New Publications

22/05/2018

Communicating science through the Comics & Science Workshops: the Sarabandes research project

Cecile de Hosson, Laurence Bordenave, Pierre-Laurent Daures, Nicolas Décamp, Christophe Hache, Julie Horoks, Nassima Guediri and Eirini Matalliotaki-Fouchaux

Comics & Science workshops where teenagers are asked to create a one-page comic strip based on a scientific presentation given by a PhD student can be a powerful tool to understand the reasons for certain choices of science illustration or storytelling.

15/05/2018

Optimism in a sea of uncertainties: the journalistic coverage on the research of new medicines in Brazil

Carlos Henrique Fioravanti and César Maschio Fioravanti

The journalistic coverage of biologically active compounds presented as promising drugs in Brazil – although only two of them completed the evaluation tests and got approved for commercialization – provides insights and strategies to build a more analytical view on drug research and development.

 

07/05/2018

To know or not to know: uncertainty is the answer. Synthesis of six different science exhibition contexts

Helena Thuneberg and Hannu Salmi

By analysing answers provided by young students before and after visiting a science exhibition, the authors try to identify whether uncertainty of knowing can represent “a matter of emerging critical thinking, self-reflection and weighing of whether one has sufficient evidence to decide.”

23/04/2018

Discourse media analysis of risk and responsibility for environmental pollution

Jennifer Metcalfe

How are media and political discourses about environmental pollution framed in Australia, China and Japan? By making use of novel and traditional means of analysis, authors of the book provide interesting insights relevant to those researching and practicing science communication of environmental issues.

17/04/2018

Lots of data, lots of hurdles: aggregating usage information from distributed Open Access repositories

Ulrich Herb

Reflections on outcomes of the project “Open Access Statistics”, designed to collect standardized usage figures for scientific documents, as well as complex legal requirements faced when implementing more sophisticated procedures such as network analyses.

17/04/2018

Introduction to “Specialised portals, online information services, scholarly online networks: the impact of e-infrastructures on science communication and scholarly community building”

Dirk Hommrich

“What are the criteria of successful digital infrastructures? Which potential for changing workflows or scholarly interaction and collaboration patterns do we ascribe to digital infrastructures?” JCOM new set of commentaries focuses on changing internal communication tools for scientific communities.

17/04/2018

Open infrastructure and community: the case of astronomy

Niels Taubert

“The digital infrastructure in international astronomy comes with some striking features and can be regarded as a dream come true for open science protagonists. It consists of large components that are closely connected and offer immediate or delayed access to a large share of publications and research data.”

17/04/2018

A collaboration platform for sociology. How to increase accessibility, visibility and sustainability of scientific information in sociology

Johann Schaible, Sonja Strunk and David Brodesser

An overview of the Information Service Sociology (short: FID Sociology), a collaboration platform focused on providing an approach for simplified publishing of open access publications and facilitating interaction and collaborations between members of the sociological community.

17/04/2018

Open science in the making: preliminary remarks on the putative effects of specialised online portals on scholarly collaboration and community building

Dirk Hommrich

“This commentary introduces a preliminary conceptual framework for approaching putative effects of scholarly online systems on collaboration inside and outside of academia.”

11/04/2018

Little country, big talk

Toss Gascoigne

"Why would anyone wish to track the emergence of science communication in
Ireland? There are lessons to be learned, mistakes to avoid and ideas to be
borrowed. Although the focus is Ireland, many of the issues travel internationally".

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