The Importance of Promoting Digital Literacy in Higher Education

Santos, Ana Isabel; Serpa, Sandro

doi:10.11114/ijsss.v5i6.2330

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“…Senior faculty members play a key role in advising their younger and unexperienced colleagues on the publishing process (Burggren et al, 2018;Liyanapathirana, 2019;Watson, 2019). Furthermore, contrary to what could be expected, it may happen that many university students, even at the graduate level, are not very familiar or particularly concerned with these quality issues of scientific publication (Liyanapathirana, 2019;Santos & Serpa, 2017). Cress and Sarwer (2019) argue that education is critical in preventing predatory journals to thrive at the expense of researchers that need to publish, and the traditional publishers have to reaffirm, based on their reputation and knowledge, their hegemony in the scholarly publishing field.…”

Section: Preparation Of the Authorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Publishing at Any Cost? The Need for the Improvement of the Quality of Scholarly Publications

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At a time of great dynamism among publishers of scientific publications, with the inevitability of Open Access and the ease of publishing online at low cost, it is possible to find publications with different levels of scientific respectability. In this context, the improvement of the quality of scholarly publications emerges as a critical element for publishers, authors and academic institutions, as well as for society in general. This opinion piece discusses Open Access journals with different levels of quality, focusing on the following quality-promoting measures: blacklists, author’s preparation, and institutional prevention. The analysis allows concluding that the open review will be one of the key elements in the process of clarification and promotion of the level of quality and consequent scientific respectability of each of the Journals, of the thousands currently existing, a number that is likely to increase.

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Section: Preparation Of the Authorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Publishing at Any Cost? The Need for the Improvement of the Quality of Scholarly Publications

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Ferreira²,

Santos³

et al. 2020

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“…The use of technology, also by the participants, such as computer applications (apps) and online social networks, entails that their digital literacy is enough, so that this digital literacy interaction is fruitful (Carr, 2016;Carr & Ludvigsen, 2017;Santos & Serpa, 2017;Gavilanes et al, 2015;Sousa & Clark, 2017). However, it can raise ethical questions and issues related to intellectual property rights, as reported by Ghose, Warren, Raison and Dasgupta (2018) on the online dissemination of new data, such as, for instance, slide shows by non-presenting participants that were being presented for the first time at the conference.…”

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Virtual and Face-To-Face Academic Conferences: Comparison and Potentials

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2019

Journal of Educational and Social Research

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Academic conferences have always been privileged spaces and moments for the dissemination of new scientific knowledge, as well as for social interaction and for the establishment and development of social networks among scientists. However, the virtual dimension of conferences, in which individuals are not physically present in the same place, begins to emerge as an increasingly used possibility, which implies a different framing of these scientific events. This paper seeks to comparatively analyse several models of academic conferences, putting forth their advantages, limitations and potentials. Furthermore, it also seeks to reasonably envision the importance and challenges to be faced in the near future. The analysis allows concluding that virtual conferences tend to take on an increasingly central role in this type of scientific dissemination, but without totally relegating the conference mode with face-to-face interaction. Moreover, there may be conferences that emerge as a hybrid between these two types of conferences, in an attempt to provide their main benefits to the various participants. However, the insufficient literature on this topic calls for the need to develop and deepen studies in this area that allow understanding this academic and social, but also economic phenomenon, in its broader implications.

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“…This difficulty in being able to consciously deal with the presence of technology, namely in the context of social media, is added to other hindrances, such as the issue of digital literacy (Santos & Serpa, 2017). This is justified by the fact that -People who lack the knowledge and skills of information technology cannot compete in the current model of globalization and techno-industrial society.…”

Section: Alienation and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%