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December 20, 2022

Journals, editors and censorship

BU Challenges, COVID-19, Featured academics, Global engagement, international, Publishing, research integrity, Uncategorized, writing Edwin van Teijlingen

On the day that The Sun took down an column in which Jeremy Clarkson spat vitriol at Meghan Markle, it seems odd to question what the role is of an editor in preventing material from being published. Especially since Ipso (the independent press standards organisation) received more complaints (17,500+) about the column published on Friday 16th December than the total it received in the whole of 2021. Not publishing an article is of course censorship. Many will be calling for the column to be withdrawn and questioning why the editor accepted it in the first place. Censorship is the suppression or prohibition of any parts of a book, article, film, blog, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

But what if you are not a Mr. Clarkson, but you are a conscientious academic, doing proper research and drafting an evidence-based paper and the editor of an academic journal refuses to publish your article, not because of academic quality, but because the “…manuscript is likely to create disharmony in society”. With the additional detail, that according to the “National Ethical Guidelines for Health Research in Nepal, 2022, section 3, article 2.2 and section 3, article 3.1, this manuscript can’t be accepted for publication.” We (Nirmal Aryal, Pramod Regmi, Shovita Dhakal Adhikari, Shreeman Sharma & Edwin van Teijlingen) had submitted a paper with the title ‘Moral panic, fear, stigma, and discrimination against returnee migrants and Muslim populations in Nepal: analyses of COVID-19 media content’ to a health journal. We don’t think the title of the journal is relevant at this stage.

In the first round of reviewing one of the reviewers questioned our focus on the Muslim population. In our resubmission we stressed that we focused on two separate population groups because the media in Nepal did. In other words, we had noticed discriminatory media coverage towards returnee migrants (particularly those from India) and Muslim populations living in Nepal. These are key populations which experienced stigmatising and ostracising behaviour and media coverage further instigated moral panic and fear. We also conducted interviews with returnee migrants, Muslims in Nepal and key stakeholders, including agencies working with these sub-populations, and these findings have already been published. [1] Image how we felt being censored or in other words ‘cancelled’.

Our paper addressed issues, explanations and allegations related to COVID-19 as portrayed in the media in Nepal, indeed some discriminatory and many very unfair. However, as researchers we were merely the ‘messenger of bad news’. If Mr. Clarkson had not been headline news we would probably have called this blog ‘Don’t shoot the messenger!”.

References:

Regmi, P.R., Dhakal Adhikari, S., Aryal, N., Wasti, S.P. and van Teijlingen, E., 2022. Fear, Stigma and Othering: The Impact of COVID-19 Rumours on Returnee Migrants and Muslim Populations of Nepal. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (15). Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9331294/

November 14, 2022

Value propositions during service mega-disruptions: Exploring value co-creation and value co-destruction in service recovery.

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New Research Publication

Assiouras, I., Vallström, N., Skourtis, G., & Buhalis, D. (2023). Value propositions during service mega-disruptions: Exploring value co-creation and value co-destruction in service recovery. Annals of Tourism Research, 97, 103501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2022.103501

Abstract

This paper explores value co-creation and co-destruction by focusing on the role of value propositions, practices, and institutions in the tourism ecosystem during COVID-19. Customers that had experienced travel cancellations were interviewed. The findings indicate that during service mega-disruptions, customers re-evaluate resources and value propositions by prioritizing eudemonic well-being, demonstrating at the same time sympathy for the tourism firms’ well-being. However, consumers expect reciprocity, honesty, transparency, and flexibility from tourism firms. The service mega-disruption of COVID-19 provoked a misalignment of practices and routines that led to value co-destruction. This paper proposes that value co-creation can be achieved during a service mega-disruption when actors demonstrate more altruism, solidarity, and shared intentions to maximize or protect the well-being of the ecosystem’s actors.

October 27, 2022

International Open Access Week feature post – Building a Climate Change Educator Community through Open Access

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This year’s International Open Access Week features the theme of “Open for Climate Justice”.

