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Personal integrity and local culture are key to research integrity, and bullying and harassment is the single biggest negative influence, according to a new study by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Nearly three-quarters of UK universities slipped down while Asian institutions rose.
cOAlition S announces that the tender was awarded to a consortium coordinated by OPERAS.
The research world has moved faster than many would have suspected possible in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In five months, a volume of work has been generated that even the most intensive of emergent fields have taken years to create.In our new report, How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture, we investigate the research landscape trends and cultural changes in response to COVID-19. The report includes analysis of publication trends, geographic focal points of research, and collaboration patterns.
IBM is also advocating for police reform.
SARS-CoV-2 presents an unprecedented international challenge, but it will not be the last such threat. In this article, the authors argue that the world needs to be much better prepared to rapidly detect, define and defeat future pandemics.
Wednesday June 10 has been designated a day of action in STEM and in academia in support of Black lives. Non-Black, non-Indigenous people in STEM and academia are invited to dedicate their working hours to formulating a plan of ACTION for how to join the struggle to ensure that Black lives matter.
Both hashtags trended on social media over the weekend and speak to pervasive racial inequity.
Acknowledge the history. Revise your work. Refuse to be complicit.
We are pleased to announce the next OASPA webinar which will explore recent steps to increase efficiency and speed in the publication of COVID-19 research (Wednesday 24th June 2020, 4.00 pm Central European Time).
High-level politician suggests academy deserves retribution for publishing unwelcome COVID-19 estimates.
News coverage of scientific studies can be misleading. Here's how to tell the good from the bad.
Providing open access to digitised collections has spurred creativity and research worldwide - so why are the UK's flagship museums so slow on the uptake?
Communicate your support for #BlackLivesMatter: Dos, don'ts, and resources.
Easy-to-understand comic explains how rigorous science is peer-reviewed and published. Hint: it's not via YouTube.
A platform to analyze the relationship between the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemic and the information dynamics on social media.
Senior Anthropology professors Theodore C. Bestor, Gary Urton, and John L. Comaroff have weathered allegations of sexual harassment, including some leveled by students. But affiliates said gender issues in the department stretch beyond them.
How can repositories contribute to their FAIR share? A Virtual workshop on June 1st about Equity and democratization of knowledge.
The testing project is proving to be a national model, because of the challenges the organizers overcame and what it showed about the spread of Covid-19.
Possibly the only thing spreading faster than COVID-19 is the pseudoscience about COVID-19.
The Opendata.ch 2020 Forum will explore New Data Narratives, diving in deep collaborative work, and aiming high!
Major scholarly publishers have invested substantially in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.
Join this month's webinar to hear what could be done to reform the conference experience for both organisers and participants.
