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Online and connected
journal contribution
posted on 2010-06-17, 11:14 authored by Eddie NormanA colleague recently forwarded this extract from PhDDesign
(a Jiscmail discussion list concerning design
research):
Friends,
Those interested in interdisciplinarity will want to read
the latest issue of the Journal of Research Practice
http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp
If you have not yet had a chance to browse this journal,
I recommend a visit. This is a broad-ranging,
international open-access journal with a rich variety of
articles that shed light on many aspects of research
and research practice.
Highly recommended with best wishes for the New
Year.
Ken Friedman
If you are reading this online and click on the above link,
you will find a number of fascinating articles concerning
‘Crossing the Boundaries’, ‘Reframing the Structures’ and
‘Rethinking the Questions’. At the risk of stating the
obvious, this is possible because the researchers have
made their work available online and it is an open-access
journal. If, like me, you have an instinctive attraction to the
idea of open-access to research findings, then you might
want to find out more about the open-access movement.
The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) was funded by the
Canadian Government and provides open source software
for the management of open conference and journal
systems developed by the University of British Columbia
and Simon Fraser University. Details of the project can be
found at http://pkp.sfu.ca/ from which site the software
can also be downloaded. There is a sample list of some of
the over 900 journals in 10 languages that are using the
open journal system software (http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojsjournals).
Clearly, I’m partly just putting the links in
‘because I can’, but there is tremendous potential for the
publication of research findings in being able to connect
papers to some of their sources.
History
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Citation
NORMAN, E.W.L., 2008. Online and connected. Design and Technology Education: an International Journal, 13 (1), pp. 3-5Publisher
© Design and Technology AssociationVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publication date
2008Notes
This is an article from the serial, Design and Technology Education: an International Journal [© DATE]. It is also available at: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/DATE/ISSN
2040-8633Language
- en