In conjunction with the International Open Access Week which is taking place all of this week, we are happy to share with you a guest blog post from Dr Lyle Skains, a Principal Academic In Health and Science Communication with Faculty of Media and Communication. Dr Skains’s feature article talks about “Building a Climate Change Educator Community through Open Access”.

You & CO2 (YCO2) is an innovative, interdisciplinary project combining research and public engagement activities to encourage young people, aged 12-15, to engage with the global problem of climate change on a local scale and to commit to behaviour changes that will reduce their carbon footprint. Specifically, we collaborate with teachers to offer a series of multidisciplinary workshops teaching teens about climate change and climate action through playing/reading and creating interactive digital narratives. We then measure the effects of the workshops on student attitudes toward climate change and action.

Because the research team is so strongly committed to action around climate change, we’ve agreed to make all materials associated with the project open access (OA) as much as possible, to ensure that not only do our peers in academia (with institutional affiliations and library access) have access to the knowledge we are generating, but also so that teachers, parents, kids, and policymakers have easy access as well.

YCO2 materials encompass three areas: research outputs, teaching materials, and creative/coding materials. We’ve made all three areas OA. Some are easier than others! There’s no publishing industry or career metrics associated with the production of teaching materials and creative/coding texts, so we’re free to distribute those via the internet, direct from us to you. Our research outputs, however, are a different story.

For a lot of academics (me included!), the words “open access” are, to para-quote Anthony from Season 2 of Bridgerton, the “bane of our existence, and the object of all our desires”. As researchers, we’d love for all of our work to be open access—in general, we got into this gig to generate and share new knowledge, not to be content monkeys for an overgrown publishing industry.

Of course, somewhere along the line that’s what we became, and if we actually want our work to be OA (and we do, and our funders do…), we have to bail out that publishing beast with every OA article by paying some pretty steep publishing fees. Not to mention the fact that we have to navigate a maze of rules, regulations, bureaucracy, changing funders’ requirements, and institutional agreements just to get our research in a respectable form that everyone can access. It’s… a lot.

For every journal article we publish on YCO2—and so far we’ve published three, with two more in review—we jump through every one of these hoops. It’s important that we do. Our program’s purpose is to educate and influence people to act against climate change. It does no good whatsoever if no one knows about it. The project is designed to be run in schools, so it needs buy-in from teachers, headteachers, principals, IT professionals, and parents.

We don’t have a built-in distribution service. We rely on word of mouth, social media, presentations at public events, and direct contact with schools. Teachers find us through Twitter and Royal Society newsletters. If we are going to be able to convince them to run our program in their classrooms, they need to see what we’re doing with it. What we (and by extension they) are getting out of it. We shouldn’t be the only ones benefiting from the knowledge they help us generate.

When they see our website, our publications, our freely offered teaching materials, teachers can determine exactly how the program fits with their needs, how they can use it to improve their curriculum, and how their input and activities contribute to future iterations of the program. Making our materials OA helps us develop a relationship between teachers and the YCO2 program, establishing a network of climate change educators dedicated to effecting change.

That makes it worth all the hoop-jumping and red tape, not that we don’t wish there were a better way!

To find out more about Dr Skains and her research area, please visit Dr Skains’s Staff Profile Page.

Some of Dr Skains’s articles which are available open access include the following:

Playing for Change: Teens’ Attitudes Towards Climate Change Action as Expressed Through Interactive Digital Narrative Play

How big is my carbon footprint? Understanding young people’s engagement with climate change education

Smart Schools: AI Technology and Education Futures as Imagined on Screen

October 26, 2022

UKRI Open Access Policy

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In conjunction with the International Open Access Week, it is timely to highlight the UKRI Open Access policy that was introduced in April 2022. If you are a UKRI grant holder, this will apply to you.

As of 1st April 2022, the new UKRI Open Access Policy became effective.

