Open and Replicable Science Cannot Save Us from Academia
Researchers have tried for at least 200 years to change academia and they have all failed, claims opinion piece.
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Collaboration Without Elsevier is the Key to Open Access and Open Science
Comment on a Times Higher Education on a strange and awkward piece from a representative of Elsevier.
Systematic Literature Review of "Teaching Open Science"
A call for people who would like to join a collaborative process to further explore and write the systematic literature review on “Teaching Open Science“.
Reproducible Research and GIScience: an Evaluation Using AGILE Conference Papers
Reproducible Research and GIScience: an Evaluation Using AGILE Conference Papers
We reviewed current recommendations for reproducible research and translated them into criteria for assessing the reproducibility of articles in the field of geographic information science (GIScience). Results from the author feedback indicate that although authors support the concept of performing reproducible research, the incentives for doing this in practice are too small. Therefore, we propose concrete actions for individual researchers and the GIScience conference series to improve transparency and reproducibility.
Digitisation of Higher Education: Systemic Framework Conditions and Influencing Political Factors
Digitisation of Higher Education: Systemic Framework Conditions and Influencing Political Factors
Which factors have a strong systemic influence on the digitisation of higher education? Which can be influenced politically? The authors look at areas of action related to open science and discuss the extent to which future scenarios such as “disruption" can endanger university locations.
Scientists Join the Global Climate Strike - March For Science
Over the last year, millions of school climate strikers have been leaving their classrooms every Friday. Young people have woken up much of the world, and now they are asking for everyone else to join them in action.
The Dubious Practice of University Rankings
Ellen Hazelkorn takes a look at the accuracy of university rankings from an international perspective.
Can We Transform Scholarly Communication with Open Source and Community‐Owned Infrastructure?
Can We Transform Scholarly Communication with Open Source and Community‐Owned Infrastructure?
The Science of Gun Violence
A growing chorus of researchers wants to study gun violence in the U.S. as a public health issue, similar to the way they have tracked automobile or workplace safety for decades.
Mind the Gap
A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms catalogs and analyzes all available open-source software for publishing and warns that open publishing must grapple with the dual challenges of siloed development and organization of the community-owned ecosystem
Preregistration Is Hard - And Worthwhile
Making decisions before conducting analyses requires practice. Respecting both what was planned and what actually happened requires good judgment and humility in making claims. With the accelerating adoption of preregistration, we now face the challenge of figuring out how to use this methodology to its fullest potential.
Desperately Seeking Scientists
When so many email addresses on journal articles don't work, we have a problem.
Medicine Ignored Women's Health for Years - That's Finally Changing
For decades, the medical field has dismissed female health concerns. Women have been told that they’re imagining signs of heart attacks and other life-threatening ailments and had few resources devoted to researching their medical problems, but, at last, that seems to be changing.
SpringerOpen Pricing Trends 2018 - 2019
Of the 215 active journals published by SpringerOpen, 54% charge APCs. The average APC was 1,212 EUR, an increase of 8% over the 2018 average, 6 times the EU inflation rate for June 2019 of 1.3%.
Research Outputs Find a Home at IndiaRxiv
Open Access India partners with the Center for Open Science to launch IndiaRxiv on the eve of India’s 73rd Independence Day as the country joins the global march for open science.
Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines
Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines
A comprehensive analysis of longitudinal gender discrepancies in performance through a bibliometric analysis of academic careers.
Criteria for Assessing Grant Applications: A Systematic Review
Identification and synthetisation of studies that examine grant peer review criteria in an empirical and inductive manner.
The Odds Are Stacked Against Black, Latino Students Going to Grad School. Here Are Some Solutions
The Odds Are Stacked Against Black, Latino Students Going to Grad School. Here Are Some Solutions
A handful of universities are trying to help more black and Hispanic students get into and through graduate school, where they enroll in disproportionately low numbers. This is a problem not only for the students, but for the schools themselves and for employers who need workers with graduate educations.
UC Faculty to Elsevier: Restart Negotiations, or else
Prominent UC faculty suspend service on editorial boards of Cell Press journals to bring publisher Elsevier back to the bargaining table.
What's Next for OpenCon: Putting Equity at the Core
OpenCon works to make research & education more open and equitable.
China: New Regulations for Human Gene Research
Jaqueline Zhao and Tim Jackson discuss the new regulations for China in 2019, after the gene-editing scandal which created international headlines.
Why We Need to Keep Talking About Equality in Physics
Jess Wade and Maryam Zaringhalam discuss the implications of poor diversity in physics - and what can be done to create a level playing field in the subject
The Impact of Open Access on Teaching-How Far Have We Come?
How far has the United Kingdom higher education (UK HE) sector progressed towards open access (OA) availability of the scholarly literature it requires to support courses of study?
Misconduct Investigators, Show Your Work
Weighting transparency and confidentiality in scientific misconduct investigations.
Open Access for Monographs: Small Steps Along a Difficult Path
Since 2018, open access has also gained momentum with regards to monographs, now that a significant proportion of journal articles is already available in open access.
A Literature Review of Scholarly Communications Metadata
The purpose of this literature review is to identify the challenges, opportunities, and gaps in knowledge with regard to the use of metadata in scholarly communications. This paper compiles and interprets literature in sections based on the professional groups, or stakeholders, within scholarly communications metadata: researchers, funders, publishers, librarians, service providers, and data curators.
First Article Published in UCL's Open Access Megajournal
UCL's new megajournal 'UCL Open' has published its first article, delivering on our commitment to provide academics, students and the general public with ground-breaking research free of charge.
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