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 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.

e-shape - A cloud-based contribution to Earth Observation

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (6) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Thierry Ranchin
Keyword(s):  
Public Investment ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Chemical And Biological Systems

Earth Observation (EO) is the collecting, analysing and presentation of information related to the Earth to improve understanding of our planet. The data that is gathered is usually centered on physical, chemical and biological systems that help researchers identify and understand changes in the natural and manmade environment. Observing Earth from a vantage point in and around space - often through satellites - enables scientists to access a bird's eye view of the planet, providing a unique perspective on a wide range of subjects, such as extreme weather events and their effect on the environment. Improved observations have come together with the explosion of modelling and cloud computing, which helps make better, and more sustainable, decisions. As technological capabilities have increased, so too has the focus on EO. Countries around the world are developing means of observing the Earth in an attempt to reap the related rewards, such as improved understanding, but also the creation of jobs and the achievement of various goals highlighted within international organisations, such as the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Indeed, the potential positive outcomes from sustained EO can hardly be overstated, as it permeates through into an extremely broad range of different areas that will touch and impact humans around the world either now or in the future. It is with this in mind that e-shape has been established. This is a flagship project of the European Commission that falls under the Horizon 2020 programme. It is a unique initiative that brings decades of public investment in EO and cloud capabilities together to form a range of services for decision-makers, members of the public, industry and researchers. With 55 partners from 17 countries, this project has far-reaching impacts.

scholarly journals Bioeconomy and Green Economy: European Strategies, Action Plans and Impact on Life Quality

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Socaciu
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Key Aspects

The review presents the definitions, the main concepts and vision for Bioeconomy versus Green economy. The key aspects which are discussed refers to European strategy and action plans (1), Bioeconomy and agriculture orientation (2), Biorefinery for a better life quality (3) and involvement of education, research and innovation for the progress of Bioeconomy (4). There are described the main challenges, requirements, aims related to the integration of bioeconomy in different economic sectors, the strategic plans and activities at global level  with specific consideration for European member states. Innovation and the need of an integrative knowledge, creating translational bridges and covering gaps by sustainable interdisciplinary research and technology development are  also discussed. Considering the vital links betweeen research - innovation and technlogy transfer, for the bioeconomy progress, relevant examples will be presented, related to  European programs (2014-2020), e.g. Horizon 2020,  European Innovation partnership (EIP) and Partnerships Public-Private (PPP). The role of universities, as best providers of education and research will be underlined with a strong focus on the need to develop the entrepreunership culture and their role as knowledge and innovation disseminator, filling the gap research­-invention­­-innovation.

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 Metajournals. A federalist proposal for scholarly communication and data aggregation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Chiara Pievatolo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Open Forest ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Eu

While the EU is building an open access infrastructure of archives (e.g. Openaire) and it is trying to implement it in the Horizon 2020 program, the gap between the tools and the human beings – researchers, citizen scientists, students, ordinary people – is still wide. The necessity to dictate open access publishing as a mandate for the EU funded research – ten years after the BOAI - is an obvious symptom of it: there is a chasm between the net and the public use of reason. To escalate the advancement and the reuse of research, we should federate the multitude of already existing open access journals in federal open overlay journals that receive their contents from the member journals and boost it with their aggregation power and their semantic web tools. The article contains both the theoretical basis and the guidelines for a project whose goals are: 1. making open access journals visible, highly cited and powerful, by federating them into wide disciplinary overlay journals; 2. avoiding the traps of the “authors pay” open access business model, by exploiting one of the virtue of federalism: the federate journals can remain little and affordable, if they gain visibility from the power of the federal overlay journal aggregating them; 3. enriching the overlay journals both through semantic annotation tools and by means of open platforms dedicated to host ex post peer review and experts comments; 4. making the selection and evaluation processes and their resulting data as much as possible public and open, to avoid the pitfalls (e. g, the serials price crisis) experienced by the closed access publishing model. It is about time to free academic publishing from its expensive walled gardens and to put to test the tools that can help us to transform it in one open forest, with one hundred flowers – and one hundred trailblazers.

scholarly journals “HORIZON 2020”: ENHANCEMENT OF INNOVATIVENESS IN UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetyana Marchenko
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Framework Programme ◽  
Practical Result ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
The Eu

The aim of the article is to study some aspects of the participation of Ukraine in the European innovation programmes, particularly in the Framework programme for research and technological development and to consider factors that contribute to the attractiveness of these programmes for Ukraine and possible risks associated with the implementation of EU policies in the field of science in Ukrainian reality. The methodological basis of research constitute the historical and logical and systematic approaches in the study of patterns of innovation development in the context of economic growth and increase competitiveness. Actuality of this theme is explained by the creation of the global information society, the incipience of the new technological production method and by wide development of innovative cooperation between countries. Such collaboration, as a rule, promotes comprehensive expansion of trade, mutual investing in national production complexes, wide integration. The results of the analysis. Basic features, components and the role of European framework programme for research and innovation “Horizon 2020” for European Research Area’s creating were analyzed. Ukraine’s involvement in the process of international scientific and technical integration and economic component of Ukraine's participation in European framework programme for research and innovation “Horizon 2020” were investigated. The main priorities of national innovation policy were defined and measures concerning Ukraine’s innovative potential activation and improvement through participation in European innovative programmes were proposed. International innovative programs will promote adaptation of the country to the EU norms and standards, increase mobility of Ukrainian experts, researchers and educators in the European space, speed up European integration. Full participation in the Framework Programme “Horizon 2020” projects would attract countries to the advanced technology of its scientific potential, additional financing of the Ukrainian research organizations and institutions involved in joint projects. Scientific novelty of the research results consists of predicting a possible increase innovation potential of the economy of Ukraine based on the study of international innovation programmes as a factor of integration of Ukraine into the EU. The practical significance of the results consists of importance of theoretical propositions, conclusions and recommendations for practical application of these results in the learning process, the development and improvement of certain legislative acts of Ukraine and to justify special measures for government agencies to address the problems associated with the innovative development of Ukraine. Conclusions and directions of further researches. The practical result of international cooperation Ukraine should be achievement standards of innovative progress inherent in the developed world. These standards are primarily related to the rationalization of energy consumption and using natural resources, technology standards, legal protection of intellectual property, international quality standards, certification of products and services. With appropriate adaptation in Ukraine, it is possible to use the EU strategic instruments, in particular the "open method of coordination", which will enable Ukraine to study the experience of other countries, as well as exchange of innovative practices. In the future, it is worth exploring the ways of adaptation and implementation of EU strategic tools in Ukraine, which will provide the basis for the implementation of the programme initiatives of the “Europe 2020” Strategy.

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