"Let'S Start A Journal!" The Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Journal As Educational Opportunity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Final published version available online here: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0021.109?view=text;rgn=main The University of Lethbridge is a medium-sized, primarily undergraduate, comprehensive research university on the Canadian Prairies in Alberta. It has a small but growing graduate school, the majority of students within which are studying at the Masters level. For many years, the graduate students’ elected representative body, the Graduate Students Association (GSA), has sponsored an annual refereed conference, “Meeting of the Minds.” In 2015, the GSA decided to supplement this conference with an accompanying journal, also called "Meeting of the Minds." This article discusses the lessons learned in establishing this journal and overseeing its first two years of operations (and first year of publication). In doing so, it concentrates on two particular sets of problems: philosophical, economic, and sociological issues that arose at the conceptual level as we set about establishing a multi-disciplinary, institution-focussed graduate journal; and technical, bibliographic, organizational, and economic issues we encountered in attempting to address these conceptual concerns and ensure the long-term viability of the research we accepted and published. While we have not been able to solve all the conceptual problems that arose during our first two years of operation, we have developed several solutions on the organizational, technological, economic, and bibliographic levels that we believe can be used by others establishing similar scholar- or student-led journals. Final published version available online here: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0021.109?view=text;rgn=main
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.014 | 0.046 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.038 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.074 | 0.056 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".