Poster Session (Asynchronous)
The Web, from an Unlimited to a Constrained Potential View Digital Media
Poster Session Roger Bautier
Tim Berners-Lee, the main inventor of the Web, wanted to develop a device that would allow to both create documents and create links, while offering the possibility to interact with other individuals. Moreover, he thought that it was a compromise between stability and diversity, made possible by its fractal nature. But the Web is in fact a radically unequal network, even if its democratic properties are real. Since 2010, the conception of information literacy has necessarily evolved, because the potential offered by the Web has been severely limited by the development of powerful digital platforms. Their effects on the spreading of information relate to both the fake news and the well-established facts. Berners-Lee now hopes for a kind of rebirth of the Web. Is it possible? In any case, he invites us to concern ourselves with the policy that it would be desirable to promote, if we want to better train citizens in access to information, acquisition of knowledge and formation of opinions in a new public sphere which has gone digital. Two consequences of the digitization are especially to consider. First, digital methods bring considerable profits, especially in terms of the quantity of data processed, but the treatments carried out are not always clearly explained and their users are not always able to understand them. Second, hidden writing is a part of digital media: the old constraints weighing on the printed text could be ignored, while the new ones are unavoidable because they belong to the technical system itself.
The Current State of Student and Trainee-operated Health Science Journals and Their Publishing Practices and Policies: Initial Findings of a Scoping Review
Poster Session Benjamin Saracco, Amanda Adams, Shilpa Rele
The authors conducted this modified scoping review in order to create a comprehensive overview of existing student or trainee operated medical or health science journals published internationally. The titles are analyzed for their publishing practices and policies in order to provide a comprehensive overview of their overall quality and publishing models. Using a modified methodological guidance from the Joanna Briggs Institute, a Scoping Review was conducted to identify existing journals in the medical or health sciences fields that are at least partially operated by or publish research authored by health science or medical students or trainees. Student-run health science journals were identified by searching a variety of indices using comprehensive search strategies developed using predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. Indices searched included The Directory of Open Access Journals, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic and the National Library of Medicine Catalog. Gray literature searching for additional publications was conducted on a variety of additional sources including advanced Google Search Engine searches, Web of Science conference proceedings, and backward and forward citation searching of any similar existing research. Identified journals were screened by authors to ensure they fit our predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria and were analyzed using a Journal Evaluation Tool published by Loyola Marymount University. Select data collected from this tool related to these journals' publishing policies and practices was extracted and analyzed.