This policy applies to publications which need to acknowledge funding from UKRI or any of its councils. This includes funding from:

the research councils
Research England
Innovate UK.

The policy applies to the following types of publication, when they are required to acknowledge funding from UKRI or any of its constituent councils

a. Peer-reviewed research articles, including reviews and conference papers, that are accepted for final publication in either a journal, conference proceeding with an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), or publishing platform

b. Monographs, book chapters and edited collections, as defined at Annex 1 of the policy document (the policy will only apply to these publication types after 1 January 2024)

For research articles, these are the key things you need to know –

the policy applies to all research articles submitted for publication on or after 1 April 2022
there are two different compliant routes to open access
Route 1 – Publish your research article open access in a journal or publishing platform which makes the Version of Record (VOR)(also known as the final published version) immediately open access via its website
- The VOR must be free and unrestricted to view and download. It must have a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence, or other licence permitted by UKRI (see the policy for more information)
- The research article must be made open access in a journal or publishing platform that facilitate access, discovery and reuse
Route 2 – Publish your research article in a subscription journal (also known as hybrid journal) and deposit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript (or if the publisher permits, you can upload the VOR) in an institutional repository (in our case, this would be BURO – Bournemouth University Research Online, and the deposit is done via BRIAN), or a subject repository at the same time of final publication, as defined at Annex 1.
- The deposited version must be free and unrestricted to view and download. It must have a CC BY licence, or other licence permitted by UKRI
- A publisher-requested delay or ’embargo period’ between publication of the Version of Record and open access of the deposited version is not permitted.
- The research article must be made open access in a repository that facilitate access, discovery and reuse

For more details on the policy requirements, please refer to the UKRI Open Access policy website.

If you are a UKRI grant holder and you are unsure about what you should do to comply, please email your questions to OpenAccess@bournemouth.ac.uk

October 25, 2022

Open Access @ BU – An overview

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In conjunction with the International Open Access Week, it is timely to talk about what Open Access means at BU!

Open Access

Open access is a broad international movement that seeks to grant free and open online access to academic information, such as publications and data. A publication is defined ‘open access’ when there are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it – that is to say when anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for and search within the information, or use it in education or in any other way within the legal agreements.

Open Access Funding @BU

Although Bournemouth University has been awarded the UKRI Open Access block grant, it is a very modest amount. However, there is a small centralised BU Open Access Fund that BU authors can get access to on a competitive basis. Due to a very limited budget, application for funding is extremely competitive, and the selection criteria are stringent. In the past years, through the centralised open access fund, Bournemouth University has been able to support open access outputs from various impactful key research, including Epibentic and mobile species colonisation of a geo textile artificial sur reef on the south coast of England, Dignity and respect during pregnancy and childbirth: A survey of the experience of disabled women, Seven Characteristics Defining Online News Formats, Applied screening tests for the detection of superior face recognition, and many more!

Open Access Funding through Transformative Deals

Through the UK JISC Agreements, Bournemouth University currently has Read and Publish open access transformative deals with publishers such as BMJ, SAGE, Springer, PLOS, Wiley and more, which means that BU authors can publish open access for free in the journal titles covered under the deals, subject to their terms and conditions. Each transformative deal and what it covers varies from one another.

For example, the BMJ transformative deal only covers original research articles from research funded by UKRI, British Hearth Foundation, Blood Cancer UK, Cancer Research UK, Parkinsons UK, Versus Arthritis or the Wellcome Trust. As for the SAGE transformative deal, there is no such restrictions; however, you can only publish open access for free under a select list of journal titles.

In order to ensure that you get the maximum benefit from these transformative deals, do head over to the Bournemouth University Library and Learning Support guide for more details and information!

Green Open Access @ BU

Green Open Access, also referred to as self-archiving, is the practice of placing a version of an author’s manuscript into a repository, making it freely accessible for everyone. The version that can be deposited into a repository is dependent on the funder or publisher. You can make use of the Sherpa Romeo online resource to check the copyright policies of your target journal or publisher. At Bournemouth University, the self-archiving process is done through our current research and information system called BRIAN (Bournemouth Research Information and Networking); and all successfully reviewed and deposited manuscripts will be housed in our institutional repository called BURO (Bournemouth University Research Online).

