Editorial: The solidarity imperative and changes atEthos

This study examines Western-language, particularly English-language, monographs on Asian published in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, and other countries from 2000 through 2005. The study provides a landscape view of the scope and trends of publications for both scholars and librarians in Asian studies. The data for this study were collected from the YBP's GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information) database, covering publications profiled by YBP from January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2005. The results of data analysis shed light on scholarly currents and publishing trends in Asian over that six-year period. ********** Scholars and librarians in Asian often wonder how research productivity and publishing trends evolve in the field. Which publishers are active in this field? What subject areas have been covered prolifically or meagerly, and what does the publishing landscape look like? Traditionally, the areas of Asian literature, history, and philosophy have been strongly represented. Is this still so? Have traditional trends experienced any shifts? Which publishers are the major players in the field? Do university presses publish in different areas from commercial publishers? Some fifty years ago, Frederick Mote (1922-2005), a leading professor of history and culture at Princeton University, raised similar questions. He surveyed important academic publishers and their major publications, introducing new publishing developments in in the Republic of China on Taiwan to the Journal of Asian Studies audience. (1) He wrote, Although the Journal has on several occasions during the last five or six years reported briefly on publication there, now there is perhaps some value in reporting more comprehensively on recent developments, both because the phenomenon itself is of interest, and because many recently published items will be desired by scholars and by research libraries. (2) The authors of this article share his rationale in the examination of recent scholarly currents and publishing trends. The purpose of Mote's survey was not to list all of the worthwhile books recently published, for that would be an obvious impossibility, but to make the general outlines and character of recent publication activities known, and to inform the reader of names and addresses of publishers from whom more detailed information can be obtained. (3) Today, however, improved technology can be utilized to achieve the goal of a fairly complete survey. Technologically, all worthwhile books recently published can be listed and analyzed. The authors used YBP'S Global Online Bibliographical Information (GOBI) database in hopes of providing a comprehensive analysis of nearly all publications profiled. The analysis helped reveal characteristics of these publications and Asian publishing trends. This study's purpose was to evaluate the scope of, and trends in, Asian research and publications. In the study, the authors use the term East Asian studies to refer to on China, Japan, and Korea; Chinese studies includes People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Tibet. Within Korean studies, both North Korea and South Korea are covered. In this study, the focus is on print books. The scope includes English-language monographs on Asian published in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, and other countries between 2000 and 2005. The data were collected from GOBI, covering publications profiled by YBP from January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2005. Research and publishing trends are of interest to publishers, though largely from the perspective of sales. The Association of American Publishers Industry Statistics Annual Report registers data based on publishers' responses to questionnaires, collecting data on the sale of books in the category of Professional and Scholarly Publishing, which covers categories of technical, scientific, law, business, humanities, and medical materials. …

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Fifteen years ago, Retrovirology was amongst the first open-access journals to be established through Biomed Central, instigated by our late Founding Editor Dr. Kuan-Teh Jeang. Since then, in what seemed like a rather daring move to be paper-free, Retrovirology has witnessed the exponential growth of open access journals that have changed the landscape of scientific publishing and communications. As was pointed out by the staff editors in PLoS Biology [1], the infancy of open access journal was a very different time from our present day, which was before smartphones, prior to most of the digital social media platforms and at a time when we had only begun to learn about the completed DNA sequences from the Human Genome Project [1]. Dr. Kuan-Teh Jeang (known universally as Teh) was an accomplished virologist and chief of the molecular virology section of the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology at the NIAID NIH intramural program. Teh was a prolific scientist who authored more than 300 publications before he left us at the tragically young age of 54. Through open access publishing, Teh saw an opportunity to create a platform for retrovirologists to publish their findings in a timely manner as well as actively disseminating these publications to the community. Many of us vividly remember the enthusiastic emails that Teh sent us regarding any news or hot-off the press publications from Retrovirology.

