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Another nice piece of reading published in Open Health: "Exploring the role of City Networks in supporting urban resilience to COVID-19 in conflict-affected settings."
Background: It is estimated that by 2050, almost 70 percent of the global population will be residing in urban areas. In recent years, cities have become central in tackling key urban challenges and have demonstrated greater flexibility in policymaking and innovation than national governments. Citie...
Open Health | New article: "Fighting COVID-19 in Freetown, Sierra Leone: the critical role of community organisations in a growing pandemic"
Topical Issue -> "From crisis to transformation: the coronavirus and urban development planning"
https://doi.org/10.1515/openhe-2020-0005
Interesting reading in "Open Health." Enjoy!
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads in Africa, attention is increasingly shifting to the potential and ongoing impact on informal settlements, which face considerable challenges around the implementation of conventional control measures of social distancing, hand washing and self-isolation. In Freetown...
Enjoy the new reading: "Systemic Oppression and the Contested Ground of Information Access for Incarcerated People."
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opis/4/1/article-p169.xml
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season!
"From Print to Digital, from Document to Data: Digitalisation at the Publications Office of the European Union" is a part of the special issue on Infomation Management and Digital Information.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opis/4/1/article-p203.xml
We are proud to inform you that Open Information Science has been accepted for inclusion in Scopus. This is the result of hard work of the whole editorial team. Thank you all!
We're excited to introduce our panelists on Gender Equity and Diversity in .
Our first panelist is Prof. Lucy Campbell, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Carleton University (Official). Her recent project includes "Connecting Women in Across Canada," aiming to support the career development of young women in the Canadian mathematics community.
This panel discussion will assess where we stand and how we can achieve gender equity and more diversity in STEM disciplines. The intersection of with issues surrounding race and sexual orientation will also be explored.
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A panel discussion on Gender Equity and Diversity in STEM will take place on November, 9th. Register now!
Event alert! As part of Berlin Science Week, we will be hosting a panel discussion on Gender Equity and Diversity in STEM.
Research communities in the STEM fields are still largely dominated by (mostly white) men. At the same time, women and academics from marginalized groups have been organizing and fighting for years to make STEM more inclusive and diverse. This panel discussion will assess where we stand and how we can achieve gender equity and more diversity in STEM disciplines. The intersection of gender equity with issues surrounding race and sexual orientation will be explored.
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Today we celebrate the International Day for Universal Access to Information!
https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/accesstoinformationday
International Day for Universal Access to Information 28 September Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019. The day had been procla...
What are carceral narratives, and how are they constructed? Check in the new reading published in OPIS.
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0012
Using Critical Race Theory and a Rapid Contextual Design approach to exploring the curatorial behaviors of school librarians when searching for diverse books, the study offers design ideas for retooling discovery platforms in ways that bridge the cultural disconnect that young adults from historically marginalized racial backgrounds experience in their libraries. The article concludes that in order for school librarians to find, recommend and teach about books that reflect race, equity and inclusion themes, they need more sophisticated and user-centered features that reflect critical race and multicultural analytic frameworks.
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0009
The pilot study, published in OPIS, presents a collection-centered quantitative analysis of Black history resources available at the Billups-Garth Archive in Columbus, Mississippi.
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0014
"Machine Readable Race: Constructing Racial Information in the Third Reich" is the new article published within the special issue on race and racism in information studies. Enjoy the reading!
AbstractThis paper examines how informational processing drove new structures of racial classification in the Third Reich. The Deutsche Hollerith-Maschinen Gesellschaft mbH (Dehomag) worked closely with the gover...
There is a new paper published within the special issue on information management and digital information. It considers information management in the Intelligence Branch of Britain’s War Office.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opis/4/1/article-p91.xml
AbstractIntelligence has always been an aspect of organized warfare. It was not until 1873, however, that the British Army recognised this formally by establishing an explicitly named unit, under the auspices of....
New reading available in Open Information Science: The YouTube Algorithm and the Alt-Right Filter Bubble.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opis/4/1/article-p85.xml
AbstractThe YouTube algorithm is a combination of programmed directives from engineers along with learned behaviors that have evolved through the opaque process of machine learning which makes the algorithm’s di...
Navigating Information through the Uncertain Times of COVID-19.
This special issue of Open Information Science (OIS) invites abstracts and papers that contribute knowledge to develop the idea of “Navigating information through the uncertain times of COVID-19” and its impacts on people, healthcare, data sharing, and technologies.
