The DocMaps Framework for representing assertions on research products in an extensible, machine-readable, and discoverable format

Peer review of a research product varies widely depending on the publishers and platforms involved in the process. As scholarly publishing is disrupted by new innovations, peer review processes become more heterogeneous, placing an increasing burden on the researcher in understanding how they can communicate their scholarship. New ways to model such processes, and increase transparency, trust, and experimentation in scholarly publishing are needed. Many are emerging but can tend to focus on the needs of creators, and not those of readers, funders, and the whole scholarly publishing ecosystem. They may not place focus on representing editorial practices in ways that can be reliably aggregated, surfaced, and queried; are often limited to traditional peer review processes; and cannot capture the full range of editorial practices and events needed to accommodate alternative publication, review, and curation models. To support researchers in a world of experimentation in scholarly publishing, we propose a machine-readable, extensible, and discoverable framework for representing and surfacing review and editorial processes. Working with a Technical Committee composed of interested parties by employing a modified Delphi Method, we developed initial guiding principles and proposals towards an object-level editorial metadata framework compatible with a broad range of possible futures for scholarly publishing. We present the results of this process with a proposal and example use cases for DocMaps, a framework for representing object-level assertions.

Universalidade e democracia: esteios das ciências contra o charlatanismo

Um novo paradigma do conhecimento parece surgir da hecatombe virótica e política que atinge principalmente as Américas para talvez enterrar de vez ou, pelo menos, inativar temporariamente a virulência do anterior, que deu abrigo a teorias como a da Escolha Racional, que é o paradigma neoliberal. Contra ele, ressurge a tese dos sistemas universais de saúde enquanto estruturas de Estado, mantidas e controladas pelo próprio Estado Ampliado, no sentido gramsciano. O editorial do volume 11, ano 2021, segundo ano da pandemia de COVID-19 do século XXI, tem por objetivo apresentar de forma reflexiva dez artigos do número 1, com temas que abordam diretamente ou indiretamente a pandemia, seus desdobramentos, tomando como valores orientadores das práticas editoriais, de pesquisa e cuidado em saúde, a justiça e democracia, mais que conceitos, significantes para o pensamento e a ação. ABSTRACTA new paradigm of knowledge seems to emerge from the viral and political hecatomb that affects mainly the Americas to perhaps bury forever or at least temporarily inactivate the virulence of the previous one, which gave shelter to theories such as Rational Choice, which is the neoliberal paradigm. Against him, the thesis of universal health systems resurfaces as State structures, maintained and controlled by the Extended State itself, in the Gramscian sense. The editorial of the volume 11, 2021, second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, of the 21st century, aims to reflectively present ten articles published on number 1 with themes that directly or indirectly address the pandemic, its consequences, taking as guiding values of editorial practices, research and health care, justice and democracy, more than concepts, significant for thought and action.Keywords: COVID-19; Pandemic; Sciences; Universality; Democracy; Health. RESUMENUn nuevo paradigma de conocimiento parece emerger de la hecatombe viral y política que afecta principalmente a las Américas para quizás enterrar definitivamente o al menos inactivar temporalmente la virulencia del anterior, que dio cobijo a teorías como la Elección Racional, que es el paradigma neoliberal. Frente a él, la tesis de los sistemas de salud universales resurge como estructuras estatales, mantenidas y controladas por el propio Estado Extendido, en el sentido gramciano. El editorial del volumen 11, año 2021, segundo año de la pandemia COVID-19, del siglo XXI, tiene como objetivo presentar de manera reflexiva diez artículos del número 1, con temas que aborden directa o indirectamente la pandemia, sus consecuencias, tomando como rector valores de las prácticas editoriales, la investigación y la salud, la justicia y la democracia, más que conceptos, significativos para el pensamiento y la acción.Palabras clave: COVID-19; Pandemia; Ciencias; Universalidad; Democracia; Salud.

Making Sense of the World We Live In Editorial Practices and Picturing Science in LIFE Magazine: 1936–1955

Making Sense of the World We Live In examines how editorial practices communicated different images of science to the readers of LIFE magazine between 1936 and 1955. Selected essays published between 1936–1955 in various sections of LIFE, as well as the thirteen issues series, “The World We Live In” published between 1952–1954 serve as the primary sources for this thesis. An introduction, literature survey, and methodology section establish the historical context of science communication and LIFE magazine. An appendix and list of illustrations provide quantitative data and selected images used in this thesis. Three analysis chapters discuss how editorial practices including layout, colour, the role of the photographer, and section placement in LIFE produced different stories of science for specific audiences. These chapters also consider how the story of science was integrated by editors into larger political narratives of American hegemony published in the magazine.

Making Sense of the World We Live In Editorial Practices and Picturing Science in LIFE Magazine: 1936–1955

Making Sense of the World We Live In examines how editorial practices communicated different images of science to the readers of LIFE magazine between 1936 and 1955. Selected essays published between 1936–1955 in various sections of LIFE, as well as the thirteen issues series, “The World We Live In” published between 1952–1954 serve as the primary sources for this thesis. An introduction, literature survey, and methodology section establish the historical context of science communication and LIFE magazine. An appendix and list of illustrations provide quantitative data and selected images used in this thesis. Three analysis chapters discuss how editorial practices including layout, colour, the role of the photographer, and section placement in LIFE produced different stories of science for specific audiences. These chapters also consider how the story of science was integrated by editors into larger political narratives of American hegemony published in the magazine.