October 25, 2022

International Open Access Week feature post – Exploration of the concept of environmental justice

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This year’s International Open Access Week features the theme of “Open for Climate Justice”.

In conjunction with the International Open Access Week which is taking place all of this week, we are happy to share with you a guest blog post from Dr Xin Zhao, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Journalism with Faculty of Media and Communication. Dr Zhao’s feature article takes us into an “Exploration of the concept of environmental justice”.

I like things to be categorised. This is perhaps the biggest reason why when approaching an academic topic or area, I am so drawn to the definition of a concept, as well as its components. The same occurs to my study of environmental justice.

You have probably seen a generalised definition of environmental justice somewhere, like the one below:

…fair treatment for people of all races, incomes and occupations, regardless of gender, residence, educational level, age, political position or background, regarding the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, policies, and meaningful involvement in the decision-making processes of the government, and the fair distribution of environmental burdens and benefits to all. (Quan, 2002, p. 464)

Then a simple question arises, how would we evaluate whether an activity is “just” or not, environmentally speaking. I appreciate that the world is too complicated to be answered in such manner. But at least we need to know what standards we would use in the evaluation.

So as a researcher, I dig. Although there is no comprehensive list of all standards, I pieced together available literature in areas such as environmental science and organisation communication and came up with my own list. The list includes components such as “rich people pay”, “openness and participation”, “adequacy”, and “transparency”. With operationalised definitions, it became straightforward when evaluating relevant statements prevalent in various discourses, such as news articles. For example, “Greenpeace praised the Orange Alert that had been declared for putting restrictions on construction and industry, but said that it was “clearly not enough”” from The Independent (Griffin, 2015) clearly addressed the adequacy issues in environmental justice which points to the all-around (not partial), timely (not outdated), and accurate (not wrong) way of addressing environmental issues.

Definitions make me feel secure because it functions as a foundation for any further research. I employed the above components in my study of the media representations of environmental justice in the case of China’s air pollution by China’s outward-focused news media (Zhao, 2021). My study showed the consistency of China’s mediated international communication in covering the overall architecture of governmental policies in dealing with air pollution issues (“adequacy”). Interestingly, it also identified an extension of the scope of the content of communication. China’s news media also exposed the general causes of air pollution (“polluter’s responsibility”) and the detailed demands from the public, especially those from the vulnerable groups (“special need”) and those concerning the public’s involvement in the decision-making and execution procedures (“openness and participation”). With the aid of the conceptual mapping about the notion of environmental justice, I am able to generate meaningful findings regarding real-world issues.

Of course, the list of components I came up with needs to be honed through tests and debates, like any other concepts, let alone we are talking about one of the trickiest concepts, i.e. justice. The list needs to be expanded and revised when bringing in the issues such as race, colour, and national origin when discussing environmental justice issues in the international and cross-cultural settings. Only with clear and straightforward concepts can reasonable responsibilities be assigned and executed, for example, who should shoulder the duties of managing the hazardous waste and which groups or communities should receive extra protection from the harms. This could be a fruitful area of study and I look forward to relevant collaborations.

Reference:

Griffin, A. (2015). Beijing Smog ‘Red Alert’ Issued, The Independent. 7 December. Available at: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/beijing-smog-red-alertissued-schools-and-businesses-to-completely-shut-down-as-chinese-capital-issues-first-everextreme-warning-a6763286.html (Accessed: 19 September 2021).

Quan, R. (2002). Establishing China’s Environmental Justice Study Models. Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, 14(3), 461-487.

Zhao, X. (2021). How ‘public’ is communicated in China’s public diplomacy: communicating environmental justice in the case of air pollution in China. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 14(2), 65-94.

