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Wiki Trans : une communauté de savoir sur la transidentité

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Auteur/Author : Bérengère Stassin

Cet article porte sur Wiki Trans, un site collaboratif créé par une femme transgenre pour permettre la mise en commun d’expériences et le partage d’informations liées aux aspects sociaux et médicaux de la transidentité et répondre aux besoins informationnels qu’elle suscite.

Le site vise à centraliser des informations dispersées au sein du web, à traduire en français des ressources anglophones et à vulgariser de l’information médicale et scientifique. Ce projet favorise l’émergence d’une communauté de savoir en ligne composée de personnes transgenres et cisgenres, de bénévoles et de médecins.

Une hybridation entre savoirs expérientiels et savoirs experts est alors observée.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/ctd.3723

The Pioneering Role of Sci in Post Publication Public Peer Review (P4R)

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Authors : Ahmad Yaman Abdin, Muhammad Jawad Nasim, Yannick Ney, Claus Jacob

Scientists observe, discover, justify and eventually share their findings with the scientific community. Dissemination is an integral aspect of scientific discovery, since discoveries which go unnoticed have no or little impact on science.

Today, peer review is part of this process of scientific dissemination as it contributes proactively to the quality of a scientific article. As the numbers of scientific journals and scientific articles published therein are increasing steadily, processes such as the single-blind or double-blind peer review are facing a near collapse situation.

In fact, these traditional forms of reviewing have reached their limits and, because of this, are also increasingly considered as unfair, sloppy, superficial and even biased. In this manuscript, we propose forms of post-publication public peer review (P4R) as valuable alternatives to the traditional blind peer review system.

We describe how the journal Sci has explored such an approach and provide first empirical evidence of the benefits and also challenges, such a P4R approach faces.

URL : The Pioneering Role of Sci in Post Publication Public Peer Review (P4R)

DOI : https://doi.org/10.3390/publications9010013

Collaborative Data Literacy Education for Research Labs: A Case Study at a Large Research University

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Authors : John Watts, Laura Sare, David E. Hubbard

Data literacy education for graduate students can take place in many contexts. One-shot instruction sessions and credit-bearing courses are a common mode of instruction for the graduate student audience, but both share limitations regarding best practices for adult learning theory.

This case study explores the benefits of data literacy education in a research lab setting and highlights the collaborations among data librarians, a liaison librarian, and research faculty that enable effective learning experiences in labs or other applied settings.

The authors share the design of the curriculum, facilitation of the instruction, and the assessment of student learning, as well as their approach to collaboration as an essential component of the project.

URL : Collaborative Data Literacy Education for Research Labs: A Case Study at a Large Research University

Original location : https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol12/iss3/7

Attracting new users or business as usual? A case study of converting academic subscription-based journals to open access

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Author : Lars Wenaas

This paper studies a selection of 11 Norwegian journals in the humanities and social sciences and their conversion from subscription to open access, a move heavily incentivized by governmental mandates and open access policies.

By investigating the journals’ visiting logs in the period 2014–2019, the study finds that a conversion to open access induces higher visiting numbers; all journals in the study had a significant increase, which can be attributed to the conversion.

Converting a journal had no spillover in terms of increased visits to previously published articles still behind the paywall in the same journals. Visits from previously subscribing Norwegian higher education institutions did not account for the increase in visits, indicating that the increase must be accounted for by visitors from other sectors.

The results could be relevant for policymakers concerning the effects of strict policies targeting economically vulnerable national journals, and could further inform journal owners and editors on the effects of converting to open access.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00126

Être chercheur, devenir expert ? L’économie morale du rapport à l’expertise dans un laboratoire de toxicologie

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Auteur/Author : David Demortain

Le rapport entre système de recherche et action publique s’est institutionnalisé ces dernières années, à travers un entrelacs de comités d’expertise, de groupes de travail ou de conseils scientifiques, souvent supervisés par des agences gouvernementales, qui permettent la mobilisation systématique de chercheurs pour la sécurité sanitaire.

Le système d’expertise ne peut toutefois collecter l’ensemble des connaissances scientifiques produites par les chercheurs, ne serait-ce que parce qu’une partie de cette profession considère que l’expertise ne fait pas partie de son métier.

Cet article cherche à comprendre comment et dans quelle mesure les chercheurs deviennent experts, à partir d’une analyse des activités des chercheurs d’un laboratoire de toxicologie, et des motifs et modalités variées d’engagement dans l’expertise parmi ceux-ci.

Il dégage trois économies morales distinctes du rapport à l’expertise, pour montrer que l’engagement dans l’expertise est lié à différentes manières de définir et valoriser le travail de recherche toxicologique.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/rac.19302

Managing an institutional repository workflow with GitLab and a folder-based deposit system

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Authors : Whitney R. Johnson-Freeman, Mark E. Phillips, Kristy K. Phillips

Institutional Repositories (IR) exist in a variety of configurations and in various states of development across the country. Each organization with an IR has a workflow that can range from explicitly documented and codified sets of software and human workflows, to ad hoc assortments of methods for working with faculty to acquire, process and load items into a repository.

The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has managed an IR called UNT Scholarly Works for the past decade but has until recently relied on ad hoc workflows. Over the past six months, we have worked to improve our processes in a way that is extensible and flexible while also providing a clear workflow for our staff to process submitted and harvested content.

Our approach makes use of GitLab and its associated tools to track and communicate priorities for a multi-user team processing resources. We paired this Web-based management with a folder-based system for moving the deposited resources through a sequential set of processes that are necessary to describe, upload, and preserve the resource.

This strategy can be used in a number of different applications and can serve as a set of building blocks that can be configured in different ways. This article will discuss which components of GitLab are used together as tools for tracking deposits from faculty as they move through different steps in the workflow.

Likewise, the folder-based workflow queue will be presented and described as implemented at UNT, and examples for how we have used it in different situations will be presented.

URL : https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15650

Implementing the Global University Publications Licence: a new open scholarship model for advocating change

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Authors : Jiafeng Zhou, Ke Wu, Neil Smyth

Universities want a voluntary, non-exclusive licence from authors to disseminate publications. This practitioner case study explores an innovative model to communicate and advance open and equitable scholarship through the implementation of the Global University Publications Licence at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

This article explains the licensing policy and key influences, including, the copyright law of the People’s Republic of China and the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

The University approved the Global University Publications Licence, with implementation from 1 August 2019. It is available in Chinese and English. Since implementation, the University has retained rights for 74% of research publications submitted. 100% of those publications are available through the University with a CC-BY licence and zero embargo.

The open scholarship model provides an equitable approach to versions and citation. The article concludes by suggesting university libraries can exploit copyright law in China to progress open scholarship strategies, including recognition of employers as authors of works, a priority right to the exploitation of works and an embargo protection of two years after the completion of the work.

The author’s final version of publications can be open, discoverable, cited and preserved through trusted universities with global reputations for high-quality research.

URL : Implementing the Global University Publications Licence: a new open scholarship model for advocating change

DOI : http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.531