QUASI-projektet är ett tvärvetenskapligt forskningsprojekt som inkluderar universitet och högskolor i fem europeiska länder. QUASI-samarbetet fokuserar på forskning om jästceller. Projektet avslutades i maj 2007 och de vetenskapliga resultaten ska förklaras för allmänheten. Syftet med mitt examensarbete har varit att utforma lättbegripliga texter om QUASI-projektet för att informera allmänheten om projektet och resultaten. Texterna ska publiceras på en webbsida.

"Understanding what I write" is a study of university-scientists? work concerning science-information, with the basis in Pedagogical Theory. The empirical material is collected through an inquiry and several interviews with scinentists at the ten universities of Sweden. This inquiry was done within the timeframe of November 2000 to Janurary 2001. The purpose is to find out wich methods scientists use to spread their knowledge to the society and what possibilities there are to improve these..

Syfte: Att studera hur pressmeddelanden med positiva forsknings-resultat påverkar marknadsvärdet av bioteknikbolag, och därefter analysera hur företagsspecifika faktorer påverkar effekterna på marknadsvärdet. Metod: Undersökningen bygger på kvantitativ metod där studerandet av pressmeddelandena sker enligt Event Studie metodik. Insamling görs av sekundärdata bestående av press-meddelanden, aktiekurser samt marknadsindex. Ett antal hypoteser ställs upp för att sedan genom statistisk analys bekräftas eller förkastas. Slutsatser: Studien visar att meddelanden med positiva forskningsresultat medför signifikant positiv icke-normal avkastning.

The last few years have been characterised by increasing online communication and the emergence of social media, made possible by Web 2.0. In society as well as in research, social media is used for knowledge produc- tion and networking. One example of this is Mendeley, a social reference management tool. With answers from users all over the world, this study investigates the use of Mendeley, if the respondents use other social media and if all of this affects scientific communication. The aim is also to study what the respondents think about the future of scientific communication and if this can be related to current tendencies.The theoretic framework for this study is based on Leah Lievrouws research on the Cycle of Scientific Communication and the relationship between the ?Little Science 2.0?-scenario and the ?Big Science Retrench- ment?-scenario.A qualitative web based survey was conducted (41 answers) and complemented with an interview with a professor in environmental sciences.

The aim of this thesis is to analyze the academic discipline translation studies; the analysis centers upon bibliometric aspects, and is carried out chiefly by means of quantitative methods, enabled by the databases Web of Science and Scopus as well as by the corpus-linguistic software Wordsmith; however, this quantitative focus is complemented by auxiliary qualitative means of investigation, i.e. a discourse-analytically oriented study of a corpus of domain-endemic reviews.A number of core journals are analyzed in order to show what and whom are cited in translation studies, and, furthermore, what adjacent domains hold sway over it; attention is also given to influential authors, regions and languages operating within the domain. It is shown that the domain under scrutiny is quite differentiated, even fragmentary; the term pluricentric is used to describe this tendency towards sprawling. No superior authors (in terms of publication frequency) emerge, which arouses the suspicion that the domain may be conditioned by a hierarchical divide between journals and monographs. Furthermore, it is clear that translation studies is a eurocentric domain: European languages dominate.

The following thesis concerns the conceptualization of openness within the open access movement. Open accesscan be understood as a phenomenon or a movement that aims at changing the current system of scholarly communication.Consequentially, the movements goals arose in relation to the escalating serials crisis in scholarly communicationand the increasing power of commercial publishers. The purpose of the thesis is to study three centralopen access declarations with the aim of uncovering the different conceptualizations of openness found withinthese texts. Leaning on the theoretical position known as actor-network theory, the declarations role within a surroundingnetwork is explored by focusing on how openness as a concept has been produced and reproduced bycentral actors. Two overarching questions frames the study: How is openness conceptualized within the declarations?And how can openness, as a concept, be understood as an effect generated by a larger network?The first part of the study focuses on the first question.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka om det vetenskapliga innehållet i dagstidningar har förändrats mellan år 1961 och 2001. Tidningarna som undersöks är Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet och metoden som används är kvantitativ innehållsanalys.Resultatet jämförs med den motsvarande danska studien Eksperter i medierna: Dagspressens brug af forskere 1961-2001 av Albæk, E., Munk Christiansen, P. och Togeby, L. Svaret på frågorna och jämförelsen med den danska studien tolkas utifrån teorier om utvecklingen av det moderna kunskapssamhället och experternas viktigare funktion i samhället.Uppsatsen visar att vetenskapsrelaterat material inte förekommer oftare år 2001 jämfört med år 1961. Det vanligaste forskningsområdet som ges utrymme är medicin, vilket gäller för båda åren.