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McGill Library’s Open Access CV Drive

Open your research to the world!

Deposit your scholarly work  in the McGill digital repository, eScholarship, by droping off your CV during the dates and times listed below, or send us a list of links to any websites documenting your scholarship at escholarship.library@mcgill.ca.

CV drop off times:

• Monday, Oct 22nd, 12:30 – 14:30, FDA lobby
• Wednesday, Oct 24th, 12:30 – 14:30, FDA lobby
• Thursday, Oct 25th, 14:00 – 16:00, Leacock lobby

The Archives hold documents dating back to the medieval era—fun to see alongside recent history!

This article explores the contentious world of journal acceptance rates in political science. The authors surveyed the top 30 journals in the field to investigate the publications’ practices regarding submissions. They give the publications a “transparency score” and also list the acceptance rates and average turn-around times (ranging from 21 days for Foreign Affairs to 120 for World Politics).

Abstract

Dissemination of journal submission data is critical for identifying editorial bias, creating an informed scholarly marketplace, and critically mapping the contours of a discipline’s scholarship. However, our survey and case study investigations indicate that nearly a decade after the Perestroika movement began, political science journals remain reserved in collecting and releasing submission data. We offer several explanations for this lack of transparency and suggest ways that the profession might address this shortcoming.

The full fair schedule, with session descriptions, is listed here. Here is an outline:

Data Fair Schedule

Monday, October 1

11-11:50 a.m.: General Orientation to ICPSR

12-12:50 p.m.: Navigating the New ICPSR Web site

1-1:50 p.m.: ICPSR in the Classroom

2-2:50 p.m.: Promoting ICPSR on Your Campus

Tuesday, October 2

11-11:50 a.m.: The American National Election Studies: An Introduction

12-12:50 p.m.: The American National Election Study: Finding Hidden Treasure

1-1:50 p.m.: Minority Voting Behavior

2-2:50 p.m.: Latino Voting Behavior and the National Latino Survey

Wednesday, October 3

11-11:50 a.m.: Elections, Polling, and Politics …. Oh, My!

12-12:50 p.m.: SETUPS: The ANES in the Classroom

1-1:50 p.m.: Election Data in the Classroom

Do you read journal articles on a smartphone or tablet? If so, Oxford offers a mobile version designed to improve the experience. More information about connecting is here.

Description:

The World Bank eAtlas of Global Development maps and graphs more than 175 thematically organized indicators for over 200 countries, letting you visualize and compare progress on the most important development challenges facing our world. Most indicators cover several decades, so you can see, for example, how “life expectancy at birth” has improved from 1960 up through the latest year.”

Description of the editorial policy:
The journal covers Human Geography, broadly conceived to cover topics ranging from geopolitics, through cultural and economic issues, to political ecology. We want to produce a well-written, critical, intellectual journal, not full of empirical detail, and not encumbered by too many citations, a journal that can be read in its entirety.

To quote, it is “an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 813 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.”

The content is also indexed in Google Scholar.

The publications in the database are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and most countries in the region in local languages (as well as some in English).

• Canada (with results subdivided by federal, provincial, and municipal documents)
• United States
• Africa
• Asia/Pacific
• Caribbean/Latin America
• Middle East
• Intergovernmental Organizations.

Of course, the search tools are limited in effectiveness by the unstructured nature of the web, so the results can be quite mixed in quality. News sources, for example, often come up amongst official publications. With that caveat, though, these engines can be useful for partially narrowing down searches for government information.

Give it a try!

Statista integrates data sets from over 10,000 sources onto a single platform, including:

• BP
• U.S. Census Bureau
• International Monetary Fund Nielsen
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• TNS
• UN Statistics Division
• Worldbank

The focus is on financial data, but other topics include health, crime, labour, immigration, and other social indicators.