Access Agreement Between Elsevier and Dutch Universities Extended
Agreement will allow for continued explorations between Elsevier, VSNU, NFU and NWO on how to work together toward future Dutch open science infrastructure services.
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Meta-Research: Centralized Scientific Communities Are Less Likely to Generate Replicable Results
Meta-Research: Centralized Scientific Communities Are Less Likely to Generate Replicable Results
Analysis of data on drug-gene interactions suggests that decentralized collaboration will increase the robustness of scientific findings in biomedical research.
'Psychological Fear': MIT Scientists of Chinese Origin Protest Toxic US Climate
'Psychological Fear': MIT Scientists of Chinese Origin Protest Toxic US Climate
Researchers describe how a government crackdown on foreign influence is affecting them following a statement of support from their university.
10 Medical Myths We Should Stop Believing. Doctors, Too.
Researchers identified nearly 400 common medical practices and theories that were contradicted by rigorous studies. Here are some of the most notable findings.
Work Plan for Plan S
Coalition S has identified the following priorities for the next few months.
Ten Hot Topics Around Scholarly Publishing
The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open Research’ has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated topics.
EU Science Chief Wants to Work ERC Magic on Innovation
The European Union’s research commissioner Carlos Moedas has proposed setting up a European Innovation Council (EIC) to fund applied research and innovation. Inspired by the well-loved European Research Council (ERC), this idea is one of several measures announced here yesterday to boost innovation across the union.
Tracking the Growth of the PID Graph
The connections between scholarly resources generated by persistent identifiers (PIDs) and associated metadata form a graph: the PID Graph. Today we are announcing another important milestone: we added the required functionality to the DataCite GraphQL API that allows us to keep track of the growth of the PID Graph in terms of nodes (resources) and edges (connections).
Machine Learning Has Been Used to Automatically Translate Long-lost Languages
Machine Learning Has Been Used to Automatically Translate Long-lost Languages
Some languages that have never been deciphered could be the next ones to get the machine translation treatment.
Scientists Took an M.R.I. Scan of an Atom
The hospital technology, typically used to identify human ailments, captured perhaps the world's smallest magnetic resonance image.
Universities Show Their True Colours in Court
Institutions cannot boast of a respectful environment for researchers and trainees if they flout those values to cut legal liability, says Steven Piantadosi.
Why Plants Don't Die from Cancer
Most plant life survived the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl - and they have a lack of legs to thank for it.
Migrating to Open-source Technologies
The Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) started a year ago to mitigate anticipated software license fee increases.
“No-Deal” Is a Bad Deal for Science
This factsheet of the Royal Society explains why leaving the EU with "no-deal" is a bad deal for science.
The Largest Obstacles to Open Access Are Unfamiliarity and Misunderstanding of Open Access Itself
The Largest Obstacles to Open Access Are Unfamiliarity and Misunderstanding of Open Access Itself
Explaining the current trends, issues and challenges of open access with special focus on Plan S, Plan U, article processing charges (APC), access issues and predatory publishing practices.
Periodic Table of the Open Research Ecosystem
This graphic is an adaptation of Kramer and Bosman's Rainbow of open science practices and Stanley and Vandegrift's Periodic Table of Digital Research Resources. It is meant to inspire and invoke ongoing discussions about what a community- or academy-owned research infrastructure might begin to look like.
Universities Are Economic And Knowledge Engines - A Proposed 41% Cut In Alaska Is Scary
OpenCitations
OpenCitations is a scholarly infrastructure organization dedicated to open scholarship and the publication of open bibliographic and citation data as Linked Open Data using Semantic Web technologies, to the development of software tools and services that enable convenient access to these open data, and to community advocacy for open citations. This paper describes OpenCitations and its datasets, tools, services and activities.
How Will We Judge Scientists in 2030?
A Dutch conference discussed the current rewards and incentives system and thought about the evaluation criteria of the future.
You've Completed Your Review - Now Get Credit with ORCID
Reviewers can now enter their ORCID iD in the Editorial Manager submission system for all PLOS journals and opt-in to automatically get credit when they complete a review, the same way they would for their published articles.
The State of Open Monographs
Digital Science launched a report on the state of open access monographs. The report addresses the question of how we integrate and value monographs in the increasingly open digital scholarly network.
New Climate 'stripes' Reveal How Much Hotter Your Hometown Has Gotten in the Past Century
New Climate 'stripes' Reveal How Much Hotter Your Hometown Has Gotten in the Past Century
#ShowYourStripes visuals adorn ties, cufflinks, and the stage of a German music festival.
Imminent Change to Elsevier Access
The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January. Now, the University of California have reason to believe that Elsevier will shut off direct access to new articles later this week or in early July.
Springer Nature Signs Its First 'pure OA' Deal with Sweden's Bibsam
An agreement between publisher Springer Nature and Sweden's Bibsam consortium - made up of institutional libraries and funders - will see the two share the costs of publishing in Springer Nature's Open Access journals.
What is the Blockchain Really, and Should You Care? A Guide for the Perplexed Scholarly Publishing Citizen
What is the Blockchain Really, and Should You Care? A Guide for the Perplexed Scholarly Publishing Citizen
Here's a 12 point guide to blockchain. Written for non-technically minded scholarly publishing folk.
Discrimination Drives LGBT+ Scientists to Think About Quitting
Despite progress, many physical scientists from sexual and gender minorities experience exclusion or harassment at work, finds UK survey.
How to Support Open Source Software and Stay Sane
Releasing lab-built open source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers.
UKRI Signs San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment - UK Research and Innovation
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has signed the international declaration aimed at strengthening and promoting best practice in the way research is assessed.
Work Plan and Priority Actions for cOAlition S
Coalition S acknowledges that there is a wide range of work to be done to implement Plan S and identified 9 priorities for the next few months.
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