- We encourage everyone to submit their work on this site for comments and to converse with others. Each piece of work will be shared with our massive portfolio of knowledge conveyers – reporters, journalists, bloggers, influencers, etc. Submit material in two different categories: Moderated Articles & Casual Literature.
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- Please submit your work on the submissions page.
- Moderated articles are our version of peer-reviewed / refereed articles.
- The scoring feature is coming soon
- When you submit an article for moderation we will identify at least three peers in your research area (moderators) with whom we will share the article and ask for a score. This score will come a TAPUPAS (Transparency, Accuracy, Propriety, Utility, Purposivity, Accessibility, and Specificity) score. More on TAPUPAS below. The average of the scores will be shown to the public. The identify of the moderators will not be shared. However, we will work to ensure that moderators for an article is an academic who have experience with the subject matter at a high level. If we are having trouble getting enough feedback from moderators, (or finding enough appropriate moderators) we will give you the option of waiting for additional feedback or letting us publish with your score as TBD. After the article is published additional moderators will be able to score the article. Those scores will be averaged with the previous scores.
- If you are interested in being a moderator please let us know.
- Casual literature is a write up of your work that explains the research to someone who is not an expert in your field. It is not written for academics. It is written for the average person. Casual literature is very important. Many people do not want to sift through academic papers. They want to understand the ideas at a high level and to know what if means for them. So, use this as an opportunity to communicate to the curious, not just the studios.
- Promoting your material is key to our mission. We want knowledge to be shared broadly. To help make this happen, we have assembled an extensive list of knowledge conveyors to help get your material out. These knowledge conveyors include reporters, journalists, bloggers, influencers, youtubers, and other individuals who can share your material. It is important for you to add tags to your material. We use these tags to identify which individuals should receive your material. We wouldn’t want to send your research on structural engineering to a fashion journalist.
- Abstracts are very important as they summarize your material. However, academic abstracts tend to be long and dense. For submitting to this site, we recommend that you keep the abstract very simple. We will only give you a limit of 60 words. This helps both you and us with SEO. It will also serve as the primer for the knowledge conveyors. Use the abstract on this site to get them interested in material.
- PDFs are useful as many like to read material on paper. Feel free to add your material as a pdf. This will show up at the bottom of your article.
Use this guide for understanding TAPUPAS
- Transparency: the process of knowledge generation should be open to outside scrutiny. For knowledge to meet this standard, it should make plain how it was generated, clarifying aims, objectives and all the steps of the subsequent argument, so giving readers access to a common understanding of the underlying reasoning.
- Accuracy: all knowledge claims should be supported by and faithful to the events, experiences, informants and sources used in their production. For knowledge to meet this standard, it should demonstrate that all assertions, conclusions and recommendations are based upon relevant and appropriate information.
- Purposivity: the approaches and methods used to gain knowledge should be appropriate to the task in hand, or ‘fit for purpose’. For knowledge to meet this standard, it should demonstrate that the inquiry has followed the apposite approach to meet the stated objectives of the exercise.
- Utility: knowledge should be appropriate to the decision setting in which it is intended to be used, and to the information need expressed by the seeker after knowledge. For knowledge to meet this standard, it should be ‘fit for use’, providing answers that are as closely matched as possible to the question.
- Propriety: knowledge should be created and managed legally, ethically, and with due care to all relevant stakeholders. For knowledge to meet this standard, it should present adequate evidence, appropriate to each point of contact, of the informed consent of relevant stakeholders. The release (or withholding) of information should also be subject to agreement.
- Accessibility: knowledge should be presented in a way that meets the needs of the knowledge seeker. To meet this standard, no potential user should be excluded because of the presentational style employed.
- Specificity: the knowledge must pass muster within its own source domain, as perceived by its participants and proponents.
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