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Nations are increasingly turning to citizens' assemblies to weigh up climate policies.
"We see a diverse, interconnected, open, professional and viable, developing OS ecosystem in Europe on solid ground; one that is worth investing in. At the same time, this developing ecosystem faces a range of issues that challenge its path to a more open and sustainable future." This is a core conclusion of this new SPARC Europe report.
The extraordinary effort to speed the development of treatments and vaccines in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put into sharp relief the need for the global science community to share scientific data openly.
DataCite and the FREYA project partners are proud to announce the official launch of DataCite Commons. DataCite Commons is the web interface to explore the PID Graph, formed by the publications, datasets, research software, and other research outputs generated by researchers working at research institutions and supported by grant funding.
Survey finds widespread support for editing, but there is little guidance from journals.
This guide wants to inform researchers about the Creative Commons (CC) licence system
Cues related to information about open science content and independent verification of author claims were rated as highly important for judging preprint credibility.
The Official PLOS Blog studies how researchers evaluate both the credibility and impact of research outputs.
Exclusive: expedition discovers new source of greenhouse gas off East Siberian coast has been triggered.
New research found 'autoantibodies' similar to those in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But patients may also benefit from treatments for those autoimmune diseases.
Experts say it's normal for levels of antibodies to drop after clearing an infection, and that they represent just one arm of the immune response against a virus.
Proof of significant amounts of H2O has implications for future lunar missions.
The shift to virtual conferences needs to be accompanied by a sensitivity to people in different time zones.
NASA's interest in lunar water is not purely academic.
From black holes at the Earth's center to decapitated quails, a group of scientists-some working for a journal from a major publisher-are prolifically publishing pseudoscience.
Black workers at universities are among the most vulnerable people on campuses. But they often are left out of conversations about racial justice.
Paper describe how LU builds up its support for FAIR data before, during and after research through its involvement in leading practices, training and consultancy and end with recommendations for other universities wanting to implement the FAIR principles.
The dominant model of Article Processing Charges, whilst lowering financial barriers for readers, has merely erected a new paywall at the other end of the pipeline, blocking access to publication for less-privileged authors.
In recent months, we've all been bombarded with numbers. It's vital that we learn how to interpret them.
The agreement will allow authors at eligible German institutes to publish papers for fee of about £8500 each
Sector calls for compromise to ensure UK researchers stay in Horizon Europe.
The recent nature issue publishes findings from leading researchers on an urgent quest for a vaccine against SARS-Cov-2. Here ist how the cover image was created, drawing on aspects of Bauhaus artist Paul Klee’s famous notebooks to reimagine the quest for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
A look at international activities on Open Science reveals a broad spectrum from individual institutional policies to national action plans. The present Recommendations for a National Open Science Strategy in Austria are based on these international initiatives and present practical considerations for their coordinated implementation with regard to strategic developments in research, technology and innovation (RTI) in Austria until 2030. The recommendation paper was developed from 2018 to 2020 by the OANA working group "Open Science Strategy" and published for the first time in spring 2020 for a public consultation. The now available final version of the recommendation document, which contains feedback and comments from the consultation, is intended to provide an impetus for further discussion and implementation of Open Science in Austria and serves as a contribution and basis for a potential national Open Science Strategy in Austria. The document builds on the diverse expertise of the authors (academia, administration, library and archive, information technology, science policy, funding system, etc.) and reflects their personal experiences and opinions.
The author is engaged in a project that seeks to convert publishers to business models that will allow them to publish their books openly, without using unaffordable book processing charges (which authors hate and which will not scale). As of today, the first press to take the leap: the Central European University Press can be announced. The model is called “Opening the Future”.
