From June 2020 to February 2021, a consortium of 10 organisations undertook a large-scale study on open access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as “OA diamond journals”. This study was commissioned by cOAlition S in order to gain a better understanding of the OA diamond landscape.

The text on Sami shamanism in Caspar Peucer’s Commentarius de praecipuis divinationum generibus (Wittenberg 1560): Critical edition, with translation and commentary. Among the sources dealing with the shamanistic skills of the Sami (formerly Lapponian) population, a certain text by Kaspar Peucer has so far been little known. This man of extreme learning was the son-in-law of Philip Melanchthon and ...

Observation has a long history in kindergarten teachers' education and profession. This research investigates observation as a professional tool in Norwegian kindergartens and as a topic in kindergarten teacher education. Based on a survey among 1311 in-service teachers, kindergarten managers, and pedagogy teachers, this study determines the use of and rationale for observation in kindergarten ...

High energy protons accelerated during solar proton events (SPEs) can access the Earth's middle atmosphere at high and middle latitudes causing large‐scale ionization and chemical changes. In this study, we have compared the performance of two cutoff latitude models that predict the limit of the SPE impact area in the atmosphere during 73 SPEs from 1997 to 2010. We use observations from 13 riometer ...

Objective The aim of the current study was to assess the relation between occupational exposure to solvents and the risk of acute myeloid leukemia (AML).<p> <p>Methods Altogether, this study comprises 15 332 incident cases of AML diagnosed in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland from 1961–2005 and 76 660 controls matched by year of birth, sex, and country. Occupational records were linked with ...

Distally deposited tephra from explosive volcanic eruptions can be a powerful tool for precise dating and correlation of sedimentary archives and landforms. However, the morphostratigraphic and chronological potential of ocean-rafted pumice has been under-utilized considering its long observational history and widespread distribution on modern and palaeo-shorelines around the world. Here we analyze ...

Da Fridtjof Nansen døde i 1930, skrev Nordahl Grieg hjem til sin bror Harald Grieg: «For et eventyrlig liv som er forbi, det var jo ikke én stor mand som døde, det var ti». Nansens brede virke, hans mange evner, hans tilstedeværelse i store hendelser gir alt et voldsomt inntrykk – og har gitt ham mange merkelapper: vitenskapsmann, polfarer, kunstner, diplomat, filantrop, for å nevne noen. <p> <p>Det ...

There may be reasons to suspect small, stand-alone journals are not the best answer to the publishing need of the humanities and the social sciences. This presentation explores some of the aspects of this.

<p>“Looking to the North” is a unique cartographic exhibition currently on display at the Polar Museum in Tromsø. The exhibition features some of the most spectacular printed maps of the northern regions, among them a copy of the first printed map of the European Far North, published in Ulm 1482, in present-day Germany. UiT The Arctic University of Norway boasts one of the finest collections of ...