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Den 10. til 12. mai 2009 var Universitetet i Bergen vertskap for den mest imponerende samling samfunnsforskere som noen gang har vært samlet på norsk jord. Hele 850 deltakere fra 81 land inntok Grieghallen da International Social Science... more
Den 10. til 12. mai 2009 var Universitetet i Bergen vertskap for den mest imponerende samling samfunnsforskere som noen gang har vært samlet på norsk jord. Hele 850 deltakere fra 81 land inntok Grieghallen da International Social Science Council (ISSC) arrangerte World Social Science Forum for første gang. Hvilke politiske konsekvenser kan en slik konferanse få?
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This is a short story of how The Norwegian Journal of Sociology was saved. The story indicates how important it is for the research community to engage as active owners of a scientific journal and at the same time the importance of a... more
This is a short story of how The Norwegian Journal of Sociology was saved. The story indicates how important it is for the research community to engage as active owners of a scientific journal and at the same time the importance of a stable and professional publisher when the journals future is at stake.
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In this article we will shed some light on how Norway developed a strategy to move its open science and career policies from cautiousness to avant-gardism, and hence being able to contribute to the overall process on research assessment... more
In this article we will shed some light on how Norway developed a strategy to move its open science and career policies from cautiousness to avant-gardism, and hence being able to contribute to the overall process on research assessment that we see today, despite being a small European country. A central actor in this strategy was Universities Norway, the Norwegian rectors conference, which through its Action Plan on Open Science from 2018, managed to link key actors nationally to develop NOR-CAM as a concrete toolbox for a broader and more flexible way to assess academic careers. Consequently, we see that most of the core principles in the new European Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment is already on its way to be implemented in Norway.
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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), the BOAI2020 steering committee asked for input from colleagues in all academic fields and regions of the world, to support the work on a new set of... more
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), the BOAI2020 steering committee asked for input from colleagues in all academic fields and regions of the world, to support the work on a new set of recommendations. We contribute from the perspective of the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication (www.helsinki-inititiave.org) by addressing the proposed question 3: "Do some strategies (methods, models) to advance OA have harmful longer-term consequences? If some strategies do cause harm, which strategies and which harms? Which strategies to advance OA positively foster (or at least avoid conflicts with) longer-term goals?" Our main concerns are twofold: Funding model based on article processing charges (APC), which has emerged as the dominant funding model of international - and especially commercial - English language Gold OA publishing, jeopardizes not only diversity, equity and inclusion but also quality of a...
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This article analyses the impact and visibility of scholarly journals in the humanities that are publishing in the national languages in Finland, Norway and Spain. Three types of publishers are considered: commercial publishers, scholarly... more
This article analyses the impact and visibility of scholarly journals in the humanities that are publishing in the national languages in Finland, Norway and Spain. Three types of publishers are considered: commercial publishers, scholarly society as publisher, and research organizations as publishers. Indicators of visibility and impact were obtained from Web of Science, SCOPUS, Google Metrics, Scimago Journal Rank and Journal Citation Report. The findings compiled show that in Spain the categories “History and Archaeology” and “Language and Literature” account for almost 70% of the journals analysed, while the other countries offer a more homogeneous distribution. In Finland, the scholarly society publisher is predominant, in Spain, research organization as publishers, mostly universities, have a greater weighting, while in Norway, the commercial publishers take centre stage. The results show that journals from Finland and Norway will have reduced possibilities in terms of impact a...
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This is a short story of how The Norwegian Journal of Sociology was saved. The story indicates how important it is for the research community to engage as active owners of a scientific journal and at the same time the importance of a... more
This is a short story of how The Norwegian Journal of Sociology was saved. The story indicates how important it is for the research community to engage as active owners of a scientific journal and at the same time the importance of a stable and professional publisher when the journals future is at stake.
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DORA, the Leiden manifesto, and the Metric Tide report promote responsible use of research metrics in research evaluation. This includes not ceding decision-making to numbers, and not using journal-based metrics as a proxy for research... more
DORA, the Leiden manifesto, and the Metric Tide report promote responsible use of research metrics in research evaluation. This includes not ceding decision-making to numbers, and not using journal-based metrics as a proxy for research quality. These principles are endorsed by European Commission, LERU, and EUA in recently published open science recommendations and roadmaps. Incentives reinforcing the dominant position of commercial academic publishers is also a relevant concern. In Denmark, Finland and Norway, the performance-based research funding systems (PRFS) use a channel-based publication indicator to allocate part of the block-funding annually to universities (so-called Norwegian model). In this presentation we discuss from the perspective of the Nordic publication indicator (NPI) three questions related to the responsible metrics and open science agenda:<br> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.5px 'Times New Roman'} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px ...
