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Unless current US trends in medical and health education are reversed, the lack of minorities in the nation's health work force will continue to be an ongoing contributor to the nation's racial and ethnic health disparities, a prestigious health commission has predicted.

Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology - Peace and Democracy in South Asia, Volume 1, Number 1, January 2005

An interview guide for collecting qualitative interviews from researchers in the social sciences and humanities who use images as research data. The guide covers various research activities including; project planning, data collection, analysis, writing, publishing and data sharing. The guide uses a modified version of the critical incident technique (CI) (Flanagan, 1957), prompting interviewees to describe their utilization of image data in recent research tasks.

Fig. 1: HT of F. annodutt nov.sp.

Figs. 2-4: Head with cap-like elevation (arrow, 2), antennomeres (3) and posterior part of abdomen (4) of F. annodutt nov.sp.

Early scholarly journals were published by learned societies to able scholars to communicate their research findings with other scholars within the field. The distribution of the volumes was based on trades between the societies. After the WWII the status of commercial publishers strengthened. Nowadays the majority of the scholarly journals (also those started by learned societies) are published by commercial publishers such as Elsevier, Springer etc. However, learned societies are still active in promoting their discipline and exchanging and disseminating knowledge especially nationally. This study presents preliminary results concerning the role of learned societies in scholarly publishing in Finland. Our research results will offer knowledge about the share of learned society journal and book publishers of all Finnish peer-reviewed channels and of the Finnish universities' output published in Finland in years 2011-2017. The role of learned societies is compared with commercial publishers, university presses and other types of scholarly publishers operating in Finland. We also examine the field and share of OA of learned society publications. Quantitative data for the study are collected from publication channel register of Finnish Publication Forum and VIRTA publication information service. In Finland, there are approximately 300 active learned societies of which more than half publish journals and/or book publications (monographs and edited books). Results show learned societies have a strong role in national scholarly publishing in Finland. There are in Finland a total of 55 peer-reviewed book publishers and 349 journals or book series, of which more than half are published by learned societies. Learned societies provide publication channels also for more than half of the total peer-reviewed output of universities published in Finland. In the presentation, we will show results also concerning the share of open access publications.

Aineisto koostuu tieteellisten seurojen jäsenien ja Suomessa toimivien tutkijoiden vastauksista. Aineiston keräsi Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunta (TSV) ja sillä pyrittiin saamaan selville tietoa kotimaisten ja kansainvälisten tieteellisten seurojen jäsenistöstä. Ensiksi vastaajilta kysyttiin taustatietoja, esimerkiksi ikää, sukupuolta ja työskentelyorganisaatiota. Sitten kysyttiin, mihin käyttää tai hyödyntää tieteellistä tietoa, minkä jälkeen kysyttiin kotimaisista tieteellisistä seuroista, muun muassa kuuluuko kotimaiseen tieteelliseen seuraan ja jos kyllä, niin pyydettiin nimeämään seura. Kyselyssä selvitettiin myös näkemyksiä niiltä vastaajilta, jotka eivät kuuluneet tieteelliseen seuraan. Tieteellisiin seuroihin kuuluvilta kysyttiin lisäksi, mikä motivoi tieteellisen seuran jäsenyyteen, ja mihin seuran järjestämiin toimintoihin on osallistunut. Tämän jälkeen kysyttiin kansainvälisistä tieteellisistä seuroista, esimerkiksi kuinka monen kansainvälisen seuran jäsen vastaaja on. Lopuksi vastaajilta kysyttiin tieteellisten lehtien ja kausijulkaisujen lukemisesta. Taustamuuttujia aineistossa ovat vastaajan ikä (luokiteltuna), sukupuoli, asuinpaikka (luokiteltuna), onko Suomen kansalainen, koulutustausta, työskentelyala ja organisaation tyyppi.

Early scholarly journals were published by learned societies to able scholars to communicate their research findings with other scholars within the field. The distribution of the volumes was based on trades between the societies. After the WWII the status of commercial publishers strengthened. Nowadays the majority of the scholarly journals (also those started by learned societies) are published by commercial publishers such as Elsevier, Springer etc. However, learned societies are still active in promoting their discipline and exchanging and disseminating knowledge especially nationally. This study presents preliminary results concerning the role of learned societies in scholarly publishing in Finland. Our research results will offer knowledge about the share of learned society journal and book publishers of all Finnish peer-reviewed channels and of the Finnish universities' output published in Finland in years 2011-2017. The role of learned societies is compared with commercial publishers, university presses and other types of scholarly publishers operating in Finland. We also examine the field and share of OA of learned society publications. Quantitative data for the study are collected from publication channel register of Finnish Publication Forum and VIRTA publication information service. In Finland, there are approximately 300 active learned societies of which more than half publish journals and/or book publications (monographs and edited books). Results show learned societies have a strong role in national scholarly publishing in Finland. There are in Finland a total of 55 peer-reviewed book publishers and 349 journals or book series, of which more than half are published by learned societies. Learned societies provide publication channels also for more than half of the total peer-reviewed output of universities published in Finland. In the presentation, we will show results also concerning the share of open access publications.

Recording of a live performance by the Vancouver-based musical group Ten Days Late for CiTR's Live From Thunderbird Radio Hell program, including introductions by Nardwuar the Human Serviette.

The study examined Finnish researchers' use of different printed and electronic publications in their work, such as scientific journals, articles, books, reports, and social media. The study is part of Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King's survey series launched in 1977 following the reading practices of researchers in different countries and scientific fields. Finnish data have also been collected in 2006 but this dataset has not been archived at the Finnish Social Science Data Archive. The 2016 project was partly funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. The survey charted researchers' common reading practices as well as publishing of different types of scientific articles and other publications. The way that the respondents' work time was distributed between different types of tasks was charted as well as how many publications of different types they had authored within the previous two years. It was also examined how researchers searched for information, published scientific work, and cited the work of others. Questions also covered how much time the respondents spent on reading articles, how many scientific articles and other types of publications they had read within the previous 30 days, how recent the publications that they read were, reasons for reading them, what language they were in, how they found the publications and received access, where they read the publications, which scientific field the publications represented, and how useful they considered different publication formats for their work. The significance of social media was charted with questions regarding, for instance, how important different services and tools were for their work (e.g. blogs, cloud services, institutional repositories, academic online communities, reference management software). The respondents were also asked about how important different features of electronic publications were (e.g. compatibility and readability on different devices, possibility to share publications, advanced navigation features, global language support, possibility to embed audio into publications). Background variables included scientific field, job title, age, and type of workplace.