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ResearchIC is equipped with ChatGPT and Perusall. Install the Chrome Extension 'Google Scholar OJC Checker'

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Online Journal Clubs

For:           researchers and research students 
To:            read 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 research-informed education 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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Researcher 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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OJC Event Style: Classic

If not specially required, the "OJC Event Style: Classic" is set as the default style of OJC Events at ResearchIC. It combines researchers (hosts)' experience sharing, and attendants' invidividual and social reading components in one place.

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Researchers from the following universities are using ResearchIC

Toyohashi University of Technology
The University of Hong Kong
Curtin University
Zhejiang Normal University
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
University of Tsukuba

Learn from These Researchers

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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, Z.

Assistant professor, The University of Hong Kong

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Dr. Thomas Chiu

Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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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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Supported by

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 OJC Events?

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

I got email invitation and agreed to become a host. What's 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 consider 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 Index of People database

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 OJC Events 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 OJC Events?

100 Online Journal Club Events are abbreviated as “100 OJC Events” 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 literacy in the education domain. The project's PI is Dr.Jingjing Lin, an assistant professor at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan). 

100 OJC Events intend to invite and collaborate with 100 educational researchers from around the world, to co-create and deliver online journal club events. These OJC events are primarily designed for postgraduate research students. The purpose is to investigate whether using OJC events could improve educational research literacy levels 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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Inquiry

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

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