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UK Commits to International Research and Innovation Strategy
New International Research and Innovation Strategy launched to ensure the UK remains a global leader in science.
Science Says: Why Biodiversity Matters to You
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report points to more than 2,500 wars and other conflicts over fossil fuels, water, food and land to show how important nature is.
6 Innovations from the Humanities That Make Open Access Publishing a Reality to Everyone
6 Innovations from the Humanities That Make Open Access Publishing a Reality to Everyone
Some of the most successful free-to-publish Open Access endeavors have been emerging from arts and humanities in response to the particular needs of the humanities scholars concerning publishing formats, academic evaluation, and funding availability.
Academics Raise Concerns About Predatory Journals on PubMed
The National Library of Medicine has quality control procedures in place, but some researchers believe additional scrutiny is necessary.
DORA - Accentuating the Positive - DORA
DORA is sometimes taken to be an initiative merely focused on criticising the undue influence of one specific metric, the journal impact factor (JIF). But to see DORA just in those terms overlooks the many positive prescriptions that the declaration lays out for how to reform research assessment.
Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis
Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis
Increases in APCs is proceeding at a rate three times that which would be expected if APCs were indexed according to inflation. As increasingly ambitious funder mandates are proposed, such as Plan S, it is important to evaluate whether authors show signs of price sensitivity in journal selection by avoiding journals that introduce or increase their APCs.
A Faster Path to an Open Future
At Springer Nature we want to find the fastest and most effective route to immediate open access (OA) for all primary research. This blog describes a potential significant way to progress it.
Open Call: Become a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow
Open Call: Become a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow
The Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellows Program, supported by the Sloan Foundation, aims to train graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career researchers how to become champions for open, reproducible research using Frictionless Data tools and approaches in their field.
No Amount of Open Access Will Fix the Broken Job Market
Open access has always been promoted for its reputational benefits. The OA citation advantage is one way in which advocates try to convince researchers of the benefits of publicly sharing their work. But researchers are also motivated by the need to publish in prestigious and ‘high-impact’ venues, which often precludes the possibility of open access forms of publication.
BISG Releases White Paper on Open Access Ebook Usage
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has published a white paper on “Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage”.
GRE Fails to Identify Successful Ph.D. Students
A team of researchers led by RIT Professor Casey Miller discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics.
The NYC March For Science Had A Lineup Of All Women Speakers
Marches were held at some 100 locations worldwide as part of a global day of action. Speakers at the NYC march touched on issues ranging from climate change and a Green New Deal to sexual harassment, gender inequity, and activism within STEM.
Why You Should Cite Open Source Tools
Open-source software is largely developed by active scientists, yet university hierarchies and national funding bodies generally do not recognise code as valuable output.
How Former Elsevier Editors Started a Community-led Publisher and Launched Their First OA Journal
How Former Elsevier Editors Started a Community-led Publisher and Launched Their First OA Journal
After serving as editor-in-chief of an Elsevier journal for over seven years, Lajos Balogh decided to channel his publishing knowledge to a new endeavor. He and a group of fellow editors started a publishing organization and journal of their own.
Common Struggles: Policy-based Vs. Scholar-led Approaches to Open Access in the Humanities
Common Struggles: Policy-based Vs. Scholar-led Approaches to Open Access in the Humanities
The thesis argues that the UK governmental policy framework promotes a form of OA that intends to minimise disruption to the publishing industry. The scholar-led ecosystem of presses, in contrast, reflects a diversity of values and struggles that represent a counter-hegemonic alternative to the dominant cultures of OA and publishing more generally.
Nominations Now Open for ORCID Board Elections 2020
The ORCID Nominations Committee is now welcoming nominations for Board members to serve from 2020 - 2022. Learn how, when and why to get involved.
How Journals and Publishers Can Help to Reform Research Assessment
How Journals and Publishers Can Help to Reform Research Assessment
It is well established that administrators and decision-makers use journal prestige and impact factors as a shortcut to assess research. But it is not enough to recognize the problem. Identifying specific approaches that publishers can take to address these concerns really is key.
Open Science Day - EPF Lausanne
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of EPFL, the important topic of open and reproducible science is given the place it deserves.
Making Science Open with the New Europe PMC Plus
We are delighted to announce the launch of the new Europe PMC Plus - the manuscript submission system for authors supported by Europe PMC funders.
An Open Toolkit for Tracking Open Science Partnership Implementation and Impact
An Open Toolkit for Tracking Open Science Partnership Implementation and Impact
An open toolkit to guide and facilitate data collection about Open Science (OS) and non-OS collaborations with the aim of measuring the implementation and impact of OS partnership across these organizations.
Researchers Meet Innovators
In this 2-day meeting participants will learn how to contribute to innovation covering a large variety of roles in the value chain.
Junior researchers often ghostwrite peer reviews
A new survey reveals the alarming extent of a practice that is universally considered unethical.
The "Impact" of the Journal Impact Factor in the Review, Tenure, and Promotion Process
The "Impact" of the Journal Impact Factor in the Review, Tenure, and Promotion Process
The Journal Impact Factor has been widely critiqued as a measure of individual academic performance. However, it is unclear whether these criticisms and high profile declarations, such as DORA, have led to significant cultural change.
What a Deleted Profile Tells Us About Wikipedia's Diversity Problem
What a Deleted Profile Tells Us About Wikipedia's Diversity Problem
Clarice Phelps may have been the first African-American woman to help discover a chemical element. For Wikipedia, that wasn't enough.
New Preprint: Scholar-Led Publishing and the Pre-History of the Open Access Movement
New Preprint: Scholar-Led Publishing and the Pre-History of the Open Access Movement
There is an often-neglected pre-history of open access that can be found in the early DIY publishers of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, including involvement of the humanities and social sciences. Policymakers are advised to keep in mind this separate lineage in the history of open access as the movement goes mainstream.
Swiss Consortium Pledges 216,000 Eur to DOAJ and SHERPA/RoMEO
The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries, comprising sixteen libraries and the Swiss National Science Foundation, is the third national consortium to commit to the SCOSS initiative.
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