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The so-called "Norwegian Model" (Schneider 2009; Ahlgren et al. 2012; Sivertsen 2016), which so far has been adopted at the national level by Denmark, Finland and Norway, partly also by Belgium (Flanders) and at the local level... more
The so-called "Norwegian Model" (Schneider 2009; Ahlgren et al. 2012; Sivertsen 2016), which so far has been adopted at the national level by Denmark, Finland and Norway, partly also by Belgium (Flanders) and at the local level by several Swedish universities, includes a bibliometric indicator which is intended to represent all fields of research comprehensively and comparably. One component of the indicator is a journal ranking process that involves the academic community at regular intervals.After "light" assessments of the experiences with the model in the Danish and Flemish contexts in 2012 (Sivertsen & Schneider 2012; Technopolis Group 2013), the Norwegian model was evaluated extensively in Norway in 2013 with regard to its design, effects, organization, and legitimacy (Aagaard et al. 2014; Aagaard et al. 2015). Three major problems were identified, all which have been followed up by The National Board of Scholarly Publishing in Norway, the representative ac...
DORA, the Leiden manifesto, and the Metric Tide report promote responsible use of research metrics in research evaluation. This includes not ceding decision-making to numbers, and not using journal-based metrics as a proxy for research... more
DORA, the Leiden manifesto, and the Metric Tide report promote responsible use of research metrics in research evaluation. This includes not ceding decision-making to numbers, and not using journal-based metrics as a proxy for research quality. These principles are endorsed by European Commission, LERU, and EUA in recently published open science recommendations and roadmaps. Incentives reinforcing the dominant position of commercial academic publishers is also a relevant concern. In Denmark, Finland and Norway, the performance-based research funding systems (PRFS) use a channel-based publication indicator to allocate part of the block-funding annually to universities (so-called Norwegian model). In this presentation we discuss from the perspective of the Nordic publication indicator (NPI) three questions related to the responsible metrics and open science agenda: 1. does NPI advance open access? • dissemination of OA information • inclusion of OA journals at level 1 • effort to excl...
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Den 10. til 12. mai 2009 var Universitetet i Bergen vertskap for den mest imponerende samling samfunnsforskere som noen gang har vært samlet på norsk jord. Hele 850 deltakere fra 81 land inntok Grieghallen da International Social Science... more
Den 10. til 12. mai 2009 var Universitetet i Bergen vertskap for den mest imponerende samling samfunnsforskere som noen gang har vært samlet på norsk jord. Hele 850 deltakere fra 81 land inntok Grieghallen da International Social Science Council (ISSC) arrangerte World Social Science Forum for første gang. Hvilke politiske konsekvenser kan en slik konferanse få?
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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), the BOAI2020 steering committee asked for input from colleagues in all academic fields and regions of the world, to support the work on a new set of... more
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), the BOAI2020 steering committee asked for input from colleagues in all academic fields and regions of the world, to support the work on a new set of recommendations. We contribute from the perspective of the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication (www.helsinki-inititiave.org) by addressing the proposed question 3:
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By introducing the Norwegian Publication Indicator in 2004 Norway became part of an international development in which the allocation of basic funds to research institutions is increasingly linked to performance indicators (Dansk... more
By introducing the Norwegian Publication Indicator in 2004 Norway became part of an international development in which the allocation of basic funds to research institutions is increasingly linked to performance indicators (Dansk center for forskningsanalyse, 2014). Denmark and Finland have also implemented what is frequently labeled as “The Norwegian Model”. The model has inspired changes in similar national models in Flanders (Belgium) and Poland, and it is used for local purposes by several universities in Sweden and by University of Dublin, in Ireland (Sivertsen, 2018). The research community has been deeply involved in designing and adopting the model in Norway, and the annual processes evaluating journals depend on involvement by panels in every field of research. The indicator has an interactive webpage where researchers can communicate and discuss publication channels openly, and the final decisions made by panels when nominating journals to the highest level (level 2) are transparent and openly available at the webpage.
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Den 10. til 12. mai 2009 var Universitetet i Bergen vertskap for den mest imponerende samling samfunnsforskere som noen gang har vært samlet på norsk jord. Hele 850 deltakere fra 81 land inntok Grieghallen da International Social... more
Den 10. til 12. mai 2009 var Universitetet i Bergen vertskap for den
mest imponerende samling samfunnsforskere som noen gang har vært
samlet på norsk jord. Hele 850 deltakere fra 81 land inntok Grieghallen
da International Social Science Council (ISSC) arrangerte World Social
Science Forum for første gang. Hvilke politiske konsekvenser kan en
slik konferanse få?
mest imponerende samling samfunnsforskere som noen gang har vært
samlet på norsk jord. Hele 850 deltakere fra 81 land inntok Grieghallen
da International Social Science Council (ISSC) arrangerte World Social
Science Forum for første gang. Hvilke politiske konsekvenser kan en
slik konferanse få?