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Online Journal Clubs


For:           researchers and research students 
To:            read academic journal articles
With:        a global audience

For better research literacy, knowledge sharing,
and community building.

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Researchers

Attend/Organize Online Journal Clubs (OJCs) and share your experience of research literature reading.

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University Students

Attend/Organize OJCs to read research literature with peers or/and senior researchers.
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Educators/Teachers

Adopt evidence-based practices in your classroom teaching? Get updated directly from researchers.
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Industry Players

Need a better understanding of research? Attending OJCs can make your learning curve flatter and reading experience more social.

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Research Training Agents

Adopt OJCs into your training programmes.

How to Use ResearchIC as Beginner Users?

Reasons to Join

Research Literacy

OJCs aim to enhance the research literacy levels of participants.

Event-Driven Research

OJCs will be closely designed based on research and in return lead to more research using both public and private fundings it receives.

Global Co-Creation

These OJCs will initiate global co-creation activities based on internet-based academic reading events among educational researchers and students.

Shared Learning Data

OJCs' hosts will get a copy of the learning data from their hosted event to support their potential research based on this initiative.
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Researchers from the following universities are using ResearchIC

{mlang en}Toyohashi University of Technology{mlang}{mlang ja}豊橋技術科学大学{mlang}{mlang zh_cn}丰桥工业大学{mlang}
{mlang en}The University of Hong Kong{mlang}{mlang ja}香港大学{mlang}{mlang zh_cn}香港大学{mlang}
{mlang en}Curtin University{mlang}{mlang ja}カーティン大学{mlang}{mlang zh_cn}科廷大学{mlang}
{mlang en}University College of London{mlang} {mlang ja}ロンドン大学{mlang} {mlang zh_cn}伦敦大学学院{mlang}
{mlang en}Dublin City University{mlang} {mlang ja}ダブリンシティ大学{mlang} {mlang zh_cn}都柏林城市大学{mlang}
{mlang en}University of Tsukuba{mlang} {mlang ja}筑波大学{mlang} {mlang zh_cn}筑波大学{mlang}

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Prof. Myint Swe Khine

Professor, Curtin University

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Prof. Mark Brown

Professor, Dublin City University

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Prof. Florence Martin

Professor, North Carolina State University

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Prof. Chun-Yen Chang

Professor, National Taiwan Normal University

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Dr. Murod Ismailov

Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba

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Dr. Jingjing Lin

Assistant Professor, Toyohashi University of Technology

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Dr. Lukas LIU

Assistant professor, The University of Hong Kong

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Dr. Thomas Chiu

Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kongu

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Dr. Min Lan

Assistant Professor, Zhejiang Normal University

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Dr. Mark Newman

Program leader/Reader, Institute of Education, University College London

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ResearchIC has received research funding (2022-2025) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under the framework of JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (22K13755). 

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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

ResearchIC has received research funding (2022-2023) from the Moodle Association of Japan MAJ R&D Grant 2022.

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Moodle Association of Japan
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is it free to use ResearchIC?

This is an academic project sponsored by JSPS and Moodle Association of Japan MAJ R&D Grant 2022. Until April 2025, it provides free service for researchers and students. 

Do I need to design OJC by myself?

No. You can use one of our event templates or you can develop one event from scratch. If you want to develop the event by yourself, please let your event coordinator know. We can fully accommodate your preference.


How to join an OJC?

If you are interested in hosting an OJC event, please visit this page and add a new entry on the page, or email to hi@researchic.com. If you want to attend OJC, please sign in to the system and enrol yourself to interested OJC.

Do I get paid as a host in 100 OJCs?

Yes. You will receive honorarium according to the payment regulation of Toyohashi University of Technology.

I agreed to become a host. What next?

Thank you for your agreement to become our hosts! Please wait patiently for the follow-up email sent from ResearchIC, which contains guidance for next actions. Meanwhile, please take the following actions:

  • sign up to the system, or sign in using your existing Google, LinkedIn, or Facebook account. This action will help to speed up the procedure. 
  • add a bio page of yourself on Researchers Hub 

If you are invited by email to become a host at ResearchIC, you do not need to apply for becoming a host.

Who can host OJCs on ResearchIC?

The 100 OJCs between 2023 and 2024 are originally open to global researchers and research students in the field of education science. But other fields' researchers and research students are also welcome.

What are 100 OJCs?

100 Online Journal Clubs are abbreviated as “100 OJCs” on ResearchIC. It is the primary initiative of a three-year R&D project involving the use of online journal club events to train research reading capabilities in the education domain. The project's Principan Investigator (PI) is Dr.Jingjing Lin, an assistant professor at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan). 100 OJCs intend to invite and collaborate with educational researchers from around the world, to co-create and deliver online journal clubs. These OJCs are primarily designed for postgraduate research students. The purpose is to investigate whether using OJCs could improve educational research reading capabilities of higher degree research students.

How can I contact you?

We are very happy to hear from you and provide you with support. Please go to Support Forum to leave us a message, or you can email to: hi@researchic.com as an alternative.

Do I get paid to attend OJCs?

No.

Where to find more guidance?

You can use ChatGPT on the right drawer of blocks on the page to ask for guidance regarding anything. As alternative, you can also visit "User Guide and FAQ".

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In case of any enquiries, please either use the support forum or email to hi@researchic.com.

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