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Funders have been pushing for open science. What is changing with plan S? This online course presents the funders requirements for open science and explores the Creative Commons licenses. Also, it will be a reminder about open access options for your article and the tools which will help you to choose the best way to publish in open access. ; Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

AbstractIn this paper, we answer the multiple calls for systematic analysis of paradigms and subdisciplines in political science—the search for coherence within a fragmented field. We collected a large dataset of over seven hundred thousand writings in political science from Web of Science since 1946. We found at least two waves of political science development, from behaviorism to new institutionalism. Political science appeared to be more fragmented than literature suggests—instead of ten subdisciplines, we found 66 islands. However, despite fragmentation, there is also a tendency for integration in contemporary political science, as revealed by co-existence of several paradigms and coherent and interconnected topics of the "canon of political science," as revealed by the core-periphery structure of topic networks. This was the first large-scale investigation of the entire political science field, possibly due to newly developed methods of bibliometric network analysis: temporal bibliometric analysis and island methods of clustering. Methodological contribution of this work to network science is evaluation of islands method of network clustering against a hierarchical cluster analysis for its ability to remove misleading information, allowing for a more meaningful clustering of large weighted networks.

This book offers a comparison between our earthly society and the society of a hypothetical twin planet with the aim to understand and deal with some of the main problems of our global society, as well as to advance interaction with some extra-terrestrial society no less advanced than ours that sooner or later will be discovered.€The underlying premise of the book is that the contemporary world finds itself in what may well be the most confused age of human history. Growing technological changes and innovation make it difficult to understand the course of social reality, while the intensification of the relations between different regions of the Earth and the power achieved by financial capital on a world scale amplify the dimensions and visibility of disequilibria and iniquities, and sharpen frustration and sentiments of insecurity. Social thought, as it has developed at the service of a quasi-stationary world, lacks the ability to understand and govern the tumultuous economic and social processes in progress. The most efficacious way to meet this fleeting social reality is to scientifically highlight basic institutions and values and their steady changes caused by the accumulation of creative and choice processes. In doing so, long-run trends can be explored in order to understand and manage the disequilibrating-reequilibrating motion characterizing the life of dynamic societies. This book shows the 'necessity' of institutional and ethical transformations utilizing an utopian flavour.

Cet article présente les résultats d'une recherche sur les mouvements de quartiers, dans sept pays du Sud et de l'Est, durant plus de sept ans. Cette recherche s'est déroulée dans le cadre du programme most de l' unesco et a été menée avec un réseau de chercheurs des pays concernés. Particulièrement affectées par la dégradation de l'environnement, dans l'urgence, et devant le manque de services publics, les femmes interviennent activement dans les mouvements de base pour s'organiser, résister, proposer. Pourtant, la forte présence des femmes dans ces organisations est rarement reconnue. La perspective de genre donne des clés de lecture pour comprendre comment les asymétries féminin-masculin structurent la perception et l'organisation concrète de la vie sociale, et notamment la représentation et l'utilisation de l'environnement et de l'espace urbain. Elle demande de se pencher sur la construction de la féminité et de la masculinité dans des contextes différents, sur le fonctionnement des institutions et des organisations, sur les changements des rapports de pouvoir entre hommes et femmes, et, à l'intérieur de ces processus et structures, sur les capacités d'action de la personne en tant que sujet. Cet article montre, dans les mouvements de quartiers étudiés par les différentes équipes de chercheurs, comment le façonnement asymétrique de la féminité et de la masculinité se traduit en inégalités dans l'accès aux droits. Il analyse de quelle manière la prise de conscience de ces asymétries ouvre des brèches pour instaurer dans les mouvements de quartier, de manière fugace, de nouveaux rapports sociaux, et comment se construit, sur ces territoires de vie, une autre façon de penser le politique.