#open access

[jstor]

Cleansing your feed with a lime pot in the shape of a cat, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art!

[mkscienceset]

Journal of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciencess

The Journal of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences (JAEES) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in the fields of agriculture, earth sciences, and environmental sciences. The journal provides a multidisciplinary platform for researchers, academicians, scientists, and industry professionals to share innovative research, review articles, case studies, and short communications that contribute to sustainable development and scientific advancement. It aims to promote knowledge that addresses global challenges such as food security, climate change, natural resource management, environmental conservation, and ecosystem sustainability.

[mkscienceset]

Journal of Clinical Nursing & Reportss

Journal of Clinical Nursing & Reports (JCNR) (ISSN: 3065-3630) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing excellence in clinical nursing practice, nursing education, healthcare research, and patient care. The journal provides a global platform for researchers, clinicians, nurse educators, and healthcare professionals to publish high-quality scientific research that contributes to evidence-based nursing and improved healthcare outcomes.

[nilsfred]

They've put my thesis in the institutional repository

Oh my god oh my god oh my god. Guys. This is so exciting. I am a ball of hype.

Okay – so – ahem. There is this academic field called fan studies. I've just finished a master's degree and my final thesis was in that field. (Technically, my field is LIS, library and information science. Don't worry, it overlaps.) Today, my university uploaded my thesis to the institutional repository, so now everyone can read it! It's right there! Look! LOOK AT IT I'm so proud!

TL;DR:

This study looks into a group of Good Omens fans' opinions about AO3's search and tagging systems, and also talks about their thoughts about fandom overall. Specifically, I wanted to figure out whether things like amount of time using AO3, experience using other fanfiction sites, level of comfort with AO3's tagging system, or experience in LIS/librarianship or IT make any difference to a person's opinions about search and tagging on AO3. (There were no strong correlations in my data, but there were plenty of interesting qualitative observations to talk about.) I also looked at how, exactly, people go about searching AO3 in practice, what features they like to use, what things trip them up, and so on, using a fun method from the computer science field of human–computer interaction.

If you're a long-time user of AO3, the results of this study might not surprise you, but you might still be interested in the background and previous research chapters (a bit of background on the field of fan studies, a little AO3 history, what's so special about AO3's tagging system, and a tiny little bit of nitty-gritty about how its search and browse features work, for example). There's also a section in the discussion chapter about the social and community aspects of fandom (section 6.6), which I find pretty heart-warming.

By the way: All the data collection – the survey and interviews this study is based on – was done before the Good Omens finale came out. There is absolutely nothing in here about the finale. You are safe from that debate.

Abstract for the academics:

Several studies within the field of fan studies have examined fans’ attitudes to the curated folksonomy (tagging system) and search features of fanfiction archive Archive of Our Own (AO3). However, factors affecting these attitudes have not been studied extensively, and despite the conceptual proximity to the field of human–computer interaction (HCI), existing research employing HCI methods in fan studies is limited. Using a mixed-methods approach, this exploratory study collects its data from a survey, two interviews, and three condensed contextual inquiry sessions. The survey uses a modified end-user satisfaction instrument to determine attitudes to AO3 search, comparing this to certain types of academic, professional, and fandom-related experience. Weak correlations are found between search satisfaction and familiarity with the tagging system, search satisfaction and experience using other fanwork platforms, and academic or professional experience in IT or LIS and confidence using the tagging system. Contextual and qualitative content analysis suggest fans both appreciate and are confused by AO3’s interface and that AO3 performs well on exploratory searches but falls short on specific lookups. Previous findings on fans’ attitudes to AO3’s tagging system and its effects on search are also corroborated. This study adds to the literature about attitudes to searching and tagging on AO3 and demonstrates how HCI methods can benefit the fan studies field. Future research might use contextual inquiry or the search satisfaction scale developed here to study AO3 usage, or consider the meaning of these findings for questions in LIS more broadly. Keywords: Information practices, fan studies, folksonomies, information retrieval, surveys, condensed contextual inquiry, end-user satisfaction, Archive of Our Own

(Can I tag @transformativeworks here? Is that okay? Hello OTW! This is (kind of) research about you! You can look at it if you like!)

[jstor]

Hello lovely Jstor! Thank-you so much for existing! Is there a way to brows the website for books etc that are open access please? I have really enjoyed exploring the 100 books you posted a little while ago, and was wondering if there is a way to view more. I am located in the UK and my library does not connect me to Jstor and I finished uni a loooooooong time ago. Many thanks for being such a fantastic source of interesting reading. Lots of love xxx

Hi there, thank you for the kind words and for your question!

I spoke with our discovery team, and the best way to browse open access books at the moment without a specific search query is to start with our Browse by Title page, which lists titles alphabetically. While this page isn't limited to open access books, open access titles are clearly marked with a green Open Access label.

If you or anyone else reading this have a specific use case in mind, I'd be happy to pass it along to the team! Understanding how people would like to browse or discover open access books is especially helpful feedback as we consider future improvements.

[archiveofindexes]

The world’s largest collection of open access research papers

This one seems useful for articles

[babblingbalatron]

from the wikipedia article on moles

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