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Advancing Open Access in the Netherlands After 2020: From Quantity to Quality

Advancing Open Access in the Netherlands After 2020: From Quantity to Quality

The paper explores options to further open access in the Netherlands from 2021. Its premise is that there is a need to look at qualitative aspects of open access, alongside quantitative ones.

ELife and COVID-19: Data Deposition Required for All C19 Rapid Review Publishers

ELife and COVID-19: Data Deposition Required for All C19 Rapid Review Publishers

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of sharing data openly to improve the discoverability and reusability of new results.

New Public Data File: 120+ Million Metadata Records

New Public Data File: 120+ Million Metadata Records

2020 wasn't all bad. In April of last year, we released our first public data file. Though Crossref metadata is always openly available--and our board recently cemented this by voting to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)--we've decided to release an updated file.

A Bitter Archaeological Feud Over an Ancient Vision of the Cosmos

A Bitter Archaeological Feud Over an Ancient Vision of the Cosmos

The Nebra sky disk, which has been called the oldest known depiction of astronomical phenomena, is a "very emotional object."

A Surprise in a 50 Million-Year-Old Assassin Bug Fossil: Its Genitals

A Surprise in a 50 Million-Year-Old Assassin Bug Fossil: Its Genitals

Scientists were surprised to find the insect's preserved penis, which suggests it was an unknown species.

Academia in Motion: a Different Form of Recognition and Reward

Academia in Motion: a Different Form of Recognition and Reward

A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria would improve the systems of recognition and rewards in academia.

Meet Eric Lander, Biden's Pick For Science Adviser And A Polarizing Figure

Meet Eric Lander, Biden's Pick For Science Adviser And A Polarizing Figure

Under Biden, genome-sequencing pioneer Eric Lander may become the most powerful scientist in US history. But he comes with some baggage.

Open Science in the Horizon Europe Funding Programme: What to Expect?

Open Science in the Horizon Europe Funding Programme: What to Expect?

In this forward-looking spirit, sharing information about the coming EU funding framework seems to be an appropriate topic for the last DARIAH Open post in 2020. As such, this entry is having a look at how Open Science is taking shape in the nascent Horizon Europe funding programme for 2021-2027, what to expect and what are the major changes compared to the previous funding programme, Horizon 2020.

New California Variant May Be Driving Virus Surge There, Study Suggests

New California Variant May Be Driving Virus Surge There, Study Suggests

Researchers found that the variant originated in California and showed up in more than half of samples tested last week by researchers in Los Angeles.

Decolonizing Scholarly Communications Through Bibliodiversity

Decolonizing Scholarly Communications Through Bibliodiversity

This short form article was originally accepted to be published in a Special Open Access Collection in the journal, Development and Change, however, was withdrawn by the authors due to unacceptable licensing conditions proposed by the publisher. Diversity is an important characteristic of any healthy ecosystem. In the field of scholarly communications, diversity in services and platforms, funding mechanisms and evaluation measures will allow the ecosystem to accommodate the different workflows, languages, publication outputs and research topics that support the needs of different research communities. Diversity also reduces the risk of vendor lock-in, which leads to monopolization and high prices. Yet this 'bibliodiversity' is undermined by the fact that researchers around the world are evaluated according to journal-based citation measures, which have become the major currency of academic research. Journals seek to maximize their bibliometric measures by adopting editorial policies that increase citation counts, resulting in the predominance of Northern/Western research priorities and perspectives in the literature, and an increasing marginalization of research topics of more narrow or local nature. This contribution examines the distinctive, non-commercial approach to open access (OA) found in Latin America and reflects on how greater diversity in OA infrastructures helps to address inequalities in global knowledge production as well as knowledge access. The authors argue that bibliodiversity, rather than adoption of standardized models of OA, is central to the development of a more equitable system of knowledge production.

Imposters Hijack Journal's Peer Review Process to Publish Substandard Papers

Imposters Hijack Journal's Peer Review Process to Publish Substandard Papers

Scammers set up fake institutional email accounts to deceive a chemistry publication's editorial team.

Large-scale Comparison of Bibliographic Data Sources: Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, Crossref, and Microsoft Academic

Large-scale Comparison of Bibliographic Data Sources: Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, Crossref, and Microsoft Academic

We present a large-scale comparison of five multidisciplinary bibliographic data sources: Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, Crossref, and Microsoft Academic. The comparison considers scientific documents from the period 2008-2017 covered by these data sources. Scopus is compared in a pairwise manner with each of the other data sources. We first analyze differences between the data sources in the coverage of documents, focusing for instance on differences over time, differences per document type, and differences per discipline. We then study differences in the completeness and accuracy of citation links. Based on our analysis, we discuss strengths and weaknesses of the different data sources. We emphasize the importance of combining a comprehensive coverage of the scientific literature with a flexible set of filters for making selections of the literature.

Lowest Paid in UK Have Suffered the Most Financially in the Pandemic, Report Finds

Lowest Paid in UK Have Suffered the Most Financially in the Pandemic, Report Finds

Joseph Rowntree Foundation says lockdowns have hit incomes of those in insecure work the hardest

Biden Will Elevate White House Science Office to Cabinet-Level

Biden Will Elevate White House Science Office to Cabinet-Level

He has selected geneticist Eric Lander, who helped map the human genome, to lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Biden Outlines $1.9 Trillion Spending Package to Combat Virus and Downturn

Biden Outlines $1.9 Trillion Spending Package to Combat Virus and Downturn

The president-elect detailed plans for an initial effort to fight the coronavirus and a subsequent one to address economic recovery.

Launching the Open Data Day 2021 Mini-grant Scheme

Launching the Open Data Day 2021 Mini-grant Scheme

We are thrilled to announce that once again the Open Knowledge Foundation is giving out mini-grants to support people hosting Open Data Day events across the world.