Faculty Attitudes Towards Article Processing Charges for Open Access Articles

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are significant charges for publishing Open Access (OA), and have no accepted standards for authors to source the funds or negotiate the charges. While there is a growing body of literature exploring academic authors’ perceptions of OA publishing, there is little data on how authors pay for APCs. The aim of this study was to examine how authors prepare for and fund APCs, as well as their perceptions of these charges. In early 2021 the authors deployed a survey to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty members via email. The survey was completed by 310 faculty, representing 10.6% of the active researcher population. Our findings show that about 50% of respondents include anticipated APC costs in grant applications, and that 16% of faculty will pay APCs using personal funds. Questions evaluating perception of APCs show that while the majority of respondents support the concept of Open Access, most believe that charges are too high and should not fall on authors.

The scent of life: Foreword from the Editors

This special issue of Zootaxa is published in honor of Dr. Jocélia Grazia (Fig. 1) from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, one of the world’s most respected and influential active taxonomists in Heteroptera. Though she retired from her long-time position as a Full Professor, away from undergraduate classes and administrative duties, Jocélia is still an active researcher and passionate about studying true bugs. An intense conviction she passes to her many students and becomes evident in her publications. If there is one word to define Jocélia Grazia, it is energy. Even the most novice and inexperienced student perceives the enthusiasm and dedication Jocélia faces from the small bureaucratic problems through the most challenging scientific questions.

From Analytical Аnthropology to Generative Anthropology

This article discusses the role of the technical in V.A. Podoroga's project of studying the literature worlds as archives of human experience. On the level of content, among many other components of these worlds he distinguished working and non-working machines, “gizmos” and various optical devices, including the mechanic eye, camera, mounting, etc. Formally, the action of these machines can be assessed as alienation, though in the context of modern media studies and exploration of the perspectives of anthropology, they can also be described as a problematic contact zone between the human and non-human, with a bias towards breaking the already historically disrupted bodily-affective interaction with the “outside”. Studies of Andrei Platonov's show the most radical interaction with the technical, in this case causing dissimilation of the human. However, even for this “inhuman” material, Podoroga chooses a form of human-measured approximation and distancing, which allows defending the position of an active researcher, observer, anthropologist. His efforts produce a kind of reconstruction, which at a certain time distance reveals the “seams”, “folds”, “cuts”, “plexuses”, “gaps” that formed at once the experience of the body and experience of writing. This is how the components of literature worlds are extracted, and from them “a picture of the universe can be deduced”. Although an external position to technics is considered to be the only guarantee of the human, even if it is strange, symptomatic, seizure-like, a different understanding of the technical is possible. Without claiming that a “machine” can assemble components in the absence of the observer's (reader's) comprehension ability, it seems nevertheless possible to relate the technical to more general principles: the methods of dispersion and gathering that form the form, the principles of intervalization and binding the heterogeneous, and most importantly, the principle of generating conditions for detecting an event. Then it will be necessary to clarify the relationship between techne and literature in the broader sense of poiesis, in the process of which elements can be formed from the indivisible “compressed”.

ON THE PERSPECTIVES OF CREATING A DICTIONARY OF THE BESERMAN DIALECT OF THE UDMURT LANGUAGE (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF T. I. TEPLYASHINA)

The Besermans are a small people of the north-west of Udmurtia who speak one of the dialects of the Udmurt language. In recent years, the Beserman dialect has become the object of close attention of linguists. The results of these field studies were embodied in the publication of two dictionaries, a monograph and separate articles. An active researcher of the Beserman language was T. I. Teplyashina back in the 60s of the last century. She published a monograph primarily devoted to the description of the phonetics and morphology of the Beserman dialect. However, better part of her card-file with Beserman words, expressions and examples of their using in speech remained unused. This card-file is a unique linguistic heritage, representing the Beserman language of informants who were born at the beginning of the 20th and even at the end of the 19th century. It is waiting for processing of materials and creating a dictionary. In this article, a small fragment of a future dictionary is given as an example.

