Chinese Early-Career Researchers' Scholarly Communication Attitudes and Behaviours: Changes Observed in Year Two of a Longitudinal Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Xu ◽  
David Nicholas ◽  
Yuanxiang Zeng ◽  
Jing Su ◽  
Anthony Watkinson
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

National comparisons of early career researchers' scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 370-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid R. Jamali ◽  
David Nicholas ◽  
Eti Herman ◽  
Cherifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri ◽  
Abdullah Abrizah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

A global questionnaire survey of the scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours of early career researchers

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nicholas ◽  
Hamid R. Jamali ◽  
Eti Herman ◽  
Anthony Watkinson ◽  
Abdullah Abrizah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

scholarly journals Open Access Articles and Position Papers

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. iv-v
Author(s):  
Gerda Wielander
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
Early Career Researchers

In addition to an overview of the issue, this article is a reminder that we are fully open access, free of charge, double-blind peer reviewed, and offer well-above-average editorial support, especially for early-career researchers. All of the editorial team work in a voluntary capacity. We are committed to finding alternative models of publishing, to reclaim the project of Open Access and key it to a different register of shared creativity and responsibility and work towards a more accessible, ethical, transparent, and creative form of scholarly communication. 

scholarly journals The ascent of SOAPbox

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niamh Brennan ◽  
Shane Collins ◽  
Linda Doyle ◽  
Helen Shenton
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Global Responsibility ◽  
Open Research

‘The Open Science revolution will be led by early-career researchers.’  Professor Linda Doyle (Dean of Research, Trinity College Dublin). Major challenges in scholarly communication worldwide have occurred over the past twenty years, but real change has been slow. However, this generation of early career researchers looks likely to finally transform the culture. SOAPbox is a drive led by Trinity College Dublin students to rapidly transform their publishing culture and processes to open access, and in doing so, to fully integrate them into the dynamically-evolving open research environment. While student open access publishing is not new, SOAPbox is distinguished by its agility, its scale and its collective focus and ambition, sustained by its alignment with global and institutional policies and objectives. This has enabled SOAPbox to capture the imagination of a university and, more than any other single initiative, galvanise its community into positive engagement with open access. In this presentation, we outline SOAPbox, its rapid progress and the cultural factors that define it. We explore how this multidisciplinary, inter-generational Open Science community of practice works; we identify early learnings from the project and provide insights into the key issues facing early-career researchers engaged in Open Science publishing. Trinity College Dublin has a history of leadership and collaboration in Open Science, technically (e.g. early CRIS/IR integration; eDeposit Ireland) and from the policy perspective (e.g. EURAB Scholarly Publication Group (Chair, 2007); EC OSPP Board and Working Group representation; Ireland’s National Open Research Forum). In 2018, the Dean of Research and the College Librarian created the TCD Open Scholarship Taskforce which includes faculty deans, researchers, library & HR personal, IT professionals and students. Central to this initiative is an understanding that the successful transition to Open Science requires radical changes in how we approach and value the practice of research. The Taskforce supports projects like SOAPbox that have a transformative effect on research culture.   We will explore the SOAPbox Key Signifiers of Transformation: The Big Bang. Very rapid platform development with lightning-fast transformation of a significant number of journals (student-run alongside illustrious academic journals); Inclusiveness. A multi-disciplinary Open Science publishing community of practice across all disciplines and all research career stages (undergraduate and postgraduate students ­– alongside senior academics managing centuries-old journals); Ethical, Sustainable, Global Responsibility. Supporting positive societal, economic and cultural impact of research, with a specific emphasis on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals; Cultural Change: an embedded, creative training and education strand, employing innovation expertise, a Certificate in Scholarly Communication (an additional extrinsic motivator) and periodic surveys to inform an understanding of the experience; Alignment: with the strategic goals of the University and with its graduate attributes, championed by the Dean of Research and supported by the Graduate Students’ Union. SOAPbox is a scholar-led, community-driven, inclusive publishing initiative which has embraced the spirit of ‘glocalisation’. It instills a life-time commitment to Open Science amongst its participants, changing the world, from one university out.

scholarly journals Scholarly Communication and Open Access in Psychology: Current Considerations for Researchers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bowering Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Specific Discipline ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Citation Metrics ◽  
Gold Open Access

Scholarly communication and open access practices in psychological science are rapidly evolving. However, most published works that focus on scholarly communication issues do not target the specific discipline, and instead take a more “one size fits all” approach. When it comes to scholarly communication, practices and traditions vary greatly across the disciplines. It is important to look at issues such as open access (of all types), reproducibility, research data management, citation metrics, the emergence of preprint options, the evolution of new peer review models, coauthorship conventions, and use of scholarly networking sites such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu from a disciplinary perspective. Important issues in scholarly publishing for psychology include uptake of authors’ use of open access megajournals, how open science is represented in psychology journals, challenges of interdisciplinarity, and how authors avail themselves of green and gold open access strategies. This overview presents a discipline-focused treatment of selected scholarly communication topics that will allow psychology researchers and others to get up to speed on this expansive topic. Further study into researcher behavior in terms of scholarly communication in psychology would create more understanding of existing culture as well as provide early career researchers with a more effective roadmap to the current landscape. As no other single work provides a study of scholarly communication and open access in psychology, this work aims to partially fill that niche.

scholarly journals Insights From Setting up the First Wave of a Qualitative Longitudinal Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692095405
Author(s):  
Mag. Dr. Veronika Wöhrer ◽  
MMag. Dr. Andrea Jesser ◽  
Barbara Mataloni ◽  
Andre Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Young People ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research And Teaching

In this paper we describe and reflect upon the process of setting up the first wave of a complex qualitative longitudinal study with young people in Vienna. We explain the project’s agenda, design, and organizational structure connecting experienced and early career researchers with master’s students. In particular, we describe the tools used to coordinate the research, the challenges and benefits of blending research and teaching, and the materials and strategies we employed to ensure data quality and self-reflexivity. We conclude with reflections upon ethical challenges associated with incorporating marginalized young people into the research within the context of school, especially concerning pseudonymization, informed consent, and hierarchical settings shaping the research.

Support early-career researchers for post-pandemic prospects

Nature ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 580 (7802) ◽  
pp. 185-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arild Husby ◽  
Gemma Modinos
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers
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