To find out more about Dr Zhao and her research area, please visit Dr Zhao’s Staff Profile Page.

Some of Dr Zhao’s articles which are available open access include the following:

Does China’s outward focused journalism engage a constructive approach? A qualitative content analysis of Xinhua News Agency’s English news

Place, Power and the Pandemic: The Disrupted Material Settings of Television News Making During Covid-19 in an Indonesian Broadcaster

How “public” is communicated in China’s public diplomacy: Communicating environmental justice in the case of air pollution in China

A review on China’s soft power projection through its transnational media institutions: Conveying discourse of economic responsibilities in media ‘going-out’

October 24, 2022

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis contributed to the EU Smart Tourism Podcast LISTEN AT https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hgvIrhZOtxnSxZdXNmDrK

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Professor Dimitrios Buhalis contributed to the EU Smart Tourism Podcast

LISTEN AT https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hgvIrhZOtxnSxZdXNmDrK

In this third episode of the EU Smart Tourism Podcast, we explore the digital space in smart tourism and begin to ask: what drives this digital move, how does it find implementation and what does this mean for the future of European tourism?

Misa Labarile, Policy Officer at the European Commission, DG GROW discusses with past winners of the competition as well as cities within the EU Smart Tourism network about how digitalisation can enhance and drive innovation in the tourism industry.

Speakers:

Prof. Dimitrios Buhalis: expert on digitalisation and smart tourism at Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Dejan Ristić: Project Manager at Ljubljana Tourism (Slovenia)

Jukka Punamaki: Senior Tourism Advisor, Helsinki (Finland)

Host: Misa Labarile, Policy Officer of the European Commission, DG GROW

Professor Dimitrios Buhalis contributes to the EU Smart Tourism Podcast LISTEN

October 24, 2022

It’s INTERNATIONAL OPEN ACCESS WEEK!!

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Yes it’s here again that joyful time of the year when we highlight and discuss all things open access. First up is a quick reminder…

There are two complementary mechanisms for achieving open access to research.

The first mechanism is for authors to publish in open-access journals that do not receive income through reader subscriptions.

The second is for authors to deposit their refereed journal article in an open electronic archive.

These two mechanisms are often called the ‘gold’ and ‘green’ routes to open access:

Gold – This means publishing in a way that allows immediate access to everyone electronically and free of charge. Publishers can recoup their costs through a number of mechanisms, including through payments from authors called article processing charges (APCs), or through advertising, donations or other subsidies.
Green – This means depositing the final peer-reviewed research output in an electronic archive called a repository. Repositories can be run by the researcher’s institution, but shared or subject repositories are also commonly used. Access to the research output can be granted either immediately or after an agreed embargo period.

Article first published – http://www.hefce.ac.uk/rsrch/oa/whatis/

To encourage all academic communities to consider open access publishing, Authors Alliance has produced a comprehensive ‘Understanding Open Access‘ guide which addresses common open access related questions and concerns and provides real-life strategies and tools that authors can use to work with publishers, institutions, and funders to make their works more widely accessible to all.

To access and download the guide, please follow this link – http://authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/Documents/Guides/Authors%20Alliance%20-%20Understanding%20Open%20Access.pdf

More information on Open Access Week and activities happening across the world can be found here –https://www.openaccessweek.org/

October 24, 2022

BU International Open Access Week – Open for Climate Justice – 24 to 30 October 2022

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Join us this week in celebrating the 2022 International Open Access Week at BU. Open Access Week 2022 is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around how open can be a means for climate justice.

There will be a series of exciting communications and events happening across the week, so read on to find out more!

Daily blog posts on the Research Blog highlighting the different elements relating to open access at BU and why it matters!
An OA Daily Riddle competition will be launched on each day on the Research Blog; with a chance at winning a £20 Amazon voucher!
Featured articles by BU academics on the theme of climate justice
An online OA information session jointly organised by RDS and BURO on 24th October (Monday) at 2pm – Click here to join the session!
Available templates for BU staff to download and use as teaching template to highlight the International Open Access Week and what it means at BU

Open Access Week is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge with the advancement of policy changes and the importance of social issues affecting people around the world. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions and organizations around the world. So do join in to celebrate this important week and to make a difference!

