Positioning And Power In Academic Publishing Players Agents And Agendas

Author : F. Loizides,B. Schmidt
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614996491

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Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and Agendas by F. Loizides,B. Schmidt Pdf

The field of electronic publishing has grown exponentially in the last two decades, but we are still in the middle of this digital transformation. With technologies coming and going for all kinds of reasons, the distribution of economic, technological and discursive power continues to be negotiated. This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub), held in Göttingen, Germany, in June 2016. This year’s conference explores issues of positioning and power in academic publishing, and it brings together world leading stakeholders such as academics, practitioners, policymakers, students and entrepreneurs from a wide variety of fields to exchange information and discuss the advent of innovations in the areas of electronic publishing, as well as reflect on the development in the field over the last 20 years. Topics covered in the papers include how to maintain the quality of electronic publications, modeling processes and the increasingly prevalent issue of open access, as well as new systems, database repositories and datasets. This overview of the field will be of interest to all those who work in or make use of electronic publishing.

Author : Michael C. Kruk,Lauren A. Jackson,Kevin A. Butler,Tiffany C. Vance,Nazila Merati
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832515235

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Democratizing data: Environmental data access and its future by Michael C. Kruk,Lauren A. Jackson,Kevin A. Butler,Tiffany C. Vance,Nazila Merati Pdf

Author : L. Chan,F. Loizides
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781614997696

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Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices by L. Chan,F. Loizides Pdf

Twenty-one years ago, the term ‘electronic publishing’ promised all manner of potential that the Web and network technologies could bring to scholarly communication, scientific research and technical innovation. Over the last two decades, tremendous developments have indeed taken place across all of these domains. One of the most important of these has been Open Science; perhaps the most widely discussed topic in research communications today. This book presents the proceedings of Elpub 2017, the 21st edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in June 2017. Continuing the tradition of bringing together academics, publishers, lecturers, librarians, developers, entrepreneurs, users and all other stakeholders interested in the issues surrounding electronic publishing, this edition of the conference focuses on Open Science, and the 27 research and practitioner papers and 1 poster included here reflect the results and ideas of researchers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds from all around the world with regard to this important subject. Intended to generate discussion and debate on the potential and limitations of openness, the book addresses the current challenges and opportunities in the ecosystem of Open Science, and explores how to move forward in developing an inclusive system that will work for a much broader range of participants. It will be of interest to all those concerned with electronic publishing, and Open Science in particular.

Author : Matthew L. Smith,Ruhiya Kristine Seward
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262539111

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Making Open Development Inclusive by Matthew L. Smith,Ruhiya Kristine Seward Pdf

Drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyses of how open development has played out in practice. A decade ago, a significant trend toward openness emerged in international development. “Open development” can describe initiatives as disparate as open government, open health data, open science, open education, and open innovation. The theory was that open systems related to data, science, and innovation would enable more inclusive processes of human development. This volume, drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyzes how open development has played out in practice Focusing on development practices in the Global South, the contributors explore the crucial questions of who is allowed to participate when an initiative is “open” and who benefits—or not—from them, finding that processes characterized as open can sometimes be exclusionary in their implementation. Examining a wide range of cases, they consider the governance of open development ecosystems and the implementation of a variety of applications, including open educational resources, collaborative science, and the uses of crowdsourcing. Contributors Denisse Albornoz, Chris Armstrong, Savita Bailur, Roxana Barrantes, Carla Bonina, Michael Cañares, Leslie Chan, Laura Czerniewicz, Jeremy de Beer, Stefano De Sabbata, Shirin Elahi, Alison Gillwald, Mark Graham, Rebecca Hillyer, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Dick Kawooya, Erika Kramer-Mbula, Paulo Matos, Caroline Ncube, Chidi Oguamanam, Angela Okune, Alejandro Posada, Nagla Rizk, Isaac Rutenberg, Tobias Schonwetter, Fabrizio Scrollini, Ruhiya Kristine Seward, Raed Sharif, Matthew Smith, William Randall Spence, Henry Trotter, François van Schalkwyk, Sonal Zavaeri

Author : Koen H. Van Dam,Nicolas Verstaevel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030945480

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Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XXII by Koen H. Van Dam,Nicolas Verstaevel Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2021, held in May 2021 as part of AAMAS 2021. The conference was held virtually due to COVID 19 pandemic. The 14 revised full papers included in this volume were carefully selected from 23 submissions. The workshop focused on finding efficient solutions to model complex social systems, in such areas as economics, management, organizational and social sciences in general. In all these areas, agent theories, metaphors, models, analysis, experimental designs, empirical studies, and methodological principles, all converge into simulation as a way of achieving explanations and predictions, exploration and testing of hypotheses, better designs and systems and providing decision-support in a wide range of applications.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Research Data and Information,Committee on Toward an Open Science Enterprise
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309476249

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Open Science by Design by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Research Data and Information,Committee on Toward an Open Science Enterprise Pdf

Openness and sharing of information are fundamental to the progress of science and to the effective functioning of the research enterprise. The advent of scientific journals in the 17th century helped power the Scientific Revolution by allowing researchers to communicate across time and space, using the technologies of that era to generate reliable knowledge more quickly and efficiently. Harnessing today's stunning, ongoing advances in information technologies, the global research enterprise and its stakeholders are moving toward a new open science ecosystem. Open science aims to ensure the free availability and usability of scholarly publications, the data that result from scholarly research, and the methodologies, including code or algorithms, that were used to generate those data. Open Science by Design is aimed at overcoming barriers and moving toward open science as the default approach across the research enterprise. This report explores specific examples of open science and discusses a range of challenges, focusing on stakeholder perspectives. It is meant to provide guidance to the research enterprise and its stakeholders as they build strategies for achieving open science and take the next steps.

