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The recording and indexing of research plays a vital role in how it can be found and used, but what happens when the output from a research project is not a written document, but a performance, series of events or an artistic work? 💡An interesting article by LSE Impact Blog on non-traditional forms of research output.

Find out more about the new research theme on New Technology and Humanism that we have launched with Professor Tim Barker (also from University of Glasgow, College of Arts and Humanities) as part of the extended CREATe centre (with renewed funding from Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)) in this blog

Students who take notes the traditional way, with pen, pencil or even a stylus on a tablet, learn better. New research points to a mechanism: writing by hand stimulates brain activity across a wide range of interconnected brain regions responsible for movement, vision, sensory processing and memory, reports science and tech journalist Charlotte Hu. But the findings do not hold Luddite implications. The problem is relying too heavily on technology, such as increasingly using smartphones to remember tasks and information, taking photos instead of memorizing visual data, or depending on GPS for navigation. How it works: By drawing and otherwise enacting information, “you have to produce something that’s meaningful,” says Yadurshana Sivashankar, a cognitive neuroscience graduate student, who was not involved in the new study. As we write, we transform the information, paving and deepening interconnections in the brain, Sivashankar says, making it “much easier to access that information.” What the experts say: Typing yields minimal brain activity in the same areas. This study and others suggest that we type without thinking. “It’s very tempting to type down everything that the lecturer is saying. It kind of goes in through your ears and comes out through your fingertips, but you don’t process the incoming information,” says study co-author Audrey van der Meer. #memory #learning #brainstimulation #writingnotes

In September, the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) published a draft report on academic freedom in the European Union. Recently, an amended version of the report was adopted. As an open access publisher, Frontiers welcomes the adoption of the amended report. By making scientific results, methods, and data publicly available, it is possible to increase the quality, speed, impact, and reproducibility of research. Furthermore, open science fosters a culture of openness, diversity, and innovation in the scientific community, empowering researchers to address the global challenges of our time. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eR7fkGJB #openaccess #openscience

In accordance with #OpenScience principles, the purview of standard identification protocols for research results, such as DOIs, may need to be extended to include various research participation roles, output formats, and related activities https://ow.ly/U9kj50SvR8r

In accordance with #OpenScience principles, the purview of standard identification protocols for research results, such as DOIs, may need to be extended to include various research participation roles, output formats, and related activities https://ow.ly/5Poh50SvR6V

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Although the concept of open access is more than 30 years old now, there are a lot of myths surrounding the idea and misconceptions that make researchers reluctant to publish in open access journals. Our team works with researchers day in and day out, and we have witnessed some of them holding on to such myths even now. In today's explainer, we bust four common myths about open access publishing. Our core mission at MyScienceWork is to democratize science and help institutions make their knowledge open and accessible to all. Contribute to this myth-busting exercise by sharing this post with your network! 🔁 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #CreativeCommons #KnowledgeSharing #Innovation #AcademicResearch #PolarisOS #Sirius 

Some strong points supporting open access in this article - my favourite one being: “You can get rubbish, nonsense and misinformation online for free but you have to pay for the good stuff. We need to make sure we’re getting the right information out there.” This concept does not only apply to academia of course, but scholarly publishing is a particularly extreme example. https://lnkd.in/eqJfNdjX #research #openaccess #openscience #openresearch #policy #researchpolicy

Great article on Nature, that brings into light ways of recognizing merit in science beyond authorship. The merits of people who make contributions whose names are never included in author lists: like communicators, administrators, illustrators and technicians. #ScientificCommunity #ResearchAssistants #ScienceBehindTheScenes #ScienceCommunication #ScienceAdministration https://lnkd.in/dQT8b9cE