Epub ‘Van Praktijkgericht Onderzoek…’ nu ook beschikbaar!

By Inte Gloerich, April 6, 2016

Het artikel dat ik in februari online plaatste is nu ook beschikbaar als epub. Deze epub is gemaakt met onze nieuwe tool, de Sausage Machine, die hybrid publishing nog toegankelijker maakt voor mensen met weinig programmeerkennis (waarvan deze epub het bewijs is). Epub: Van Praktijkgericht Onderzoek naar de Praktijk van de Professional

Article in Dutch: Van praktijkgericht onderzoek naar de praktijk van de professional

By Inte Gloerich, February 16, 2016

During the past year, I spoke with applied researchers, people that work in university libraries and creative professionals about research publishing and how it can reach professionals better. The result is this article, which deals with the consequences of the difference between academic and applied research and the informational needs of professionals. As it is [...]

From Open Access to Generally Openly Available

By Inte Gloerich, January 19, 2016

In the last weeks of the first year of this project, I am writing down the conclusions of the research. A detailed report will be available soon (in Dutch), but here is a small snap shot already. Academic publishing is currently being turned upside down under the influence of the move to Open Access publishing. The [...]

Applied Research: a Diverse Business

By Inte Gloerich, December 11, 2015

I am currently finalising this year’s research and have some findings I can share here. More specifically, I want to talk about the diverse nature of applied research and its relationship with the field. Fundamental — Practical I became aware of the diverse nature of applied research through my conversations with researchers here at the Create-IT. [...]

Delete-Me-(Not)

By Inte Gloerich, November 17, 2015

The conundrum of the well-meaning Information Professional. Privacy debates usually centre around either secret government intelligence agencies or companies that thrive on the commercialisation of personal data, like Facebook and Google. In a post-Snowden world, reasons to treat both of these types of entities with apprehension when it comes to data aren’t hard to come across. [...]

Some examples of research publishing for professionals

By Inte Gloerich, October 28, 2015

Urban Knowledge “Urban Knowledge is an open platform dedicated to the composing of an innovative and effective system of methods and techniques for urban analysis and the sustainable support of that knowledge and expertise in a knowledge platform”. (translated from http://www.urban-knowledge.nl/about) The site has a primary target audience of professional architects and urban planners. It has [...]

Purposeful tagging

By Inte Gloerich, October 7, 2015

As I focus on festival research as a case study in successful research publication to the creative industries, I have decided to explore current publication strategies in this field. In this blog post I will highlight a few of my findings. A case study in searching and finding articles Researchers Rogier Brussee, Michiel Rovers, Harry van [...]

Optimising for the field

By Inte Gloerich, September 21, 2015

The current situation Research output is published primarily in the form of academic articles or research reports. These are then distributed and archived via journals and institutional repositories like the HvA Kennisbank (sometimes freely available, other times not). Additionally, each research group supports these publications with a varying selection of blogs, social media (ResearchGate), trade magazines and popular media outings. Direct contact with [...]

Devices, Forms and Functionalities

By Inte Gloerich, September 3, 2015

In my conversations with professionals in the festival sector I asked them about the types of devices they use most often and their preferences when it comes to reading research output. The following is a short summary of my findings regarding these topics. The interviewees say that they mostly use their laptops and smartphones to [...]

How familiar are professionals with research in their field?

By Inte Gloerich, September 1, 2015

The Creative Industries are a broad and very diverse field; what do architect and fashion designers really have in common? It is for this reason that I have decided to focus my research on one of these more specific fields. As the recently established Event Lab of the Amsterdam Creative Industries Network is working hard to position [...]