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The results of the OpenUP Blog Competition for young researchers & students
The OpenUP Blog Competition for young researchers & students was held in the context of OpenUP Final Conference "Opening UP the Research Life Cycle: Innovative Methods for Open Science", 5 & 6 September 2018
We are pleased to announce the winners of the OpenUP Blog Competition for young researchers & students!
The OpenUP Blog Competition for young researchers & students was held in the context of OpenUP Final Conference "Opening UP the Research Life Cycle: Innovative Methods for Open Science", 5 & 6 September 2018. The submission rate was very high, there were 19 very good proposals that suggested resourceful ideas to make scholarly research outputs openly available (competition call).
Our conclusions
Open Access/Open Science uptake is increasing every day. Young audiences, who are digitally born, are more adaptive to new practices and already know about OA and OS. Young scholars have become increasingly interested in learning more about alternative methods in Review - Assess - Disseminate.
Meet the winning articles
A few words on our winners...
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Marcel Knöchelmann
Marcel Knöchelmann is a doctoral student at the Department of Information Studies at University College London. His work focuses on scholarly authorship, the economics of publishing, and the history and philosophy of the humanities. More on his work can be found on his blog lepublikateur.de.
Marcel has extensive practical experience in scholarly communication through work at John Wiley & Sons, De Gruyter, The Academic Book of the Future project, Knowledge Unlatched, and the International Arthurian Society, among others. Before his university studies, Marcel completed a three-year apprenticeship as a bookseller at an independent bookshop in Germany. He currently works as a teaching assistant at UCL and as a freelance editor and consultant.
Marcel received a 2016 SSP International Fellowship, was the 2015 John Wiley & Sons scholar, and holds a scholarship from the German National Merit Foundation. His research is funded by the AHRC UK through the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP).
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Victor Venema
Victor Venema is climatologist and works on the homogenisation of climate observations. His main blog is Variable Variability, but he blogs about grassroots journals at Grassroots Publishing. The easiest introduction to the concept of a grassroots journal may be the example journal on homogenisation.
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Nicolás Alessandroni
Nicolás Alessandroni is a PhD candidate in Psychology (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain). His current research is about the cognitive development of concepts during early childhood and how it relates to educational practices in the Infant School (0-1 classroom). He holds a master's degree in Cognitive Psychology and Learning (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain / Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)), a degree in Psychology, and a degree in Music (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina). He is part of the teaching and research staff of the Faculty of Psychology of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has published books, book chapters and articles in different journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychology (Faculty of Psychology, UNLP) and Epistemus, Journal of Studies in Music, Cognition and Culture (SACCoM, Argentina).
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Dasapta Erwin Irawan
Dasapta Erwin Irawan is a researcher and lecturer in hydrogeology. He works at Applied Geology Research Group, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. His research mainly focused at multivariate statistics in hydrochemistry. Aside to his main activity, he also keenly work on promoting open science to Indonesian scholars. He founded the INArxiv and had actively contributed his thoughts to international initiatives, such as: OpenScienceMOOC and Open Science Framework.
Congratulations to all of our winners and thank you again to everyone who participated in the OpenUP Blog Competition for young researchers & students! The winners will have the opportunity to present their idea to Brussels to the OpenUP Final Conference. We are looking forward to fruitful and discussions and debates!
