Scandal-weary Swedish Government Takes over Research-fraud Investigations
The Research Misconduct Board is one of the first national agencies tasked with investigating serious research misconduct.
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Plan S: LIBER Calls on Libraries to Share Successes & Challenges On the Road to Compliance - LIBER
Plan S: LIBER Calls on Libraries to Share Successes & Challenges On the Road to Compliance - LIBER
LIBER appreciates the latest guidance, which matches its strategic goal of making Open Access the main form of scholarly communication by 2020. At the same time, it recognises the complexities and challenges faced by research libraries to implement publishing or update services to follow Plan S.
How to Start Preparing Your Journals for Plan S: A Guide for Publishers Using Scholastica
How to Start Preparing Your Journals for Plan S: A Guide for Publishers Using Scholastica
In the coming months, Scholastica will be introducing product improvements to help journals comply with the Plan S guidelines. In this post, we overview steps journals using Scholastica's open access publishing platform can take to start preparing for Plan S.
Publisher Elsevier Halts UC's Access to New Articles
Publisher Elsevier halts UC's access to new articles but UC Berkeley Library can connect readers with what they need.
Governing the Scholarly Commons: the Radical Open Access Collective - Samuel Moore
The Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC) is a community of 60+ not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. One of the aims of the collective is to legitimise scholar-led publishing as an important alternative model for open access.
What Happens when You Can See Disaster Unfolding, and Nobody Listens?
The distinct burden of being a climate scientist.
Daphne Bavelier Receives 2019 Research Prize - Jacobs Foundation
University of Geneva Professor Daphne Bavelier explores how individuals learn and adapt to changes in experience, whether induced by nature or by training.
Rate of Growth for CC BY Articles in Fully-OA Journals Continues for OASPA Members
Rate of Growth for CC BY Articles in Fully-OA Journals Continues for OASPA Members
Taking Pride in Our Researchers
To celebrate LGBTSTEM Day, our researchers talk about being #LGBT in science and engineering and why celebrating diversity is so important.
How a Long-distance Job Move Can Leave Early-career Researchers Short of Cash
How a Long-distance Job Move Can Leave Early-career Researchers Short of Cash
Without reimbursement for relocation costs, PhD students and postdocs are often forced to empty savings accounts, seek financial help or even rack up debt.
Farewell Authors, Hello Contributors
More disciplines must embrace a system of academic credit that rewards a greater range of roles more specifically.
Tree Planting 'has Mind-blowing Potential' to Tackle Climate Crisis
Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide.
The Status Quo Bias and the Uptake of Open Access
In this paper the authors argue that the linguistic framing of open access by a variety of stakeholders may inhibit the uptake of open access publishing.
Ten Simple Rules for Researchers Collaborating on Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs)
Ten Simple Rules for Researchers Collaborating on Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs)
The authors provide recommendations for a highly open and participatory interactive process of collaboration using digital tools and environments, discuss potential issues that come with working with large and diverse authoring communities, and provide possible solutions should these arise.
Eurodoc for Open Science
Eurodoc for Open Science
The collection of content related to the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers' (Eurodoc) commitment to Open Science.
Universities and Knowledge Sharing
The authors explore the extent to which universities are functioning as effective open knowledge institutions; as well as the types of information that universities, funders, and communities might need to understand an institution's open knowledge performance and how it might be improved. The challenges of data collection on open knowledge practices at scale, and across national, cultural and linguistic boundaries are also discussed.
Moving Mountains in the Knowledge Sphere: Is There a Way?
Especially in education and research, electronic resources, digital tools and novel technologies have profoundly altered the way and the speed at which we acquire and share our knowledge. However, this infrastructure goes vastly unnoticed by most of us.
Ten Hot Topics Around Scholarly Publishing
The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open Research’ has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated topics.
Migrating to Open-source Technologies
The Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt) started a year ago to mitigate anticipated software license fee increases.
Tracking the Growth of the PID Graph
The connections between scholarly resources generated by persistent identifiers (PIDs) and associated metadata form a graph: the PID Graph. Today we are announcing another important milestone: we added the required functionality to the DataCite GraphQL API that allows us to keep track of the growth of the PID Graph in terms of nodes (resources) and edges (connections).
Work Plan for Plan S
Coalition S has identified the following priorities for the next few months.
OpenCitations
OpenCitations is a scholarly infrastructure organization dedicated to open scholarship and the publication of open bibliographic and citation data as Linked Open Data using Semantic Web technologies, to the development of software tools and services that enable convenient access to these open data, and to community advocacy for open citations. This paper describes OpenCitations and its datasets, tools, services and activities.
Universities Are Economic And Knowledge Engines - A Proposed 41% Cut In Alaska Is Scary
Periodic Table of the Open Research Ecosystem
This graphic is an adaptation of Kramer and Bosman's Rainbow of open science practices and Stanley and Vandegrift's Periodic Table of Digital Research Resources. It is meant to inspire and invoke ongoing discussions about what a community- or academy-owned research infrastructure might begin to look like.
The Largest Obstacles to Open Access Are Unfamiliarity and Misunderstanding of Open Access Itself
The Largest Obstacles to Open Access Are Unfamiliarity and Misunderstanding of Open Access Itself
Explaining the current trends, issues and challenges of open access with special focus on Plan S, Plan U, article processing charges (APC), access issues and predatory publishing practices.
“No-Deal” Is a Bad Deal for Science
This factsheet of the Royal Society explains why leaving the EU with "no-deal" is a bad deal for science.
Springer Nature Signs Its First 'pure OA' Deal with Sweden's Bibsam
An agreement between publisher Springer Nature and Sweden's Bibsam consortium - made up of institutional libraries and funders - will see the two share the costs of publishing in Springer Nature's Open Access journals.
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