The official hashtag of Open Access Week is #OAweek.

October 17, 2022

BU International Open Access Week – Open for Climate Justice – 24 to 30 October 2022

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Join us next week in celebrating the 2022 International Open Access Week at BU. Open Access Week 2022 is an opportunity to join together, take action, and raise awareness around how open can be a means for climate justice.

There will be a series of exciting communications and events happening across the week, so read on to find out more!

Daily blog posts on the Research Blog highlighting the different elements relating to open access at BU and why it matters!
An OA Daily Riddle competition will be launched on each day on the Research Blog; with a chance at winning a £20 Amazon voucher!
Featured articles by BU academics on the theme of climate justice
An online OA information session jointly organised by RDS and BURO on 24th October (Monday) at 2pm – Click here to join the session!
Available templates for BU staff to download and use as teaching template to highlight the International Open Access Week and what it means at BU

Open Access Week is an invaluable chance to connect the global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge with the advancement of policy changes and the importance of social issues affecting people around the world. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions and organizations around the world. So do join in to celebrate this important week and to make a difference!

The official hashtag of Open Access Week is #OAweek.

September 26, 2022

Screening and Discussion of Indian Space Dreams with Planetary Scientist Dr Hugh Mortimer – Wed 5th Oct – 5.30pm

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On behalf of the BU Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice, this is an invitation to join us at a film screening of Indian Space Dreams, followed by a Q&A discussion on 5^th October at 5.30pm in the new Poole Gateway building on Talbot Campus.

Film trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-kkgf3fpc

The film was produced and directed by Dr Sue Sudbury and has been screened on TV in 98 countries. It is a wonderfully inspirational film and was long-listed for the Best International Feature Documentary Academy Award.

The event begins at 5.30pm with a drinks reception, with Prof John Vinney introducing Dr Sue Sudbury and our special guest speaker and discussant, Dr Hugh Mortimer – the renowned space scientist:

https://www.ukri.org/news-and-events/responding-to-climate-change/our-climate-pioneers/hugh-mortimer/

At 6.30 pm we will watch the film (77 minutes), followed by a short Q and A with Sue and Hugh Mortimer, with Dr Chindu Sreedharan, as Chair.

To join this screening, please do register a place through this link: https://indianspacedreams22.eventbrite.co.uk

Places are limited so please book asap!

We look forward to seeing you there.

Candida Yates and Sue Sudbury (Co-Directors of the Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice (CESJ))

September 5, 2022

UN SDGs now on BRIAN and Staff Profile Pages

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In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.

BRIAN, Bournemouth Research Information and Networking system now allows you to record up to 4 of the most relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals which your work contributes towards. This information from BRIAN will also be displayed on your staff profile page and it will look like this –

To record this information on BRIAN, log into your BRIAN account and choose to add a new “Professional activity”,

Once you have clicked on “+add new”, you will be presented with a menu box. Choose “UN Sustainable Development Goals” as highlighted –

On the next page, you are then given the option to select from the drop down menu, up to 4 UN Sustainable Development Goals which your work contributes towards. Don’t forget to click “save” when you have finished.

To have this newly added information displayed on your staff profile page, you can either choose to wait for the overnight auto-refresh process for the information to be drawn from BRIAN to populate the staff profile page; or you can instantly refresh your staff profile page manually by scrolling to the bottom of your profile page and click on “Refresh now”

For more help and information, please email BRIAN@bournemouth.ac.uk

July 12, 2022

10 Tips for Getting Started as a Peer Reviewer

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Are you thinking about being a peer reviewer but aren’t sure where to start? Are you concerned that you don’t have enough experience to review a manuscript for a journal?