Author : Walkowski Niels-Oliver
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783957961600

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Beyond the Flow by Walkowski Niels-Oliver Pdf

In the wake of the so-called digital revolution numerous attempts have been made to rethink and redesign what scholarly publications can or should be. Beyond the Flow examines the technologies as well as narratives driving this unfolding transformation. However, facing challenges such as the serial crisis, knowledge burying or sudoku research the discourses and practices of scholarly publishing today are mainly shaped by confusion, heterogeneity and uncertainty. By critically interrogating the current state of digital publishing in academia the book asks for how a sustainable post-digital publishing ecology can be imagined.

Author : Martin Paul Eve,Jonathan Gray
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262362863

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Reassembling Scholarly Communications by Martin Paul Eve,Jonathan Gray Pdf

A range of perspectives on the complex political, philosophical, and pragmatic implications of opening research and scholarship through digital technologies. The Open Access Movement proposes to remove price and permission barriers for accessing peer-reviewed research work--to use the power of the internet to duplicate material at an infinitesimal cost-per-copy. In this volume, contributors show that open access does not exist in a technological vacuum; there are complex political, philosophical, and pragmatic implications for opening research through digital technologies. The contributors examine open access across spans of colonial legacies, knowledge frameworks, publics and politics, archives and digital preservation, infrastructures and platforms, and global communities.

Author : Emilio Zagheni,Stevie Chancellor
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889639113

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Workshop Proceedings of the 13th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media by Emilio Zagheni,Stevie Chancellor Pdf

Author : Nada Lavrač,Vid Podpečan,Marko Robnik-Šikonja
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030688172

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Representation Learning by Nada Lavrač,Vid Podpečan,Marko Robnik-Šikonja Pdf

This monograph addresses advances in representation learning, a cutting-edge research area of machine learning. Representation learning refers to modern data transformation techniques that convert data of different modalities and complexity, including texts, graphs, and relations, into compact tabular representations, which effectively capture their semantic properties and relations. The monograph focuses on (i) propositionalization approaches, established in relational learning and inductive logic programming, and (ii) embedding approaches, which have gained popularity with recent advances in deep learning. The authors establish a unifying perspective on representation learning techniques developed in these various areas of modern data science, enabling the reader to understand the common underlying principles and to gain insight using selected examples and sample Python code. The monograph should be of interest to a wide audience, ranging from data scientists, machine learning researchers and students to developers, software engineers and industrial researchers interested in hands-on AI solutions.

Author : Sören Auer,Maria-Esther Vidal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030060169

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Data Integration in the Life Sciences by Sören Auer,Maria-Esther Vidal Pdf

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2018, held in Hannover, Germany, in November 2018. The 5 full, 8 short, 3 poster and 4 demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: big biomedical data integration and management; data exploration in the life sciences; biomedical data analytics; and big biomedical applications.

Author : André Britto,Karina Valdivia Delgado
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030917029

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Intelligent Systems by André Britto,Karina Valdivia Delgado Pdf

The two-volume set LNAI 13073 and 13074 constitutes the proceedings of the 10th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2021, held in São Paolo, Brazil, in November-December 2021. The total of 77 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 192 submissions.The contributions are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, Planning and Reinforcement Learning; Evolutionary Computation, Metaheuristics, Constrains and Search, Combinatorial and Numerical Optimization, Knowledge Representation, Logic and Fuzzy Systems; Machine Learning and Data Mining. Part II: Multidisciplinary Artificial and Computational Intelligence and Applications; Neural Networks, Deep Learning and Computer Vision; Text Mining and Natural Language Processing. Due to the COVID-2019 pandemic, BRACIS 2021 was held as a virtual event.

Author : Nathan Carter
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780429675683

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Data Science for Mathematicians by Nathan Carter Pdf

Mathematicians have skills that, if deepened in the right ways, would enable them to use data to answer questions important to them and others, and report those answers in compelling ways. Data science combines parts of mathematics, statistics, computer science. Gaining such power and the ability to teach has reinvigorated the careers of mathematicians. This handbook will assist mathematicians to better understand the opportunities presented by data science. As it applies to the curriculum, research, and career opportunities, data science is a fast-growing field. Contributors from both academics and industry present their views on these opportunities and how to advantage them.

Author : Alvin Hutchinson
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780081020340

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Science Libraries in the Self Service Age by Alvin Hutchinson Pdf

Science Libraries in the Self Service Age: Developing New Services, Targeting New Users suggests ways in which libraries can remain relevant to their institution. This book describes the myriad of new services and user communities which science librarians have recently incorporated into their routines. Where applicable, the book focuses on both researcher needs and the simple economics that emphasize the need for new service development. Science librarians will have to adapt to changing behaviors and needs if they want to remain a part of their organization’s future. As this trend has hastened science librarians to develop new services, many of them aimed at audiences or user groups which had not typically used the library, this book provides timely tactics on which to build a cohesive plan. Provides a list of practical, targeted services which science librarians can implement Presents unified topics previously only dealt with separately (data management services, scholarly communication, digital preservation, etc.) Considers economic and resource issues in developing new services Written by an experienced librarian at a global institution

Author : Stephen M. Kosslyn,Ben Nelson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262536196

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Building the Intentional University by Stephen M. Kosslyn,Ben Nelson Pdf

How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.