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The Future of Scholarly Communication - Workshop 24–26 February 2021

The Future of Scholarly Communication - Workshop 24–26 February 2021

OPERAS-P, an H2020 project coordinated by CNRS, is organising a workshop Future of scholarly communication, which will be dedicated to discussing the outcomes of the research undertaken in the project's Work Package 6 (Innovation).

Is Preprint the Future of Science? A Thirty Year Journey of Online Preprint Services

Is Preprint the Future of Science? A Thirty Year Journey of Online Preprint Services

Preprints make scholarly communication more efficient by disseminating scientific discoveries more rapidly. The measurements presented in this study can help researchers and policymakers make informed decisions about how to effectively use and responsibly embrace a preprint culture.

EU Says It Can Exclude China from EU Research Projects

EU Says It Can Exclude China from EU Research Projects

The European Commission says it can exclude Chinese participation in Horizon Europe and other sensitive research projects using new powers to exclude third countries that do not share ‘EU values’.

Science Needs a Radical Overhaul

Science Needs a Radical Overhaul

Illusions of discovery are holding science back. But even if we wanted to do the right thing and evaluate scientific papers based on their quality, regardless of how flashy and exciting the claims of discovery may be, it’s not clear how we’d do that.

Preprints in Motion: Tracking Changes Between Posting and Journal Publication

Preprints in Motion: Tracking Changes Between Posting and Journal Publication

Study utilised a combination of automatic and manual annotations to quantify how an article from early 2020 changed between the preprinted and published version.

Bibliometrics in Academic Recruitment: A Screening Tool Rather Than a Game Changer

Bibliometrics in Academic Recruitment: A Screening Tool Rather Than a Game Changer

Paper concludes that metrics were applied chiefly as a screening tool to decrease the number of eligible candidates and not as a replacement for peer review.

HHMI Commits $30 Million to Increase Diversity in Science with 21 Hanna Gray Fellows

HHMI Commits $30 Million to Increase Diversity in Science with 21 Hanna Gray Fellows

HHMI announces the selection of 21 exceptional early career scientists as 2020 Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in biomedical research. The 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition will open later this year.

Persistent Identifiers Connect a Scholarly Record with Many Versions

Persistent Identifiers Connect a Scholarly Record with Many Versions

In the past few months, we've seen large commercial publishers express renewed concern that sharing author manuscripts in open repositories threatens the scholarly record because multiple versions undermine the "version of record". However, establishing and maintaining relationships to other versions of articles or research assets has already been shown to be successful in disciplinary and scholarly communities.

When More is More: Broad Calls for Multilingualism and Evaluation Reform

When More is More: Broad Calls for Multilingualism and Evaluation Reform

In recent years, numerous initiatives have highlighted linguistic biases embedded in current evaluation processes and have called for change. The DORA-hosted community discussion on multilingualism in scholarly evaluation was inspired by actions others have taken to address these issues.

Widely Shared Vitamin D-COVID-19 Preprint Removed from Lancet Server

Widely Shared Vitamin D-COVID-19 Preprint Removed from Lancet Server

A preprint promoted by a member of the UK Parliament for claiming to show that vitamin D led to an “80% reduction in need for ICU and a 60% reduction in deaths” has been removed from a server used by The Lancet family of journals.

The Coronavirus is Here to Stay - Here's What That Means

The Coronavirus is Here to Stay - Here's What That Means

A Nature survey shows many scientists expect the virus that causes COVID-19 to become endemic, but it could pose less danger over time.

The Myth of 'Good Covid Vaccines' and 'Bad Covid Vaccines'

The Myth of 'Good Covid Vaccines' and 'Bad Covid Vaccines'

Experts fear false narratives about vaccines could slow down the task of inoculating people and create other problems in the future.

AfricArXiv - the African Preprint Repository - AfricArXiv on OSF (2020)

AfricArXiv - the African Preprint Repository - AfricArXiv on OSF (2020)

Contribute to covering the fees for AfricArXiv preprint hosting on the Open Science Framework (OSF).

Open-source Community Call: The Latest Developments in Open Publishing and Research Communication

Open-source Community Call: The Latest Developments in Open Publishing and Research Communication

Join the next call on open research communication projects to share and discuss emerging projects and significant updates for ongoing ones.

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

At the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Conference, 193 Members States tasked the Organization with the development of an international standard-setting instrument on Open Science in the form of a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to be adopted by Member States in 2021.

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.