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Landmark 'United in Science' Report Informs Climate Action Summit
The world's leading climate science organizations have joined forces to produce a landmark new report for the United Nations Climate Action Summit, underlining the glaring - and growing gaps - between agreed targets to tackle global warming and the actual reality.
Myth-busting: All Open Access Journals Can Be Listed in DOAJ
This is a myth. People think that DOAJ exists to index all open access journals. A journal can only be indexed if it passes all of our criteria. The Directory of Everything Open Access The Director…
Guidelines on Criteria of Good Practice for Strenghtening Gender Equality Policies
Project: Adopting Open Science Practices: Researcher Perspectives on Incentives and Disincentives: A Symposium
Project: Adopting Open Science Practices: Researcher Perspectives on Incentives and Disincentives: A Symposium
An ad hoc planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public symposium in conjunction with the September 2019 meeting of the Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. The symposium will explore current barriers to adopting open science practices and how they might be addressed.
Sweden's New Read & Publish Agreement
The Bibsam Consortium in Sweden signed a new tranformative Read & Publish agreement with academic publisher Springer Nature. It covers rights to publish in over 1,800 hybrid journals at no extra cost for the author as well as reading rights for over 2,100 journals since 1997.
What to Consider when Asked to Peer Review a Manuscript
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) discuss what you should consider when you are asked to peer review a manuscript.
All the Ways Student Debt Exacerbates Racial Inequality - 'It's Like Landing in Quick Sand'
All the Ways Student Debt Exacerbates Racial Inequality - 'It's Like Landing in Quick Sand'
The factors are complicated, but they tie broadly back to America's history of systemic racism.
Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Things
The Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Global Sprint was held online over the course of two-days (29-30 November 2018), where participants from around the world were invited to develop brief guides (stand alone, self paced training materials), called "Things", that can be used by the research community to understand FAIR in different contexts as well as some initial steps to consider.
Universities Look to Add More Support For First-Generation Graduate Students
Universities Look to Add More Support For First-Generation Graduate Students
"My family didn't understand the internship process or why I wasn’t getting paid yet. That causes some psychological distress."
Transformation: The Future of Society Publishing
The release in September 2018 of Plan S has led many small and society publishers to examine their business models, and in particular ways to transform their journals from hybrids into pure Open Access (OA) titles. This paper explores one means by which a society publisher might transform.
Bulgaria's Mariya Gabriel Picked to Run Horizon Europe
The incoming president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, nominated Bulgaria's Mariya Gabriel to take charge of research, innovation and education, but has scotched research from the name of the brief for the first time, relabelling it the 'Innovation and Youth' portfolio.
Cantwell Wants Hearings on Political Pressure on Scientists
Sen. Maria Cantwell calls for committee hearings on whether Trump administration is trying to "undermine science."
Chief Scientist Investigating NOAA's Backing of Trump over Experts on Dorian
Chief Scientist Investigating NOAA's Backing of Trump over Experts on Dorian
The acting chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) is investigating whether the agency's response to President Trump's claims about Hurricane Dorian constituted a violation of policies and ethics.
Boosting Culture, Heritage, Science and Innovation in the Netherlands
The Government of the Netherlands has launched a funding drive to support culture and heritage sectors, as well as in science and innovation.
UK Priorities for Science, Research and Innovation
The UK is focusing on international partnerships and ground-breaking sector deals in order to remain a global leader in science
An Intimate Insight on Psychopathy and a Novel Hermeneutic Psychological Science
An Intimate Insight on Psychopathy and a Novel Hermeneutic Psychological Science
This paper is rather a profound hermeneutic enunciation putting into question our present understanding of psychopathy. It further articulates, in complement, a novel theoretical and methodological conceptualisation for a hermeneutic psychological science.
Legal Compendium on Open Science: Guideline Answers Legal Questions
With this compendium, the Hamburg Open Science Programme aims to provide practical support for practitioners of open science and to help remove existing obstacles on the way to greater transparency in science.
New Dimensions Partnership with ISSI Makes It Easy (and Free!) for Researchers to Study the Science of Science
New Dimensions Partnership with ISSI Makes It Easy (and Free!) for Researchers to Study the Science of Science
International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and Digital Science have joined forces to make Dimensions and Altmetric data available to ISSI members at scale, and at no cost for scientometric research purposes.
Researchers Awarded Prize for Promotion of Alternatives to Animal Experiments
Researchers at Eawag have been awarded the 3R Swiss Competence Centre award for their outstanding research work representing a milestone in the promotion of alternatives to animal experiments.
European Commission's Open Access Envoy Joins the COAlition S Executive Steering Group
European Commission's Open Access Envoy Joins the COAlition S Executive Steering Group
Heather Paxson on a New Model for Open-access Publishing in Anthropology
Interim head of MIT Anthropology explains the plan's vision and challenges, plus progress made at an historic MIT workshop.
WHO and TDR Join COAlition S to Support Free and Immediate Access to Health Research
WHO and TDR Join COAlition S to Support Free and Immediate Access to Health Research
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) announce they are the first of the United Nations agencies to join COAlition S. This commitment will ensure that all WHO and TDS supported health research will be free to read online on the day it is published.
7 Easy Steps to Open Science
This paper provides an introduction to open science and related reforms in the form of an annotated reading list of seven peer-reviewed articles.
Mixed Reception for German Open Access Deal with Springer Nature
Springer Nature has reached an open access publishing deal with 700 German research universities, but it faces some pushback.
COAlition S Appoints Johan Rooryck As Open Access Champion
cOAlition S announces that Johan Rooryck, Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University, has been appointed as its Open Access Champion.
Knowledge in the dark: scientific challenges and ways forward
A key dimension of our current era is Big Data, the rapid rise in produced data and information; a key frustration is that we are nonetheless living in an age of ignorance, as the real knowledge and understanding of people does not seem to be substantially increasing. This development has critical consequences.
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