AuthorRaman Ganguly

Episode 1: The Anchor Institution with Prof. Ellen Hazelkorn Our latest Epistemicast mini-series explores our universities’ integration with their local (non-academic) community and broader civic society – often termed “Third Mission”. Taking our lead from our sponsor’s annual PHAIDRAcon conference, we are looking at: Connecting Scholar and Citizen. In this first of two episodes we dive...

This last episode in our series introducing the Publish Review Curate (PRC) model looks in more detail at new and existing methods for curating academic output. As we explore ways to improve on the closed, binary process of journal acceptance or rejection, this final stage in our PRC journey takes on some weighty topics. From upending the way academic careers and output are evaluated, through to...

The traditional academic publishing system evolved in an era of printing presses and cadence-based journals. The Publish Review Curate (PRC) model offers a way to finally drag this system into the age of an open, collaborative, real-time Internet. PRC not only turns the traditional publishing model on its head, by changing the nature and dynamics of scholarly discourse, it has the potential to...

The traditional academic publishing system evolved in an era of printing presses and cadence-based journals. The Publish Review Curate (PRC) model offers a way to finally drag this system into the age of an open, collaborative, real-time Internet. PRC not only turns the traditional publishing model on its head, by changing the nature and dynamics of scholarly discourse, it has the potential to...

Challenging Publishing Monopolies and Opening Up Scholarly Communication Epistemicast explores the future of the digital Academic Repository, its growing role at the centre of Open Science and broader Open Academia, and its potential to help facilitate new, more open alternatives to the closed monopolies of traditional academic publishing. In conversation with the renowned research data...

In this episode, we discuss the InSituEx research agenda, and how Simon is developing this as an open source toolkit allowing others to explore, adapt and evolve the digital multispective experience developed in Campus Medius. We get to the centre of Simon’s current thinking and enter into a discussion on how art, literature, the humanities, and the study of these subjects has so much more to...

In this next series of interviews, Epistemicast speaks with Simon Ganahl (Mag. Dr. Dr. phil.), about his pioneering work in the realm of Digital Humanities. We explore how, in contrast to more traditional approaches that seek to bring more digital, scientific and numerical methods to the humanities, Simon is championing humanities students and scholars to use their knowledge and understanding of...

This short edition of Epistemicast revisits our archive to highlight parts of a previous interview with Associate Professor Devan Ray Donaldson around his 2022 paper on data sharing and research data management in the Journal Nature. In particular, we thought it was well worth redrawing attention to the Rubric which Donaldson and his colleague Joshua Koepke developed to help research scientists...

Continuing our exploration into the life of Aaron Swartz, Epistemicast has been lucky enough to grab an interview with Aaron’s friend, early couch-surfing host and tireless fellow activist Cory Doctorow. A New York Times best-selling author, we explored Cory’s own views on the world of Free and Open Source Software, Open Access and Open Academia, as well as getting some touching personal insights...

In this episode of Epistemicast we dive into the inspirational legacy of Aaron Swartz. A visionary entrepreneur who co-founded and sold Reddit by age 20, Swartz’s true passion lay in harnessing the web’s potential for humanity. Among his many contributions to open source and free culture, he was instrumental in shaping the technical framework for Creative Commons and the RSS web feed...