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A Training Discovery Toolkit for the Social Sciences and Humanities

A Training Discovery Toolkit for the Social Sciences and Humanities

Finding and reusing train-the-trainer materials in Social Sciences and Humanities: The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit The Training Discovery Toolkit is an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers of different disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can use to find materials for re-use in their own training activities.

The Publisher's Association's Impact Assessment on OA is Pretty Much As You'd Expect

The Publisher's Association's Impact Assessment on OA is Pretty Much As You'd Expect

The UK Publisher's Association has commissioned a report that seems to be their latest attempt at painting open access to research as economically damaging to the publishing sector.

UK to Infect Up to 90 Healthy Volunteers with Covid in World First Trial

UK to Infect Up to 90 Healthy Volunteers with Covid in World First Trial

Covid human challenge study to start in weeks and will expose adults to virus in controlled environment.

How the World is Adapting to Preprints

How the World is Adapting to Preprints

Preprint servers have become an indispensable part of scholarly publishing. The next step is learning how to embrace them.

A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes - On Purpose

A New Artificial Intelligence Makes Mistakes - On Purpose

A chess program that learns from human error might be better at working with people or negotiating with them.

'Politics Was Always in the Room.' WHO Mission Chief Reflects on China Trip Seeking COVID-19's Origin

'Politics Was Always in the Room.' WHO Mission Chief Reflects on China Trip Seeking COVID-19's Origin

WHO plans to release a summary report of the mission’s finding as early as this week; a full report will come later.

ELife Collaborates with Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium on Manuscript Curation and Review

ELife Collaborates with Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium on Manuscript Curation and Review

The two initiatives have come together in their shared objective to help scientists and the public navigate the high volume of important new research.

'A Million Euro-babies': EU Fetes 30 Years of Student Exchanges

'A Million Euro-babies': EU Fetes 30 Years of Student Exchanges

The European Union celebrated 30 years of its Erasmus student exchange scheme on Tuesday, with its chief executive boasting the program had fostered cross-border romances that may have borne a million children.

Pandemic Hit Academic Mothers Especially Hard, New Data Confirm

Pandemic Hit Academic Mothers Especially Hard, New Data Confirm

Policy changes are needed to aid female scientists, emphasized by new data from a global survey of 20,000 Ph.D. holders.

How Has the Pandemic Influenced Public Attitudes Toward Science?

How Has the Pandemic Influenced Public Attitudes Toward Science?

Join Knowable Magazine for a conversation about public attitudes to science, how they have changed in the past year, and the role that group identities play in shaping people's views.

Physicists Discuss Threats Facing Departments and How Faculty Can Respond

Physicists Discuss Threats Facing Departments and How Faculty Can Respond

Nearly half of all physics chairs report their department is under some level of threat, ranging from closure to budget cutbacks. Physicists offer perspectives on how faculty can respond proactively.

MIT Libraries Develop Innovative Open Access Agreements with PLOS

MIT Libraries Develop Innovative Open Access Agreements with PLOS

The MIT Libraries has negotiated two new open-access publishing agreements with the nonprofit publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) that allow all MIT authors to publish in all PLOS titles with no publishing fees.

Transparency to Hybrid Open Access Through Publisher-provided Metadata

Transparency to Hybrid Open Access Through Publisher-provided Metadata

This study addresses the lack of transparency by leveraging Elsevier article metadata and provides the first publisher-level study of hybrid OA uptake and invoicing.