ObjectiveOur presentation will explain current use, and barriers to use, of reproducible research practices in public health. We will also introduce a set of modules for researchers wishing to increase their use of reproducible research practices.IntroductionAn important goal of surveillance is to inform public health interventions that aim to reduce the burden of disease in the population. Ensuring accuracy of results is paramount to achieving this goal. However, science is currently facing a “reproducibility crisis” where researchers have found it difficult or impossible to reproduce study results. Organized and well-documented statistical source code that is publicly available could increase research reproducibility, especially for research relying on publicly available surveillance data like the BRFSS, NHANES, GSS, SEER, and others. As part of our overall goal to improve training around reproducible research practices, we surveyed public health data analysts to determine current practices and barriers to code sharing.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional web-based survey about code organization, documenting, storage, and sharing. We surveyed public health scientists who reported recently conducting statistical analyses for a report or manuscript. A total of 247 of 278 screened eligible to filled out the survey, and 209 answered every applicable question. We used traditional descriptive statistics and graphs to examine the survey data.ResultsMost participants reported using some promising coding practices, with 67% including a prolog to introduce the code and 85% including comments in statistical code to explain operations and analyses. Of 10 common code organization strategies (e.g., naming variables logically, using white space), most (82%) respondents reported employing at least three of the strategies and just under half (47%) reported using five or more. Over half of participants (59%) reported code was developed or checked by two or more people. Many participants also reported promising file management habits for data and code used in publications. Three-quarters (75%) had a variable dictionary to accompany the dataset used, 48% created clean versions of code files, and 64% created clean versions of data files at the time of publication. Forty three percent of participants reported that if they suddenly left their current position, it would not be easy for others to find their statistical code files. Public code sharing was much less common among participants with just 9% reporting sharing code publicly from a recent publication and 20% of those surveyed reported ever having shared code publicly.The top two barriers to using reproducible research practices were lack of training in reproducible research (n=108) and data privacy issues (n=105). Journals and funders not requiring reproducible practices were barriers selected by 94 and 84 participants, respectively. Few participants identified fear of errors being discovered (n=26) or a lack of workplace incentives (n=32) as barriers.ConclusionsMost participants were using some promising practices for organizing and formatting statistical code but few were sharing statistical code publicly. The second most frequently identified barrier to using reproduciible practices was data privacy, which could prohibit easily sharing a data source. With surveillance data often being publicly available, researchers working with surveillance data have overcome this top barrier without any change to current research practices. Researchers using surveillance data could greatly increase research reproduciblity by adopting promising practices for code formatting, like using logical variable names and limiting line length, and posting code in a public repository like GitHub.To overcome the top barrier to use of reproducible research practices, lack of training, we developed brief training modules on formatting, documenting, and sharing statistical code and data. As part of our presentation we will introduce and provide access to these online modules. The introduction will focus on the relevant modules for surveillance data users, which include statistical code formatting and statistical code sharing via GitHub.With fewer barriers to practicing reproducible research, public health researchers using surveillance data have the opportunity to be leaders in improving the adoption of reproducible research practices and subsequently improving the quality of research we rely on to improve public health.

Low rates of blood lead level screening among young children persist as a public health issue in the United States, including in Texas where levels remain below the national average. This article describes a multiyear, multipartner initiative aimed at increasing screening rates through a creative, community-informed social media campaign. Interviews with parents, providers, and state health department staff revealed a common perception that lead poisoning was a relic of the past. Using these insights, the team developed humorous social media messaging comparing extinct animals to lead poisoning to capture attention and change attitudes about lead's current relevance. The "#GetLeadCheckedTexas" campaign ran on state health department channels during National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week in October 2020. Colorful graphics depicted extinct creatures like dinosaurs along with their babies, playing on childhood enthusiasm for such animals while evoking protective feelings in parents. Messaging highlighted lead's dangers for young children and encouraged viewers to discuss testing with providers. Website analytics showed the campaign drove substantial increases in page views for lead screening resources, particularly among providers. While originally designed with a parent audience in mind, the campaign seemed to resonate more with providers, likely due to timing during an awareness week and use of official health department channels. The initiative demonstrates the value of creative communications approaches employed in traditional advertising to raise awareness and promote public health priorities. Audience research, thoughtful use of humor, and designing human-focused messaging helped cut through information clutter and drive engagement with an important childhood health issue.

