This is a link to the Frontiers website which is a summary of Frontiers’ CEO, Kamila Markram, TEDxBrussels talk about why open science is the key to innovation, economic growth, and solutions to a sustainable future. There is no link to the actual video and/or the video did not open on the Frontier site. Here is the link to the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPtP6-nAjJ0
Frontiers is an open science resource where scientists can submit their research for peer review and publication. The site is organized around 230 journals (currently).
Type of Material:
Reference material. Presentation.
Recommended Uses:
The TedTalk provides an overview of the importance of open science. This could be used in undergraduate or graduate-level research methods courses. It could be used for lectures, in class presentation, self-paced learning.
Technical Requirements:
Access to YouTube.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
1. To understand the essence of open science.
2. To establish the difference between open and closed science.
3. To establish why open science is the key to economic growth and solutions to a sustainable future.
4. To understand the importance of open science resources for the advancement of scientific knowledge.
Target Student Population:
High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None for the presentation. Some articles on the Frontiers site may be too sophisticated for non-researchers.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
This rating is based on the Frontier site. This is a great resource to access quality research in many fields.
According to the site:
Editorial decisions at Frontiers are guided by clear acceptance and rejection criteria during a single anonymized, rigorous peer review. Editorial independence of acceptance decisions is assured by the involvement of external experts as editors and reviewers. Our in-house publishing professionals quality-control and monitor the process, may reject manuscripts at any point during the review and validate final editorial decisions to ensure our quality standards and policies are being adhered to.
All articles published by Frontiers are immediately and permanently accessible online free of charge and published under a Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and the source are credited. Open access publishing is, however, not free of costs and we operate a gold open access model with article processing charges for accepted papers. Our guiding principle is that any quality research paper is published while running a sustainable operation.
Quality is assured by requiring that all submitted manuscripts adhere to the highest ethical standards and demonstrate rigorous and insightful research methodology and conclusions. Inclusion of appropriate reporting guidelines and the adherence of community standards for data availability to support reproducibility are also strict requirements. Failure to meet these requirements precludes review. Research must then be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public – and shape society. Therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews, established in the high standards of our peer review system.
Concerns:
Article publishing fees are probably reasonable, but out of reach of many researchers.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
This rating is for the Frontiers site. They are pushing academic publishing to a new frontier! Access to research is fundamental to advancing our knowledge.
It can be used across many disciplines and can be used in a variety of ways to achieve teaching and learning goals.
Concerns:
There is no transcript of the video. The teaching and learning goals are not easy to identify.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The website is logical and it is easy to locate research by area/topic by organizing the site by journals. The site has a clear and consistent lay out and the software is easy to navigate.
Frontiers' journals and editorial boards are structured to ensure rigor and the publication of high-quality research, as well as to support collaboration and future growth.
The site has a clear and consistent lay out and the software is easy to navigate.Academic journals on our platform are referred to as field journals
Each field journal is a collection of core communities, defined by specialty sections
Each specialty section operates as an independent editorial unit with its own editorial board
Concerns:
1. There is no transcript of the video to allow people who are not too conversant with the english language to use the material.
2. There is no clear and accurate instructions for use.
3. There should be an inscription of the words of the video as the presenter talks in the video.
Creative Commons:
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