner impressions of the en-counter with reality. The most powerful personality-forming experiences are associated with childhood. Even the moment of birth can decisively affect the character of a person and the range of his interests. The foundations of a person's worldview are laid precisely in childhood. Florensky not only writes mem-oirs about himself, but also tries to analyze the problems of time and memory. A person is immersed in time, but he is able to move into the past through memory and into the future through faith. An autobi-ography can never be written to the end because its author lives on. However, reaching the depths of life, he is able to build his path in such a way that at the end of this path he will unite with the fullness of time, with eternity.

Report on the Sixth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2018)

AI Magazine ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiling Chen ◽  
Gabriella Kazai
Keyword(s):  
Human Computation ◽  
University Of Zurich ◽  
The University

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s Sixth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing was held on the campus of the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland from 5–8 July 2018. This report, based on the preface to the HCOMP-18 proceedings and program, summarizes the event.

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