scholarly journals The big leap: How to move from what is agreed and done to what needs to happen

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-318
Author(s):  
Eeva Furman
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
The World ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Publishing Community

In this article, I tell about the key findings and action points from the Global sustainable development report 2019 – Future is Now (GSDR2019) - and raise, based on the report, messages and recommendations for the academic publishing community for consideration and action. The Agenda2030 for sustainable development was signed by all UN member countries in 2015. It is an ambitious political framework to transform the world into a safe and just place. Based on the GSDR2019, only little progress had taken place until 2019. To speed up the progress in a way that makes durable changes towards sustainable development, there is a need to identify the interlinkages between the various goals and targets and push transformation in six key societal systems side by side. To make this happen, four types of levers need to work in an integrated manner. To ensure this, universal science capacity is required, with an emphasis on sustainability science. The academic publishers play an important role here. Open access, searchable databases and syntheses are highly needed.

scholarly journals Can We Interest You?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Strong-Wilson ◽  
Mindy Carter ◽  
Jérôme St-Amand ◽  
Sylvie Wald
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Academic Journal ◽  
Publishing World ◽  
The World

Since it was founded in 1966, the McGill Journal of Education has been a bilingual peerreviewed, generalist academic journal open to a broad range of topics and concerns related to education. It supports the open access to information movement that is transforming the academic publishing world and the digital technology making it possible for knowledge produced by publicly funded scholars to be widely and easily available. This article reflects on its most significant changes and challenges as a bilingual generalist, open access journal with close ties to McGill, Québec, Canada, and, increasingly, the world writ large.Keywords Education; Generalist journal; McGill; Open accessRésuméDepuis sa fondation en 1966, la Revue des sciences de l’éducation de McGill est un journal académique généraliste, bilingue, évalué par les pairs et ouvert à un large éventail de sujets et de préoccupations relatifs à l’éducation. Il appuie à la fois le mouvement de libre accès à l’information qui est en train de transformer le monde de l’édition académique et les technologies numériques qui assurent une vaste diffusion etun accès facile au savoir généré par des chercheurs financés par l’État. Cet article se penche sur les changements et les défis les plus significatifs auxquels la revue a fait face en tant que publication en libre accès bilingue, généraliste et étroitement liée à l’Université McGill, au Québec, au Canada et, de plus en plus, au monde entier.

scholarly journals Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey: Exploring Authors Views of Taylor & Francis and Routledge Authors Victoria Babbit

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Babbit
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Publishing Community ◽  
Insight Into

See video of the presentation.In late 2012 and the early part of 2013, Taylor & Francis conducted an author survey to investigate views on Open Access, peer review, re-use, metrics and licensing.  The survey drew responses from over 14 700 authors and has provided insight into authors’ attitudes towards publishing, access and re-use in this changing publishing climate.  Greater interest in licensing and re-use from authors, learned societies and editors derives, in part, from the establishment of institutional and funder OA publication mandates.  While there appears to be growing support for the CC-BY license from certain sectors of the academic publishing community, the Taylor & Francis survey found that there is some concern about the wholesale application of CC-BY licenses and the types of re-use this license permits.  This presentation will focus on the survey findings regarding re-use and licensing and explore some of the areas of concern voiced by our authors.

scholarly journals Plan S, Open Access and the potential roles for STS research

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Elena Šimukovič
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Framework Programme ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Development Goals

The year 2020 plays a highly symbolic role in the world of academic publishing. As the beginning of a new decade, it featured prominently in various research programmes such as “Horizon 2020”, the framework programme for research and innovation of the European Commission, as well as in numerous roadmaps and development goals in various institutions across the globe. Yet, in the recent past, it has also become a target year in many strategic plans for shifting the business of academic publishing from the prevailing journal subscription model towards full and immediate Open Access.

scholarly journals Good Waqf Governance and its Contribution in Sustainable Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Saripah Abdul Latif ◽  
Nik Muniyati Nik Din ◽  
Zaiton Mustapha
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
The World ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Open Access Article

Waqf is an Islamic charity institution which should be able to act as the catalyst for sustainable development, if the institution is systematically and optimally implemented. However, a substantial proportion of total waqf is still lying dormant across the world. The aim of the study is to obtain a better understanding in waqf governance issues. An exploratory research design is carried out on the authority which is responsible for the implementation of waqf governance in Kelantan, a state in Malaysia. The findings showed that legislation and inefficient management are among the possible impeding factors for good governance of waqf. Keywords: Waqf Governance, Sustainable Development eISSN 2514-7528 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRAcE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) andcE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v4i12.328

Social Design for Services Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie SARANTOU ◽  
Satu MIETTINEN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This paper addresses the fields of social and service design in development contexts, practice-based and constructive design research. A framework for social design for services will be explored through the survey of existing literature, specifically by drawing on eight doctoral theses that were produced by the World Design research group. The work of World Design researcher-designers was guided by a strong ethos of social and service design for development in marginalised communities. The paper also draws on a case study in Namibia and South Africa titled ‘My Dream World’. This case study presents a good example of how the social design for services framework functions in practice during experimentation and research in the field. The social design for services framework transfers the World Design group’s research results into practical action, providing a tool for the facilitation of design and research processes for sustainable development in marginal contexts.

The International Action “Open Access Week — 2009”

2009 ◽  
pp. 97-98
Author(s):  
Yulia V. Samodova
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
International Scientific Community ◽  
International Action ◽  
The World

Information on the coming Open Access Week which will be held from 19 to 23 October 2009. Interest in the results of scientific researches all over the world has led to consolidation of forces of the international scientific community and to expand the now-annual event from a single day to seven days.

The Meanings of Life and Value Priorities of the Post-Soviet Society in the Republic of Belarus

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Alexander N. Danilov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Value Priorities ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Republic

The article discusses the meanings of life and value priorities of the post- Soviet society. The author argues that, at present, there are symptoms of a global ideological crisis in the world, that the West does not have its own vision of where and how to move on and has no understanding of the future. Unfortunately, most of the post-Soviet countries do not have such vision as well. In these conditions, there are mistrust, confusion, paradoxical manifestation of human consciousness. The main meanings that determine our life-world are: the desire of citizens for social justice and social security, the desire to figure out and understand the basic values of modern society, how honestly and equally the authorities act toward their fellow citizens, and to what extent they reflect their interests. The meanings of life, which are the answers to the challenges of the time, are embodied in the cultural code of each nation, state. The growth points of new values, which will become the basis for the future sustainable development of a new civilization, have yet to be discovered in the systemic transformative changes of the culture. In this process, the emergence of a new system of values that governs human life is inevitable. However, modern technology brings new troubles to humans. It has provided wide opportunities for informational violence and public consciousness manipulation. Nowadays, the scenario that is implemented in Western consumer societies claims to be the dominant scenario. Meanwhile, today there is no country in the world that is a role model, there is no ideal that others would like to borrow. Most post-Soviet states failed to advance their societies to more decent levels of economic development, to meet the challenges of the modern information age, and to provide the population with new high living standards. Therefore, in conditions of growing confrontation, we should realistically understand the world and be ready to implement changes that will ensure sustainable development of the state and society without losing our national identity.

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