Uspostavljanje modela filmske edukacije u srednjoj školi

Just Another Form of Ideology? Ethical and Methodological Principles in Film Restoration Andreas Busche [End Page 1] Since the 1980s, a serious debate about the ethics of film restoration has existed among archivists, historians, preservationists, and restorers. Numerous motion pictures have disappeared completely or survive only in a fragmentary or corrupted form. As a result, the urge to restore this lost or distorted history has become a main concern in archives and museums. However, film restoration still struggles to establish a binding professional code, comparable to those already in place in fine art restoration and heritage conservation such as the ICOM Code of Ethics, the AIC Code of Ethics, UNESCO's Memory of the World Guidelines, or the ECCO Professional Guidelines.1 Every profession that aspires to technical vocational recognition sooner or later faces the necessity of developing codified guidelines for professionals working in the field.2 Such an intellectual framework is essential, determining parameters for maneuvering and serving as a reference point for an ethical conduct. A professional code establishes the basis for a professional self-conception and encourages a permanent critical assessment of work produced in the field. Hence, a professional code constitutes a concise framework of the discipline: its raison d'être as a profession (and science), its theoretical and ethical principles, its historical conception within a broader cultural and social context, its service to the public, and, last but not least, the methodology that brings these intellectual considerations effectively into practical application. A profession without such a codification ultimately lacks the basis for conducting its work in a responsible manner. This article's foremost concern is to discuss a theoretical and ethical framework for film restoration and, consequently, propose a methodological approach toward some very specific, well-defined practical problems. The methodological principles derived from this discussion can only focus here on a narrow aspect of film restoration, namely the restoration of a black-and-white silent film from positive prints. Actual film restoration entails far more complex issues than discussed here. My purpose is to demonstrate that certain methodological principles are indeed useful. Ideally, my examination will lay a foundation for more elaborate methodologies. Discussion of an ethical and theoretical framework ultimately constitutes the first crucial stage for developing a consistent methodology. Such a methodology is an integral part of a professional code, since it constantly negotiates between the theoretical and the practical. Hence, a starting point is a careful examination of concepts such as ethics, restoration theory, methodology, and practice and how they interrelate for the establishment of a professional code. Before I continue, however, it is necessary to briefly outline my definition of restoration and distinguish it from preservation, duplication (or reproduction), and reconstruction. This step is particularly important, since a binding terminology has not yet been established. This ambiguity is a prevailing problem in the conservation profession [End Page 2] where, in 1984, indifference toward definitions of restoration and conservation forced the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to coin the rather awkward term conservator-restorer as a compromise.3 The distinction between restoration and preservation in film preservation is slightly easier to determine but nevertheless still causes dispute. We can refer to Paul Read's and Mark Paul Meyer's general statement that the term restoration (in contrast to preservation) is used when "differences are created between the materials you start with and the materials you end with."4 This definition seems to make perfect sense, but, unfortunately, it is not so simple. In relation to film objects (or film artifacts, as I prefer to call them: a print, a negative, a dup positive, or even a sound negative), the lines between restoration, preservation, and duplication are blurred, because every duplication—supposedly a "neutral" process—inevitably introduces qualitative changes in photographic information: a generational loss of quality and changes due to timing. To reach common ground, we have to mind our terminology. According to Read and Meyer, restoration encompasses the "whole spectrum of film duplication...

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Research methodological choices are intrinsically related to ideology since researchers as sign users operate within particular regimes of truth. The idea of research in the social and human sciences was borrowed from the positivist orientations in the natural sciences. Interpretivist views, in opposition, have also been increasingly guiding research in the former sciences. As ideologically informed, the claims researchers make are not separable from their understandings of social life: how they semiotically construe their “object” research choices and their positionalities vis‐à‐vis others in the world. After reviewing the ideologies and methodological principles within these two traditions, history and politics are brought into the discussion in connection with the definition of what counts as valid occidentalized modernist knowledge. Finally, more contemporary ideological issues, that is, indisciplinarity and a multispecies view of the world, are discussed. In particular, these issues are taken up regarding how they re‐envision the subject of applied linguistics.

Purpose With the remarkable capability to reach the public instantly, social media has become integral in sharing scholarly articles to measure public response. Since spamming by bots on social media can steer the conversation and present a false public interest in given research, affecting policies impacting the public’s lives in the real world, this topic warrants critical study and attention. Design/methodology/approach We used the Altmetric dataset in combination with data collected through the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) and the Botometer API. We combined the data into an extensive dataset with academic articles, several features from the article and a label indicating whether the article had excessive bot activity on Twitter or not. We analyzed the data to see the possibility of bot activity based on different characteristics of the article. We also trained machine-learning models using this dataset to identify possible bot activity in any given article. Findings Our machine-learning models were capable of identifying possible bot activity in any academic article with an accuracy of 0.70. We also found that articles related to “Health and Human Science” are more prone to bot activity compared to other research areas. Without arguing the maliciousness of the bot activity, our work presents a tool to identify the presence of bot activity in the dissemination of an academic article and creates a baseline for future research in this direction. Research limitations/implications We considered the features available from the Altmetric dataset. It can be exciting research to extract additional features about the authors of the article, the location of the publication, international collaboration and other demographic features of the authors to see the relation of these features with bot activity. Practical implications Since public interest in scientific findings can shape the decisions of policymakers, it is essential to identify the possibility of bot activity in the dissemination of any given scholarly article. Without arguing whether the social bots are good or bad and without arguing about the validity of a scholarly article, our work proposes a tool to interpret the public interest in an article by identifying the possibility of bot activity toward an article. This work publishes the models and data generated through the study and provides a benchmark and guideline for future works in this direction. Originality/value While the majority of the existing research focuses on identifying and preventing bot activity on social media, our work is novel in predicting the possibility of bot activity in the dissemination of an academic article using Altmetric metadata for the article. Little work has been performed in this specific area, and the models developed from our research give policymakers and the public a tool to interpret and understand the public interest in a scientific publication with appropriate caution.