Click on the link below to find out the ten easy things you can do to prepare to be a reviewer and put yourself in a position to start reviewing. Some of these are so simple you can do them in the next five minutes. Get started now!

10 tips for getting started as a peer reviewer

April 19, 2022

BRIAN is unavailable for use this week

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Please be aware that there will be a planned upgrade to BRIAN taking place this week, starting 19th April, during which time BRIAN will be unavailable for use. The planned upgrade is expected to take place all week, therefore we are hoping for BRIAN to resume running again by 25th April 2022 (if not earlier).

For all BRIAN related queries, please email BRIAN@bournemouth.ac.uk

April 13, 2022

BRIAN will be unavailable for use next week

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Please be aware that there will be a planned upgrade to BRIAN taking place next week, 19th April, during which time BRIAN will be unavailable for use. The planned upgrade is expected to take place all week, therefore we are hoping for BRIAN to resume running again by 25th April 2022 (if not earlier).

For all BRIAN related queries, please email BRIAN@bournemouth.ac.uk

April 12, 2022

BRIAN upgrade feature – add new items

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Similar to the current system, after BRIAN has been upgraded, you can add new items for each different element by clicking on the “add” button under each tile –

This function is also similar for the “Grants” and “Records of Impact” tiles.

There will be a planned upgrade to BRIAN taking place beginning the week commencing 19th April, during which time BRIAN will be unavailable for use. The planned upgrade is expected to take place all week, therefore we are hoping for BRIAN to resume running again by 25th April 2022 (if not earlier).

For all BRIAN related queries, please email BRIAN@bournemouth.ac.uk

April 11, 2022

BRIAN upgrade feature – the publications tile

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As mentioned last week, after the BRIAN upgrade, you can look forward to seeing the different elements within your BRIAN account represented by its own ’tile’ on the homepage –

Let’s now take a closer look at the “Publications” tile –

By default, your “Publications” tile shows you a condensed summary list view of your publications within your BRIAN account.

When you click on the right arrow key, you will then get to see the ‘graph’ view instead –

Clicking on the left arrow key will take you back to the list view. As mentioned, the publication “list” view is the default setting within your account; however, you can change the default view to “graph” if you wish, by clicking on the “configure homepage” option within the drop-down menu underneath your profile –

And by clicking on “graph” as shown below –

There will be a planned upgrade to BRIAN taking place beginning the week commencing 19th April, during which time BRIAN will be unavailable for use. The planned upgrade is expected to take place all week, therefore we are hoping for BRIAN to resume running again by 25th April 2022 (if not earlier).

Do stay tuned for more exciting new features from the BRIAN upgrade!

For all BRIAN related queries, please email BRIAN@bournemouth.ac.uk

April 11, 2022

Publish with Six PLOS journals for FREE

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Starting 1 April 2022, all BU corresponding authors will no longer need to pay the Article Processing Charge (APC) for publishing with PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Digital Health, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS ONE and PLOS Pathogens, due to the JISC PLOS flat fee agreement that Bournemouth University has signed up to.

In order to benefit from this agreement, it is important that you properly self-identify during the submission process to be recognised as eligible for this agreement.

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If you wish to find out more about this publishing deal, you can visit this FAQ – and ensure that you expand the PLOS Institutional Partnerships menu and select PLOS Flat Fee Agreements –

For all related enquiries, please email OpenAccess@bournemouth.ac.uk

Category / BU Challenges

As of 1st April 2022, the new UKRI Open Access Policy became effective.

This policy applies to publications which need to acknowledge funding from UKRI or any of its councils. This includes funding from:

The policy applies to the following types of publication, when they are required to acknowledge funding from UKRI or any of its constituent councils

For research articles, these are the key things you need to know –

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On behalf of the BU Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and Social Justice, this is an invitation to join us at a film screening of Indian Space Dreams, followed by a Q&A discussion on 5^th October at 5.30pm in the new Poole Gateway building on Talbot Campus.