ContentsAcknowledgements vii Foreword ixPart One 1.1 Welcome to the world of academic publishing 1.2 What exactly is open access anyway? A note on licensing 1.3 Why OA? Reason 1: It's the principle Reason 2: It makes economic sense Reason 3: It makes research more accessible -which benefits society Reason 4: Open access makes the research process faster and more efficient Reason 5: Open access improves the quality and trustability of research Reason 6: It's in the public interest Reason 7: It makes research more inclusive Reason 8: It allows for inclusiveness and connectivity Reason 9: It helps the Global South Reason 10: Academic research was always intended to be open 1.4 Academic publishing: a brief history History repeating Publishing becomes big business 1.5 The internet and OA: the early pioneers The European campaign A new era for academic publishing 1.6 The Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation pave the way for OA 1.7 The Finch Report: taking OA to a political level 1.8 Brussels gets involved; the momentum picks up 1.9 Slow progress: the move towards OA stagnates Reason 1: Big business, big financial interests and demanding shareholders Hybrids: a halfway house Reason 2: Obsession with 'impact factor' Reason 3: Lip service to DORA Reason 4: Resistance to change; reluctance to take action 1.10 Time for a radical intervention Part Two2.1 The open access envoy 2.2 Forming a plan 2.3 The impact on smaller publishers 2.4 Warning bells 2.5 Gaining allies 2.6 The European tour 2.7 Support arrives from the universities 2.8 Gaining support from the younger generation of researchers 2.9 Compromises, compromises 2.10 The Coalition is born for others it was the painful task of digging through documents from several years ago to provide sources, figures or background information. Thank you for your valuable insights and patience.All the publishers mentioned in the text were contacted with a request for an interview and given the right to respond to content. A special thanks to those who chose to respond.We would especially like to thank Frederick Fenter, Lia Noce, Agata Zaza and the rest of the team at Frontiers, without whom this book would not have been possible. Frontiers paid for Rachael's time spent writing the book, but had no influence over its content or editorial direction.Finally, this book was written with the intention of prompting debate as part of the continuing conversations happening around open access, and we welcome readers' comments and observations.
highly insulating but expensive windows, optimizing the arrangement of rooftop solar panels or using rooftop vegetation to moderate demand for heating and cooling.A larger web-based version of the project that does not use the game engine allows users to see the effects of city-wide changes -such as how retrofitting 50% of all buildings in Montreal built before 1950 would affect the city's carbon footprint.The first real-world outing of the Future City Playgrounds project was Eicker's entry in Montreal's 2021 Reinventing Cities competition, run by C40, the global network of cities dedicated to addressing climate change. The competition brought together teams of architects, developers, academics and planners to design climate-friendly uses for a specific site in their city. Eicker's team used their game engine to create a redevelopment of an old factory building along Montreal's Lachine Canal, incorporating a heat-pump system that used the canal water to supply heat to the building.They earned second place, so that project will not be built. But Eicker's team repurposed their ideas to retrofit another old factory overlooking the canal. That building was given one of the first zero-carbon certificates in Montreal, but still requires carbon offsets because it uses a gas boiler. The team is working with developers to get its canal-water heat-pump system into the building. "We are basically pursuing the same idea of connecting it to the canal water," she says. "It will be exciting to see that get built in the near future."The team is working to add measures of liveability into the tool -that is, how things such as parking management, bicycle access and social spaces can make a building or neighbourhood more appealing. "Of course that is much more subjective, and much more difficult to come up with good indicators," says Eicker. But adding those aspects is essential to ensure that the sustainable cities of the future are equitable and comfortable places to live.Eicker's ultimate goal is to have a tool like Future City Playgrounds available for every development, so people in local planning meetings can get more involved in designing the evolution of their neighbourhoods. "It's more than an academic exercise, and more than a game," she says."If you want to transform the city towards the most sustainable future, it's not just about technology," Eicker says. "You need people involved. You need the participation, acceptance and social inclusion of the people living there."
teve and Deonie 'Dee' Allen's fates were sealed when their respective dogs, two kelpies, spotted each other from across a marina in Brisbane, Australia and became friends. The pair were living on boats three berths down from one another -and the rest, as they say, is history.Twenty-two years later they are happily married, with one boat, two PhDs and parallel careers as microplastic-pollution researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and the University of Birmingham, UK, respectively. The Allens, as many in the field will attest, are an infamous double-act, sharing work and hobbies, and travelling the world together for their sailing hobby and for research. They literally finish each other's sentences -and e-mails -and they are indubitable proof that yes, it really is possible to work with a romantic partner without growing to despise them.In the Allens' case, Steve says, "It means we are a complete mobile research unit.
In this picture, I'm face to face with an anaesthetized 250-kilogram male grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), which was caught near Sparwood and Elkford in Canada. With help from conservation inspector Joe Caravetta, who is sitting next to me, and my field technician Laura Smit, I'm putting a GPS-enabled collar on the bear so that we can track his movements.
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