scholarly journals Innovations in Accessible Scholarly Communication

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Specific Barriers

What does it mean to make scholarly communications accessible to people with disabilities and those who face other specific barriers to access? This talk gives an overview of recent work to support equitable access across the lifecycle of scholarly communication, offering useful updates and strategies for scholars, editors, publishers, librarians, and other professionals. Participants will understand what accessibility means today and how they can reduce barriers in their work by following accessibility standards and best practices, and learning from leading examples in the field.

scholarly journals Standards, Norms, and Best Practices Workgroup Report

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Gluck ◽  
Adrian K. Ho ◽  
Martin R. Kalfatovic ◽  
David Mellor ◽  
Louise Page ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Incentive Systems ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Exit Strategies ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

What standards, norms, best practices, exit strategies, and incentive systems does the world of scholarly communications need? What is the future ideal? What will it take (including studies or pilots) to develop a better understanding of how the scholarly communication system works now? This workgroup will also necessarily touch on norms and definitions, so will include discussions as warranted about open and impact spectrums as covered in OSI2016.

scholarly journals Transforming Cultural Ideas of Aging and Disability to Improve Policy and Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 645-645
Author(s):  
Anne Ordway
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Quality Of Health Care ◽  
Real World ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Full Participation

Abstract Aging and disability are normative processes that extend across the lifespan. However, ageism and ableism are incorporated into many of our practices, programs, and policies—devaluing the lives of older adults and people aging with disabilities and ultimately preventing their full participation in society. Ageism and ableism are closely connected. For example, both systems identify impairment as an individual and social liability. As recent studies have demonstrated, this has real world implications for the quantity and quality of health care requested, delivered, and received by both older adults and people with disabilities. In this session, we discuss the connections between these two forms of oppression and present recent work by researchers in both fields and the FrameWorks Institute that shows how to transform our cultural ideas of aging and disability and development more inclusive policies and services. Part of a symposium sponsored by the Lifelong Disabilities Interest Group.

Citation Essentials in Scholarly Communication

2019 ◽  
pp. 846-853
Author(s):  
S. Sudarshan Rao
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Standard Methods ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Systems Software ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Correct Form ◽  
Style Manual

This Chapter defines Citations, Citation Standards/Style Manuals and Scholarly Communication. It explains the importance of Scholarly Communication, and use of Citations in meeting the objectives of Scholarly Communication, especially in avoiding the accidental danger of plagiarism. It also explains how Bibliographic Management Systems (software)—both open / free and proprietary—have been helpful to the academics and researchers in providing standard methods of citations that is, both in-text citations and references list at the end of the text of the document while writing documents. It concludes by emphasizing the need for use of standard citation or style manual for proper dissemination of scholarly communications. There is a need for gaining adequate knowledge on how to cite and provide references in correct form in the publications to make them quality and scholarly works and also to avoid from the accidental danger of plagiarism.

Telework and People with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1119-1137
Author(s):  
Rachelle Bosua ◽  
Marianne Gloet
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Management Knowledge ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
It Support ◽  
Management Issues

People with disabilities face unique challenges to access work and participate in a work culture and environment. The increasing uptake of telework is promising from a digital inclusion perspective for people with disabilities. This qualitative study explored barriers and problems of including people with disabilities through telework in Australia. The study focused on management and worker perspectives and findings indicate that both parties face unique challenges to accommodate and include people with disabilities in telework arrangements. Worker barriers to access telework relate to management attitudes, physical and infrastructure problems, social isolation misconceptions, lack of management trust, insufficient telework opportunities and inadequate management knowledge of IT support and reasonable adjustment for people with disabilities. Management issues involve cultural intolerance towards diversity and disability in general, as well as a lack of policies and processes that create a supportive environment for people with disabilities who wish to telework.

scholarly journals Preprints & Pandemics: Interventions into the Dynamic Scholarly System of Scholarly Communication

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micah Altman ◽  
Philip N. Cohen ◽  
Jessica Polka
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
History Of ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic is an exemplar of how scholarly communication can change in response to external shocks, even as the scholarly knowledge ecosystem is evolving rapidly, and many argue that swift and fundamental interventions are needed. However, it is much easier to identify ongoing changes and emerging interventions than to understand their immediate and long term impacts. This is illustrated by comparing the approaches applied by the scientific community to understand public health risks and interventions with those applied by the scholarly communications community to the science of COVID-19. There are substantial disagreements over the short- and long- term benefits of most proposed approaches to changing the practice of science communication, and the lack of systematic, empirically-based research in this area makes these controversies difficult to resolve. We argue that the methodology of analysis and intervention developed within public health can be usefully applied to the science-of-science. Starting with the history of DDT application, we illustrate four ways complex human systems threaten reliable predictions and blunt ad-hoc interventions. We then show how these four threats apply lead to the last major intervention in scholarly publication -- the article publishing charge based open access model -- to yield surprising results. Finally, we outline how these four threats may affect the impact of preprint initiatives, and we identify approaches drawn from public health to mitigate these threats.

