Scholarly Communication Librarian for Murray State University A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access in this blog post from the Scholarly Kitchen.

Innovative university libraries need to create suitable environments to provide training in media and information skills. The WebQuest is a teaching resource adaptable to any educational level which has proven its usefulness in the university context. A WebQuest designed to facilitate knowledge and awareness of the importance of media and…[Read more]

Las revistas científicas constituyen instancias que contribuyen a la institucionalización y consolidación de campos científicos particulares. El campo científico de los estudios sociales sobre el desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe cuenta con pocas publicaciones seriadas abiertas a la aceptación y el diálogo entre paradig…[Read more]

El campo científico de los estudios sociales acerca del desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe constituye un conjunto de conocimientos de carácter interdisciplinar. El campo tiene dos manifestaciones que se evidencian en su producción intelectual: 1) una visión conservadora socio – históricamente construida donde se legitiman los par…[Read more]

La historia de las asociaciones de bibliotecarios en Cuba ha sido poco abordada desde la literatura científica publicada. Se identifican escasas investigaciones con apuntes históricos sobre estas organizaciones, fundamentalmente localizadas en la capital. La búsqueda de referencias arrojó como resultado la inexistencia de investigaciones que sis…[Read more]

Seit fast vier Monaten herrscht Krieg in der Ukraine. Ein Blick in die Geschichte zeigt, warum Putin glaubt, dem Land die Eigenstaatlichkeit absprechen zu können – und weshalb sein Vorhaben nur scheitern kann.

The State Conference in Moscow, a one-time quasi-parliamentary assembly of over 2,500 delegates, was intended to help the Provisional Government resolve the military, political, and economic crises of the First World War and the Russian Revolution by building a broad public consensus. Due to the inadequate representation at the conference, its…[Read more]

Putin’s Russia suffered a bitter defeat in the first weeks of the Russian-Ukrainian war. However, the Kremlin will keep on trying to place Ukraine into its orbit, as well as project its influence further into the Western world. Unceasing and dynamic aggrandizement under strong leadership is one of the most functional approaches to statecraft in R…[Read more]

Las revistas científicas constituyen instancias que contribuyen a la institucionalización y consolidación de campos científicos particulares. El campo científico de los estudios sociales sobre el desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y
el Caribe cuenta con pocas publicaciones seriadas abiertas a la aceptación y el diálogo entre paradig…[Read more]

Me defino como un profesional dedicado a la actividad informativa, devenido en profesor y apasionado por la especialidad. Soy graduado de Ciencias de la Información desde el 2015 por la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (UCLV). Formé parte de la cuarta graduación de profesionales del centro país dentro del curso regular diurno…[Read more]

Russian military aggression and diplomatic pressure against Ukraine stems from the neo-imperial thinking of Russian elites and ordinary citizens. This thinking requires reproduction of expansionist patterns that once led Russia to its “historical greatness”: construction of a territorially large state, rich in resources and demographically div…[Read more]

Un libro de temas editoriales que viene a llenar todo el espacio vacío en esta materia a la luz de tiempos nuevos en los que, aunque la labor del editor sigue siendo la misma, surgen nuevas herramientas para clasificar la información y nuevos modos de socializar los resultados investigativos. Resultado de una investigación seria y minuciosa, el au…[Read more]

En Cuba han existido numerosas asociaciones para profesionales de bibliotecas, pero por su alcance y relevancia han destacado dos: la ACB (1948 – 1959) y la Ascubi (1986 – actualidad); ambas respondieron al nombre de Asociación Cubana de Bibliotecarios, pero con identificadores diferentes. A partir del análisis de los propósitos y activi…[Read more]

Outlined below is a bundle of nine policies and principles that are recommended for research funders and grantees. A wide-enactment of this bundle could lead to a quiet improvement in scientific communication. While well-intentioned, funding mandates that focus on making published articles (or their preprints) available as open access objects…[Read more]

There were six waves of regionalism in Western Europe and Russia: in the decades of the 1830s, the 1860s, the 1890s, the 1920s, the 1970s and the 1990s. Russian regions were not behind Western European ones but rather went through the same stages of development at the same time or sometimes even earlier, until after the Stalin era, when they did…[Read more]

The article uses Eric Voegelin’s ontology to address domestic processes in contemporary Ukraine. It explains how interpretations of experiences of history and transcendence evoke political order and justice. It also outlines the nature of political symbols deriving from these experiences. The article argues that Ukraine’s social architecture is…[Read more]

The article offers a detailed analysis of the debates at the All-Russian Democratic Conference and in the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic (the Pre-Parliament), which followed the proclamation of the republic on September 1, 1917, and predated the Bolshevik-led insurgency on October 25. The two assemblies were supposed to help resolve…[Read more]

In a talk given during London Open Research Week 2021, Arthur J. Boston, the Scholarly Communication Librarian at Murray State University, described parallels between the music industry and academic publishing, especially as it relates to open science and early career researchers. Below, you can find both…[Read more]

In March 2021, the University of California (UC) and Elsevier announced a new so-called “transformative agreement” that included slightly discounted article processing charges as UC’s route to open access in Elsevier journals. Librarians and researchers expressed immediate concern that this deal upheld inequities in the research system. The UC/El…[Read more]