Suchergebnisse

Presentation at the seminar "Scholarly journals, politics, and freedom of speech", Helsinki, 2017

In their joint effort, Kotilava, The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and The National Library of Finland support Finnish scholarly journals in their transition to immediate Open Access. This project, being a part of the Open Science and Research Initiative in Finland (ATT), proceeds via two subprojects. First, the platform for editing and publishing OA journals are improved. Second, a new consortium based funding model for Finnish OA journals will be created.Kotilava is closely related to another ATT initiative run by The National Library of Finland, TAJUA, which aims to further improve OA repository services and guidance on best practices that the National Library already provides. It also develops tools for creating metadata for research datasets. This poster focuses on the funding model of Kotilava.Most Finnish academic journals are published in print by small scholarly societies. They have limited resources to carry out all the tasks needed in turning to immediate OA. Yet, this transformation has to happen. Researchers need to see their contribution distributed as soon and as widely as possible; also the funders require the results of the research they finance to be published in OA. Currently, the most common way of funding OA journals are Article Processing Charges (APCs). The difficulties of this model are well known, two of the major ones being that an APC based model is not appropriate for small language areas like Finland nor for all fields of research. Thus, alternative funding models are discussed worldwide. Especially consortium based systems, such as the Open Library of Humanities' and Knowledge Unlatched's models, have been of interest.So far the income of Finnish journals has consisted of sales, subventions from societies, government subsidies, and, occasionally, from subsidies by research institutions. Publishing in immediate OA decreases the income from these conventional sources of funding. Clearly, the transformation to immediate OA cannot be financed without substitutive funding.Domestic journals provide the definitive forum to publish research on national culture, history and society. It is in the best interest of all the actors in the field from research organizations and funders to scholarly publishers to guarantee the existence of these publishing channels also in the future.The aims of Kotilava are:determining the criteria the journals should meet (e.g. technical and bibliographical requirements);calculating the income needed to fund immediate OA;outlining the criteria how an article based fee is determined in different types of journals;negotiating with the possible funders and the journals; andproposing a system for collecting the funds to the consortia and for distributing it to the journals with minimum transaction costs.Tasks 1, 2, and 3 are integrated with the part of Kotilava which aids the journals to meet the technical criteria of OA publishing. During summer 2016, a group of 12 journals has begun to examine the possibilities of creating the new funding model in practice.

This article reports first results from a comparative analysis of interview data from Finland, Spain and Switzerland. Within the framework of a developmental perspective on the role of media in everyday life, we focus on cross-cultural similarities and differences in how media use is related to children's and teenagers' relationships with their peers. The data revealed main ways in which media are part of young people's everyday lives: using media together with peers; as a source for common topics in play and talk; as a means of facilitating identification with groups and their values; and for the development of an individual identity. The comparison between the three countries showed that these forms of media use are central to different age groups in the three countries, influenced by different concepts of children's autonomy from adult supervision, systems of organizing leisure time activities and the structure of the school day.

Zwischenergebnisse einer vergleichenden Untersuchung von Interviewdaten aus Finnland, Spanien und der Schweiz. Innerhalb des Bezugsrahmens einer Entwicklungsperspektive bezüglich der Rolle der Medien im Alltagsleben konzentriert sich die Studie auf länderübergreifende kulturelle Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede im Hinblick auf die Beziehungen zwischen dem Mediengebrauch von Kindern und Teenagern und den Beziehungen zu ihren peer groups. Die Daten zeigen, daß Medien auf vielfältige Weise Teil des Alltagslebens junger Menschen sind: gemeinsamer Mediengebrauch mit den peers; als Quelle für gemeinsame Themen in Spiel und Gespräch; als Mittel, die Identifikation mit Gruppen und ihren Werten zu erleichtern; und schließlich für die Entwicklung einer individuellen Identität. Der Vergleich zwischen den drei Ländern zeigt, daß diese Formen der Mediennutzung von zentraler Bedeutung für die unterschiedlichen Altersgruppen in den drei Ländern sind. Sie werden beeinflusst durch unterschiedliche Konzepte von kindlicher Autonomie von der Aufsicht durch Erwachsene, die Systeme, nach denen Freizeitaktivitäten organisiert werden und die Struktur des schulischen Alltags. (UNübers)