Boosting Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities
A two-day international conference on how social sciences and humanities
can address societal challenges and optimise societal well-being
20-21 September 2017 in Cardiff, United Kingdom
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
Short term scientific missions.
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/
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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.
Please note that all deliverables of ENRESSH are under a Creative commons license, CC_BY_NC_ND_SA.
The International Publishers Association has issued an important manifesto on the Freedom to Publish. At a time when academic freedom is under attack even within Europe, reiterating the right to publish is vital. No publication, no evaluation.
https://www.internationalpublishers.org/freedom-to-publish/ipa-freedom-to-publish-manifesto
Research Evaluation (OUP) has just published the paper “Scholarly book publishing: its information sources for evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities” by Elea Giménez-Toledo, Jorge Mañana-Rodríguez & Gunnar Sivertsen:
Members of WG3 have recently published a freely downloadable paper on databases in Flanders:
Verleysen, F.T. & Rousseau R. (2017). How the existence of a regional bibliographic information system can help evaluators to conform to the principles of the Leiden Manifesto. Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences, 54(1), http://joemls.dils.tku.edu.tw/detail.php?articleId=54154&lang=en