Accessibility in the SciELO Program: current status and future prospects – Part 2

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The SciELO Accessibility Interdisciplinary Working Group has been developing actions for the production and dissemination of open science with accessibility, making improvements to the sites that use the SciELO methodology, awareness-raising activities and partnerships with publishing teams. These and other practices are planned for the next four years. Read More →

Accessibility in the SciELO Program: current status and future prospects – Part 1

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The SciELO Accessibility Interdisciplinary Working Group has been developing actions for the production and dissemination of open science with accessibility, making improvements to the sites that use the SciELO methodology, awareness-raising activities and partnerships with publishing teams. These and other practices are planned for the next four years. Read More →

New tool to assess equity in scholarly communication models

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The “How Equitable Is It” tool, launched at the OASPA 2024 conference, was developed by a multi-stakeholder Working Group convened by cOAlition S, Jisc and PLOS, with the goal to provide a framework for evaluating scholarly communication models and arrangements on the axis of equity. Read More →

Editorial policies for inclusion and diversity in the Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença

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The Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença has implemented important changes by adopting Open Science practices with a focus on IDEIA principles, being a pioneer in the area of Performing Arts in Brazil. Prior to this, the journal already followed similar principles, as evidenced by the thematic section “Performance and Ethnic-Racial Relations”, published in 2017. Read More →

Art as a Vehicle and Jerzy Grotowski’s Investigations Beyond the 20th Century

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Dossier on director Jerzy Grotowski highlights the relevance of his theatrical practices and cross-cultural approaches, featuring articles that revisit his legacy to propose new perspectives for contemporary theatrical art. Read More →

Metamorphosis, friction or symbiosis between body and animated forms in the work of Ilka Schönbein

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The works of puppeteer and dancer Ilka Schönbein challenge perceptions of life and death, provoking reflections on eroticism and finitude. Her creations reveal a poetic singularity that provokes disquieting strangeness in the relationship between the human and the animate. Read More →

Presence as a field of research in the performing arts

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Throughout its work, the Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença has given visibility to various themes in the performing arts, focusing on the concept of presence. We present articles that discuss this subject in dialogue with philosophy and media arts, going beyond the hic et nunc of the stage event. Read More →

Performing Arts research highlighted on the blog “SciELO in Perspective”

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The Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença Special Week, taking place this week, will explore themes such as the notion of presence, methodological diversity, and social issues in Performing Arts research. The program includes analyses, discussions and a detailed overview of the journal’s social impact, highlighting its importance and activities within the scope of Open Science. Read More →

An Analysis of the Epistemological Foundations of Machine Learning

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Outlined here is a critical review of the logical-epistemic foundations of machine learning, focusing on the limitation of AI systems’ autonomy in generating knowledge. It contrasts this possibility with the theoretical constraints posed by Chaitin’s incompleteness theorem, which argues that AI cannot surpass human cognitive capacity. Read More →

Tracing the origins of ‘publish or perish’ [Originally published in the LSE Impact blog in July/2024]

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The search for the origin of the phrase ‘publish or perish’ has been intriguing since it was first raised by Eugene Garfield in 1996. Drawing on recent discoveries in relation to this question, Vladimir Moskovkin, discusses the evolution of the term and pinpoints its earliest known usage to date. Read More →

115 years of Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, reflections on the current model and the future of scientific journals

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Reflections on the current scenario of large publishers, the emergence of “money-hungry” publishers and qualified journals that do not charge for publication and that try to survive in the face of a scientific model that values metrics in a vicious cycle for researchers, institutions, journals and funding agencies alike. Read More →

Trans/Form/Ação officially adopts preprints as a submission method

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As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, Trans/Form/Ação is now accepting preprints as a form of submission. This pilot model seeks to encourage scientific debate and the improvement of texts of philosophical interest. Doctors or doctoral students who have passed their qualifying exams can submit their manuscripts on a continuous basis. Available in Portuguese only. Read More →

Bibliometric study on the adoption of open science measures reveals high scores for both Brazilian and SciELO-indexed journals

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Since 2019, SciELO has advocated for the adoption of open science practices which serve to increase transparency and scientific rigor of published science. A recent study provides a glimpse of the adoption of these measures among Ibero-American publications. Read More →

How to translate academic writing into podcasts using generative AI [Originally published in the LSE Impact blog in June/2024]

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One of the benefits of generative AI is the ability to transform one media from text, to speech, to imagery to video. In this post Andy Tattersall explores one aspect of this ability, by transforming his archive written blogposts into a podcast format, Talking Threads, and discusses why and how this could be beneficial for research communication. Read More →

Educação em Revista: editorial challenges and scientific possibilities

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The trajectory of Educação em Revista reflects its commitment to quality scientific publishing. This editorial addresses its transformations in scientific management, technological adaptation, internationalization, and adherence to Open Science, discussing the need to professionalize the editorial staff of Brazilian scientific journals to guarantee financial and scientific sustainability nationally and internationally. Read More →