In the past years, scientific research in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence has witnessed vast progress. The number of published papers and digital objects (data, code, models) is growing exponentially. However, not all of these research artifacts are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), contributing to a rather low level of reproducibility of the experimental findings reported in scholarly publications (reproducibility crisis). In this paper, we focus on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Open Science best practices, i.e., a set of recommendations that eventually contribute to the management and development of digital artefacts that are as FAIR as possible. While several guidelines exist, we add best practices for the FAIR collection, processing, storing and sharing of scholarly findings via Research Knowledge Graphs. The final list of recommendations will be openly available on the NFDI4DS webpage as an interactive web application.

Report of the President:The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Mark Sandberg, SASS President Salt Lake City, Utah was the venue for the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, which was held from May 3-5, 2012. Our colleagues at Brigham Young University, Christopher Oscarson, Nate Kramer, and Steven Sondrup, did a marvelous job organizing an unusually pleasant and rewarding conference in excellent facilities. Although attendance was lower overall than at our 2011 centennial conference in Chicago, many people mentioned how much they enjoyed the smaller scale and the greater opportunities to connect and discuss with those who were present. In honor of the Strindberg Year, the organizers invited Magnus Florin of the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm to give the opening plenary speech on current stagings of Strindberg's dramas; at the conclusion of the conference, we followed up on that theme by unofficially dubbing this the "Intimate Conference," since, like Strindberg's Intima Teater, the size and scale allowed for more nuance and subtlety than the usual bustle makes possible. The SASS Executive Council met on Thursday, May 3, and the General Business Meeting was held late on Friday afternoon. Front and center in discussions at both meetings was a proposal that SASS had received from the University of Illinois Press in which it offered to assume management and publication of Scandinavian Studies. A comparative cost analysis was presented at the Council meeting that indicated that the proposed arrangement could be financially viable and even cost-efficient in the long run, especially taking into consideration prospects of augmented income from online distributors like JSTOR and Project MUSE and the ability of UIP to promote and advertise the journal. The Council postponed a final vote, directing the SASS President and Vice President to travel to the UIP editorial offices after the SASS conference [End Page 537] for a closer consultation with them about the services offered. There was a similar discussion in the General Business Meeting on Friday, where those attending were informed of the tentative plans. Vice President Tom DuBois and I subsequently made a trip to Champaign-Urbana in late May to meet with the proposed editorial staff. We were impressed with their very professional operation and workflow procedures and came away convinced that the journal would be in very good hands at the University of Illinois Press. An email vote among the members of the SASS Executive Council followed, resulting in the approval of the initial proposal and the subsequent contract details later in the summer. I should add that at the time of the annual meeting in May, we still did not have a new Editor appointed to replace Steven Sondrup, who had agreed to oversee publication of Scandinavian Studies through issue 85.2 in 2013. Negotiations soon thereafter produced an excellent candidate, Susan Brantly from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (which institution has kindly provided staff support for the operation going forward). Susan brings a wealth of editorial experience and good sense to the operation, and as a former President of SASS has the long-term interests of the society clearly in mind. We are extremely pleased to confirm her acceptance of the position for a five-year term. Assisting her as Book Review Editor for the same period will be Andrew Nestingen from the University of Washington. This new division of labor, which conforms more closely with the SASS constitution, will create an efficient division of labor and make each editorial assignment more manageable. These new editors and the University of Illinois Press production team all began their terms on January 1, 2013 and are already at work preparing journal issue 85.3, which will be their debut. Given this new arrangement, I am confident that the journal has a bright future and will be especially well equipped to meet new challenges in a time of big transitions overall in academic publishing. Steven Sondrup's consistent efforts to raise the academic standing of Scandinavian Studies over the course of the twenty-three years in which he has served ably and devotedly as Editor will surely continue on with this excellent new editorial staff. Other news...

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