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Open Scholarship Knowledge Base

Open Scholarship Knowledge Base

The Open Scholarship Knowledge Base is a collaborative initiative to curate and share knowledge about the what, why, and how of open scholarship.

'People Can't Learn About Treatments They Need': Why Open Access to Medical Research Matters

'People Can't Learn About Treatments They Need': Why Open Access to Medical Research Matters

Campaigners have argued for open access to scientific research since the dawn of the internet - so why is it taking so long?

Childhood Obesity Is a Major Problem. Research Isn't Helping.

Childhood Obesity Is a Major Problem. Research Isn't Helping.

Childhood obesity is a major public health problem, and has been for some time - but something is missing with many study methods.

What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In: Quantitative Dataset

What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In: Quantitative Dataset

Here we present an anonymized version of the dataset that we collected in the quantitative phase of Wellcome's research on research culture. Additionally, we present a document detailing how the data was transformed to protect anonymity. We also present a flowchart that indicates how participants were guided to answer questions in the survey.

Tackling the Global Misinformation Crisis One Reference, One Librarian at a Time

Tackling the Global Misinformation Crisis One Reference, One Librarian at a Time

We're calling on librarians around the world to help make Wikipedia stronger than ever, in a world that needs reliable information more t…

Nobel Prize Winner Frances Arnold Retracts Paper, Here Is The Reaction

Nobel Prize Winner Frances Arnold Retracts Paper, Here Is The Reaction

Arnold's move garnered praise on Twitter and showed how scientific research needs to change.

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2019

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2019

As I do every year, I picked my ten favorite visualization projects. Here they are in no particular order.

Who Is Competing to Own Researcher Identity?

Who Is Competing to Own Researcher Identity?

The structural transition wrought by the internet continues to transform the journal-centric model of scholarly publishing into a researcher-centric model of scholarly communication. Success requires engagement with researcher identity, which is a struggle even for most of the largest publishing.

Guidance for Research Organisations on How to Implement the Principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment | Wellcome

Guidance for Research Organisations on How to Implement the Principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment | Wellcome

Draft guidance for Wellcome-funded organisations on how to implement the core principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

Gender Differences in How Scientists Present the Importance of Their Research

Gender Differences in How Scientists Present the Importance of Their Research

Do men and women differ in how positively they frame their research findings and is the positive framing of research is associated with higher downstream citations?

COAlition S Reaction to Springer Nature's Open Letter on Transformative Journals

COAlition S Reaction to Springer Nature's Open Letter on Transformative Journals

An opportunity for journals and publishers to take the bold step of changing their business model?

What Institutions Can Do to Improve Science Communication

What Institutions Can Do to Improve Science Communication

Many scientific organizations struggle with teaching and incentivizing science-communication practices. Here's what they can do differently, says communication researcher Jessica Eise.

Congress Creates Two New Bodies to Tackle Foreign Influence on U.S. Research

Congress Creates Two New Bodies to Tackle Foreign Influence on U.S. Research

Congress is set to approve a major defense bill that would establish two new high-level bodies aimed at preventing foreign governments from unfairly exploiting the U.S.

Implementing the New EU Provision That Protects the Public Domain

Implementing the New EU Provision That Protects the Public Domain

An explanation of the mandatory provision in the new Copyright Directive that ensures that faithful reproductions of public domain works of visual art cannot be subject to exclusive rights.

Proposed Schema Changes - Have Your Say - Crossref

Proposed Schema Changes - Have Your Say - Crossref

The first version of our metadata input schema (a DTD, to be specific) was created in 1999 to capture basic bibliographic information and facilitate matching DOIs to citations. Over the past 20 years the bibliographic metadata we collect has deepened, and we've expanded our schema to include funding information, license, updates, relations, and other metadata. Our schema isn't as venerable as a MARC record or as comprehensive as JATS, but it's served us well.

Keeping Up With Scientific Integrity in the US

Keeping Up With Scientific Integrity in the US

Quarterly updates on scientific integrity in the US nearly three years into the Trump administration.

Towards Responsible Research Career Assessment

Towards Responsible Research Career Assessment

Growing evidence suggests that the evaluation of researchers’ careers on the basis of narrow definitions of excellence is restricting diversity in academia, both in the development of its labour force and its approaches to address societal challenges. Recommendations are suggested for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.