Video abstracts are an increasingly important tool for communicating research, but they are scattered across journal websites, publisher platforms, YouTube channels, and other online sources, making them difficult to find and use. The Video Abstract Archive was created to make these resources easier to discover and preserve.
The Video Abstract Archive was created to provide a central, searchable directory of scholarly video abstracts across all academic disciplines. The archive collects metadata and links to existing video abstracts, allowing users to search by article, author, journal, discipline, publisher, year, or keyword.
Researchers are invited to submit their own video abstracts to increase the visibility and reach of their work. By bringing these resources together in one place, the archive aims to improve the discoverability, accessibility, and impact of research.
Alena Gross is a political scientist specializing in labor, technology, and collective action, with a particular focus on platform labor organizing and coalition-building in the digital economy. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Northern Arizona University, where her dissertation examined how institutional conditions and organizational dynamics shape the political engagement of non-standard workers, such as Uber drivers and freelance platform workers, in the United States and Europe. She also holds a Ph.D. in History from the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and has extensive teaching and research experience in both political science and history. Alena has authored a book and numerous peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from international cooperation to social movements.
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