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Thoughts on preprint services

Posted on December 27th, 2023

After 15 years experience of scientific book and journal publishing from various perspectives, such as journal founder, editor, reviewer, author, funder, entrepreneur etc., I found preprints. They seem to be a solution for slow review times. Background...

Secure open access and document relations via TUHAT

Posted on March 6th, 2023

University of Helsinki uses Pure as a the user interface for the institutional TUHAT research data system. For us researchers it is extremely important to deposit all publications to our Research Portal to support open science.Basic level: Green open a...

Gender distribution in chemistry studies in Finland

Posted on February 18th, 2023

Studies show that STEM field is struggling with shortage of women (NGCP, 2022). On the other hand, educational field has too little male teachers. Over 70 % of all European teachers are women (Katsarova, 2019). But what is the current situation in the ...

Sustainability to JUFO 0 level in 2023

Posted on October 19th, 2022

The Finnish Publication forum panel chairs have decided to act as science police and downgrade Sustainability journal's quality classification from 1 to 0 from the beginning of 2023.Good or bad?On one hand this excellent news. To be honest, from author...

HTML articles and Pocket/Hypothesis

Posted on March 31st, 2022

Scientific articles are usually delivered in 2 main formats: PDFs and HTML articles. Everybody knows how to operate with PDF articles. Some do it more efficient than others. My workflow with PDFs is to manage citations via Zotero and save relevant file...

Future chemistry teachers’ perceptions of vocationally relevant learning methods: A meta level reflection

Posted on April 12th, 2021

University teaching should be based on the latest research data (University of Helsinki, 2021). This ensures scientific timeliness. In chemistry education, this is challenging as the field is advancing rapidly on two fronts – chemistry and its teac...

RSS Mashup V1.0

Posted on April 13th, 2020

I have been using RSS feeds for supporting lifelong learning and information retrieval for years. RSS is a news tool that enables retrieving the latest changes from some specific website or e.g. scientific journal. Feeds can be subscribed to mobile...

How to get an impact factor for a journal?

Posted on March 25th, 2020

As the Managing Editor of LUMAT, one of my main challenge for future is to get an impact factor for the journal. How can I achieve that?The importance of indexingI have been running my ME position in LUMAT a little over two years. During that time...

3D printing in chemistry education: A meta level reflection

Posted on October 7th, 2019

I finally got my 3D printing review paper published. I wrote it together with Dr. Susanne Wiedmer, an analytical chemist from the Chemistry Department of University of Helsinki. We submitted it to a new IUPAC supported journal called Chemistry Teache...