scholarly journals Policy Implementation Challenges and Barriers to Access Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Faced By People With Disabilities: An Intersectional Analysis of Policy Actors’ Perspectives in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muriel Mac-Seing ◽  
Emmanuel Ochola ◽  
Martin Ogwang ◽  
Kate Zinszer ◽  
Christina Zarowsky
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Health Service Provision ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Barriers To Access

Background: Emerging from a 20-year armed conflict, Uganda adopted several laws and policies to protect the rights of people with disabilities, including their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) rights. However, the SRH rights of people with disabilities continue to be infringed in Uganda. We explored policy actors’ perceptions of existing pro-disability legislation and policy implementation, their perceptions of potential barriers experienced by people with disabilities in accessing and using SRH services in post-conflict Northern Uganda, and their recommendations on how to redress these inequities. Methods: Through an intersectionality-informed approach, we conducted and thematically analysed 13 in-depth semi-structured interviews with macro level policy actors (national policy-makers and international and national organisations); seven focus groups (FGs) at meso level with 68 health service providers and representatives of disabled people’s organisations (DPOs); and a two-day participatory workshop on disability-sensitive health service provision for 34 healthcare providers. Results: We identified four main themes: (1) legislation and policy implementation was fraught with numerous technical and financial challenges, coupled with lack of prioritisation of disability issues; (2) people with disabilities experienced multiple physical, attitudinal, communication, and structural barriers to access and use SRH services; (3) the conflict was perceived to have persisting impacts on the access to services; and (4) policy actors recommended concrete solutions to reduce health inequities faced by people with disabilities. Conclusion: This study provides substantial evidence of the multilayered disadvantages people with disabilities face when using SRH services and the difficulty of implementing disability-focused policy in Uganda. Informed by an intersectionality approach, policy actors were able to identify concrete solutions and recommendations beyond the identification of problems. These recommendations can be acted upon in a practical road map to remove different types of barriers in the access to SRH services by people with disabilities, irrespective of their geographic location in Uganda.

scholarly journals Acesso e permanência de pessoas com deficiência no mercado de trabalho: a alternativa do emprego apoiado/Access and permanence of people with disabilities in the labor market: the alternative of supported employment

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-276
Author(s):  
Maryana Gonçalves Marinho ◽  
Taísa Gomes Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Supported Employment ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
Professional Qualification ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
Specialized Institutions ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Training

ResumoIntrodução: O estudo tem como foco temático o trabalho na vida de pessoas com deficiência, de acordo com leis que asseguram o direito ao trabalho em condições justas e favoráveis. Vários estudos têm considerado as barreiras e os facilitadores do acesso e permanência de pessoas com deficiência no mercado de trabalho, bem como, o contraste da realidade com o que é previsto na legislação. Objetivo: Identificar quais são as facilidades e barreiras no acesso e permanência no mercado de trabalho e discutir o emprego apoiado como estratégia de acompanhamento de pessoas com deficiência no Brasil. Metodologia: Trata-se de uma abordagem que preconiza a Prática Baseada em Evidências, sendo esta uma revisão integrativa da literatura de 2008 a 2015, que se refere a artigos brasileiros publicados em inglês, português e espanhol. Resultados/Discussão: Diversos fatores facilitam o ingresso e permanência de pessoas com deficiência no mercado de trabalho, assim como muitos aspectos são considerados barreiras para o mesmo. Os facilitadores foram: oficinas de preparação e capacitação para o trabalho; parceria entre empresas e instituições especializadas; ações de sensibilização nas empresas; o sentido do trabalho na vida das pessoas com deficiências. As barreiras estavam relacionadas com: ineficácia no cumprimento da lei; baixo nível de escolaridade, qualificação profissional, salários; economia do país; estigma; esfera familiar; seletividade da deficiência; gênero; inadequação da estrutura física de empresas. Conclusões: Os dados mostraram que o Emprego Apoiado é uma alternativa para contribuir com os aspectos encontrados como facilitadores deste processo, bem como para ultrapassar os obstáculos também obtidos. Abstract Introduction: The study focuses on work in the lives of people with disabilities, according to laws that ensure the right to work on fair and favorable terms. Several studies have considered the barriers and facilitators of the access and permanence of people with disabilities in the labor market, as well as the contrast of reality with what is foreseen in the legislation. Objective: To identify the facilities and barriers to access and permanence in the labor market and to discuss supported employment as a strategy to accompany people with disabilities in Brazil. Methodology: This is an approach based on Evidence-Based Practice, which is an integrative review of the literature from 2008 to 2015, which refers to Brazilian articles published in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Results / Discussion: Several factors facilitate the entry and permanence of people with disabilities in the labor market, as many aspects are considered barriers to it. The facilitators were: workshops for preparation and training for work; partnership between companies and specialized institutions; awareness actions in companies; the meaning of work in the lives of people with disabilities. The barriers were related to: ineffectiveness in complying with the law; low level of education, professional qualification, salaries; economy of the country; stigma; family sphere; disability selectivity; genre; inadequacy of the physical structure of companies. Conclusions: The data showed that Supported Employment is an alternative to contribute to the aspects found as facilitators of this process, as well as to overcome the obstacles also obtained.Keywords: Person with Disabilities, Job, Supported Employment.

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