Jack Spaapen, Vice Chair of ENRESSH, asks ‘What science is worth for us’ on the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences blog spot here:
http://www.ideas-idees.ca/blog/what-science-worth-us
Watch this blog for more postings from ENRESSH and to see how things are moving in Canada
Michael Ocshner presented ENRESSH work group one at the “Governance of Science: Quality First – How to Use Individual Research Metrics Responsibly” workshop at Herrenhausen Palace Hanover on 25. July. The workshop was organised by the VolkswagenStiftung and Leopoldina – http://www.leopoldina.org/en/about-us/cooperations/volkswagen-foundation/
An interesting perspective on why blindly rushing at OA for books, or anything, without thought is potentially bad for academia
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/open-access-monograph-dash-could-lead-us-off-a-cliff#comment-19353
International Workshop on Monolingualism or Multiligualism in Science
Universidad del Rosario
Auditorio Jockey Club (Carrera 6, # 15-18) Bogotá, Colombia
November 14-15, 2017
English version will follow
A two-day international conference on how social sciences and humanities
can address societal challenges and optimise societal well-being
ENRESSH members are busy, we thought you might be interested in these:
Jack Spaapen & Leonie van Drooge: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10961-017-9607-7?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst
Elea Giménez-Toledo, Jorge Mañana-Rodríguez, and Gunnar Sivertsen: ‘Scholarly book publishing’ in the journal Research Evaluation (https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvx007).
Linda Sīle, Raf Guns, Gunnar Sivertsen and Tim Engels ‘European databases and repositories for social sciences and humanities output’ (https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.5172322),
The Research Council have conducted an evaluation of the entire field of the humanities. Research and teaching activities are viewed in an overall context, and special focus is placed on the societal impact of the research carried out.
See here for full details: https://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Article/Evaluation_of_humanities_research_in_Norway/1254012498362
There are five STSMs foreseen this time. Dead line for applying is the end of August.
Link to the call text: https://enressh.eu/stsm/
Please, feel free to spread this information.
Do not hesitate to ask Mimi Urbanc if you have further questions.
The ‘Prague Manifesto’, the ENRESSH position paper on SSH research evaluation, is now available: Evaluation_of_SSH_final
This major position paper grew from discussions during the Stakeholder meeting in Prague in January 2017. Since then, the ex-manifesto has undergone much discussion, and became a series of recommendations for improving evaluation protocols in the SSH. Based on the observation of best practices, the paper does not promote any national system in particular, but intends to underline principles which need to be taken into consideration when designing and applying evaluation protocols for the SSH. Offering an extended version is one of the mail aims of the Action.