Features of Postgraduate Programs’ Reforming as an Issue for Scientific and Pedagogical Discussion

The article discusses the problems of Russian postgraduate studies improving, the goals and objectives of postgraduate training. The peculiarities of reforming the national postgraduate school, general and specific principles and forms of its improvement are considered. The author dwells on a highly specialized orientation of postgraduate training’s educational component. The emphasis is on the need of its restructuring in order to deepen the training of postgraduate students in the beginnings of their researcher profession. The article makes the case for establishing variable postgraduate training, which means focusing of the structure and content of postgraduate training on different types of graduates’ professional employment. In order to improve the quality of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel training, it is necessary to examine the possibilities of higher education resources to be integrated with the scientific potential of Russian Academy of Sciences research institutes. A brief description of the international experience in the field of scientists and teachers training is presented. A two-level model of postgraduate program is proposed. The postgraduate studies at the first level ensure obtaining the primary professional researcher qualification in industrial orientation, while at the second level, the task of transforming the graduate student into an independent active researcher is solved.

A day in the life of a Higher Education lecturer

David Smith is a Reader in Biochemistry at Sheffield Hallam University and a National Teaching Fellow. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has received the Sheffield Hallam Vice Chancellor's Award for Inspirational Teaching, as well as the Royal Society of Biology Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award 2019. David has been an active researcher in the field of biosciences for over 20 years, focusing on the molecular basis of neurodegeneration in diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. He completed a PhD at the University of Leeds, before working as a postdoctoral researcher first at the University of Melbourne and then at the University of Leeds. Lorenza Giannella (Training Manager, Biochemical Society) spoke with him about his work.

OBITUARY: Eric Paul McElravy, November 28, 1946-August 27, 2014

Eric P. McElravy, an active researcher in Trichoptera and other groups of aquatic insects for 4 decades, died in San Leandro, California, on August 27, 2014. He was born on November 28, 1946, and raised in Ohio. He completed a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree at Kent State University, and then spent 10 years as a high school science teacher before earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Entomology from the University of California, Berkeley. Following this, Eric worked as an environmental consultant on various projects throughout California.

Científico, artista y coleccionista: Semblanza sobre la vida y obra del Dr. Yoav Bashan

This semblance is a post mortem tribute that the Mexican Society of Soil Science A. C. (SMCS), concedes to Dr. Yoav Bashan, one of the most prominent researches of soil microorganisms. Dr. Bashan was born on October 12, 1951 in Haifa, Israel and died on September 19, 2018 in Auburn, Alabama, U.S.A. He was an active researcher of the interaction among plant growth promoting bacteria, plants of anthropogenic importance and the environment. Due to his hard work, in 2013, he was awarded by the SMCS, A.C. with the “Award for Merit in Soil Biology Dr. Jesús Caballero Mellado”. Two little-known facets of Dr. Bashan were his passion for painting and the hobby for collecting handicrafts. His scientific legacy is recorded in the annals of the Terra Latinoamericana journal, the official magazine of scientific outreach of the SMCS, A. C., as well as many journals around the world (Figure 1).

RESEARCH TRENDS IN HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING

This paper reviews the hydrological modelling research trends as published in the recent years. Three-round literature review technique was used to study journal papers published that are related to the hydrological modelling. The published papers were searched by using Web of Sciences engine. The first and second round were to examine the published papers as a general perspective in a wide range of hydrological modelling through title and keywords whereas the third round was to establish 139 papers as target publications through abstract and main texts. 139 target papers were analyzed in terms of (1) journals that produced two or more target papers, (2) research origin, (3) authors, (4) research center and (5) most cited papers. The score matric was used to rank these items. The results of analysis produced (1) 6 journals target papers, (2) United states got the highest score with 27.71 score for research origin, (3) Keith Beven got the highest score 8.03 for an active researcher, (4) Lancaster University got the highest score 9.93 for research center and (5) Keith Beven and Andrew Binley had the most cited papers.

Register in Systemic Functional Linguistics*

Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen elaborates on the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) approach to register in this contribution to the inaugural issue of Register Studies. He is Chair Professor of the Department of English at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he pursues a scholarly agenda that includes developing the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics and applying it to text and discourse analysis, functional grammar, issues related to language evolution and typology, and comprehensive descriptive models of register. Throughout his career, Matthiessen has made major contributions to SFL theories and methods. Among his major works is Lexicogrammatical Cartography: English Systems (1995, International Language Sciences Publishers). More than any other scholar, Matthiessen has expounded on Halliday’s early ideas on register and applied SFL theory to describing models of register variation. He remains an active researcher in the area of register studies which includes his registerial cartography – the comprehensive and systematic description of the registers in a language. Matthiessen’s work has left an indelible mark on the theory and systematic study of patterns of register in language use.