Deadlines:
Deadline for abstracts (each with a word count no more than 500) is September 30th, 2020.
Decision of notification for papers is October 15th, 2020.
Closing date for submissions of new papers is February 26th, 2021
More details:https://www.degruyter.com/supplemental/journals/opis/opis-overview.xml/Navigating_through_the_uncertain_times.pdf
Is access enough? - asks Heather Brodie Perry in the lates paper from the special issue: Access to information: Freedom and censorship.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opis/4/1/article-p29.xml
AbstractAccess to information encourages innovation and leads to participation in society of individuals. The emergence of Open Access supports the inclusion of all, including the voices of the traditionally marg...
"As global digitization continues, notions of immigrants as those in absolute information darkness no longer hold, even among those who are forcefully displaced. Migrants use the Internet and ICT now more than ever to participate in
the information society prior to, upon, and after relocating".
More in the newest reading belonging to the special issue: Information studies, race, and racism.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opis/4/1/article-p75.xml
This paper investigated and analyzed public libraries’ policies regarding patron use of legal, visual Internet po*******hy on public computers. In an attempt to understand the problem, the research question asks: how do public libraries respond to patrons using legal Internet po*******hy, while upholding First Amendment rights as well as the Children’s Internet Protection Act (C**A) and other legal requirements?
Read the lates paper from the special issue: Access to information: Freedom and censorship.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opis/4/1/article-p58.xml?tab_body=pdf-74962
"Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer and Genomic Uncertainty: A QuantCrit Mini-Review"
by Lynette Hammond Gerido brings into consideration the disparities of African American women’s health information behaviors. This paper belongs to the special issue on inforation studies and racism.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opis/4/1/article-p39.xml
Lockdown Diaries: How librarians across three continents cope with
https://blog.degruyter.com/tag/librarians-coping-with-covid-19/
Perspectives on the pandemic - download and read.
De Gruyter has just published a collection of twelve essays from leading social scientists on the Corona pandemic as a free digital pamphlet. 12 perspectives on the pandemic: International social science thought leaders reflect on Covid-19 brings together leading scholars from around the world to create a snapshot of social science thinking on issues like past pandemics, mounting global inequality, the impact on health and tourism, and changing requirements of welfare states.
https://bit.ly/2Wby4wi
"Why intellectual freedom? Or; Your values are historically contingent." The newest papers belonging to the special issue: Access to information: freedom and censorship is online:)
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opis/4/1/article-p11.xml
The very first paper belonging to the special issue: Access to information: freedom and censorship has been published. Enjoy the reading!
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/opis/4/1/article-p1.xml
In this guest lesson, the math teacher Patrick Honner helps students practice looking critically at data in the news.
: SHAPING OUR FUTURE TOGETHER
In 2020, the United Nations (UN) is celebrating its 75th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the organization stimulates a global conversation on major challenges of our time: digital technologies, violence, inequality, climate and demographic change. We believe that academic knowledge has a majo...
It is all about books:)
The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it wants to compete with that most hallow…
"Fake News are understood as intentionally and verifiably false articles created to manipulate people and disinformation as a bigger ensemble of techniques to manipulate public opinion for political gain with perverted (but not only false) information. One way to deal with these matters goes through a more complex process: the development of critical
information literacy in the society as a whole." More int the newest reading published in OPIS.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opis.2019.3.issue-1/opis-2019-0019/opis-2019-0019.xml?format=INT
"Fake news has social consequences such as undermining civic discourse and democracy, and inciting hatred. Consequently, the role of libraries as public, social institutions embedded in democratic societies and the relational aspects of information needs are important to consider" - claims author of the newest paper published in OPIS.
AbstractThe post-truth era and the increasing ease with which fake news is disseminated and consumed is a wicked problem that invites re-examination of the media environment, algorithmic authority, library and information science (LIS) professional practice, and what people bring to information inte...
The newest paper from the special issue "Fake News in Library and Information Science" is online. Enjoy the reading!
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opis.2019.3.issue-1/opis-2019-0009/opis-2019-0009.xml?format=INT
For researchers around the world, the importance of drawing from past scholarship to inform future discovery is growing. We talked with librarians about how integral digital archives are to their institutions today.
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New post on the blog:)
On June 20, 2019, Christine Mwongeli Mutuku has published an article entitled “Engaging a Data Revolution: Open Science Data Hubs and the New Role for Universities in Africa” in Open Information Science. A Blog...
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