The article by Claudia Leeb, entitled “Mystified Consciousness: Rethinking the Rise of the Far Right with Marx and Lacan” and published in Open Cultural Studies on November 10, 2018, uses the theory of psychoanalysis to explain why white working-classes in the United States and elsewhere […]
Open Access journal publishing appears to be a good match for rapidly developing, cutting edge and interdisciplinary scientific fields, such as climate and energy research, especially due to their potential to address cross-border issues, such as the environmental effects of fuel production. A Blog Article […]
Though interpretations of Open Science usually involve discussions of Open Access and associated initiatives, such as the Plan S, in this context the articulation of Open Source’s importance is predominantly prefatory. Nevertheless, as examples of the deployment of Open Access projects on the basis of […]
Though gender diversity and women’s involvement in science can be expected to contribute to knowledge creation and scientific discoveries, female scientists remain a minority in multiple scholarly fields, such as those related to science, technology and mathematics, both as authors of scientific articles and as […]
That Google launches a separate search engine for Open Access data sets attests to the increasing importance of Open Access for scientists and the customized search portals that connect between researchers and the content that Open Access repositories store. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. […]
The ideas of Karl Marx on temporality, as expressed in, among other works, The German Ideology, co-authored with Friedrich Engels and recently re-published in German by De Gruyter, are critically examined in a recent article by Mieke Bal published in Open Cultural Studies in June […]
Though scientific databases, e.g., the Web of Science, make an extensive use of citation indices, such as the Social Sciences Citation Index, into which Open Access journals are increasingly included, whether these journal and paper indices are effective may be less certain than assumed, as […]
Published in a recent issue of Open Theology, an article by Kristóf Oltvai, a graduate student at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, indicates that, upon a close reading, the apostolic exhortations of Jorge Bergoglio, the current, 266th Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church, […]
Code Ocean, an Open Source data and algorithm sharing platform, assists large journal and book publishers to improve the reproducibility and transparency of scientific research results. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. Global publishers, such as Taylor & Francis in January 2018, have been partnering […]
Prof. Toby Miller, the Editor-in-Chief of Open Cultural Studies, discusses how this Open Access, per-review journal has evolved since its launch, its positioning as a mega-journal in its academic field and its prospects in the years to come. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. The […]