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#DontLeaveItToGoogle: How Open Infrastructures Enable Continuous Innovation in the Research Workflow

#DontLeaveItToGoogle: How Open Infrastructures Enable Continuous Innovation in the Research Workflow

Closed and proprietary infrastructures limit the accessibility of research, often putting paywalls in front of scientific knowledge. But they also severely limit reuse, preventing other tools from building on top of their software, data, and content. The presentation demonstrates how open infrastructures can help us move beyond this issue and create an ecosystem that is community-driven and community-owned.

An Interview With the Plan S Implementation Committee's David Sweeney

An Interview With the Plan S Implementation Committee's David Sweeney

'My question for those who say it's too tight a time scale,' says Plan S task force co-chair David Sweeney, 'is how long do you want?'

Science Should Be More Helpful to New Parents

Science Should Be More Helpful to New Parents

We need paid leave so young researchers can start families without abandoning STEM careers.

Horizon Europe Will Connect the Public to European Science - Carlos Moedas

Horizon Europe Will Connect the Public to European Science - Carlos Moedas

The next European science and research funding programme, known as Horizon Europe, is designed to connect people with the achievements financed by their tax money, and to fix problems with innovation funding, according to Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation.

EPFL and ETHZ Introduce a Joint Master's Degree in Cyber Security

EPFL and ETHZ Introduce a Joint Master's Degree in Cyber Security

The two technical universities have teamed up to offer a new Master’s program that will train cyber security engineers. The program will kick off in the 2019–20 school year.

The Time Efficiency Gain in Sharing and Reuse of Research Data

The Time Efficiency Gain in Sharing and Reuse of Research Data

Sharing research data can cause an efficiency revenue for the scientific community. However, this is not a given in all modeled scenarios. 

Open Access Task Force Releases Draft Recommendations

Open Access Task Force Releases Draft Recommendations

The MIT community is invited to comment on ways to increase sharing of research, data, software, and more.

Inspiration, Humility, Hope, and Sadness: Reflections on the Youth Climate Strike

Inspiration, Humility, Hope, and Sadness: Reflections on the Youth Climate Strike

Last Friday, hundreds of thousands of students in the United States and around the world were out in the streets rather than in their classrooms, demanding that our political leaders address the climate crisis with the urgency and focused action that the science so clearly demands.

Statement of Scientists and Scholars Concerning the Protests for More Climate Protection - #scientists4future

Statement of Scientists and Scholars Concerning the Protests for More Climate Protection - #scientists4future

The concerns of the young protesters are justified.

​Norwegian Research Institutions Have Decided Not to Renew Their Agreement with Elsevier

​Norwegian Research Institutions Have Decided Not to Renew Their Agreement with Elsevier

The offer from Elsevier is a long way from fulfilling the Norwegian requirements for open access to research articles. There is also no movement in transitioning the agreement from paying to read to paying for open publishing. Norwegian research institutions will therefore not renew the agreement with Elsevier for 2019. 

Science and Politics: Can Research into Legislative Decision-making Help to Address Food Security?

Science and Politics: Can Research into Legislative Decision-making Help to Address Food Security?

Policymakers need to be encouraged to take a scientic approach when drawing up legislation to boost food security, according to a panel of experts.

Debunking Pseudo-science | Canadian Lawyer Mag

Debunking Pseudo-science | Canadian Lawyer Mag

For those trained in the sciences and the practice of law, where skepticism, logical reasoning and critical thinking are the most closely held tools to guide them through life, it's vexing to witness seemingly intelligent people duped by pseudo-scientific nutrition advice and treatments for illnesses with no evidence of effectiveness.

Scott Gottlieb's Sudden Resignation Will Give Biotech a Panic Attack - STAT

Scott Gottlieb's Sudden Resignation Will Give Biotech a Panic Attack - STAT

With Gottlieb on his way out, many will recall the other frontrunners before he got the job who were eager to dismantle the FDA oversight process.

International Differences in Basic Research Grant Funding - a Systematic Comparison

International Differences in Basic Research Grant Funding - a Systematic Comparison

Using a structured systematic comparative approach, this study analyses differences in basic research grant funding between the main academic research funding agency of Germany and the main agencies of five other countries, including the Swiss National Science Foundation. 

How Publishers Keep Fooling Academics

How Publishers Keep Fooling Academics

Time and time again, academic publishers have managed to create the impression that publishing incurs a lot of costs which justify the outrageous prices they charge, even though it is well established that the cost of making an article public with all the bells and whistles that come with an academic article is between US$/€200-500.

OpenCitations - CROCI

OpenCitations - CROCI

CROCI, the Crowdsourced Open Citations Index, is a new OpenCitations Index containing citations deposited by individuals, identified by ORCiD identifiers, who have a legal right to publish them under a CC0 public domain waiver.

UC Terminates Subscriptions with World's Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access to Publicly Funded Research

UC Terminates Subscriptions with World's Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access to Publicly Funded Research

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC's key goal: securing universal open access to UC research while containing the rapidly escalating costs associated with for-profit journals.

Guidelines for Open Peer Review Implementation

Guidelines for Open Peer Review Implementation

Open peer review (OPR) is moving into the mainstream, but it is often poorly understood and surveys of researcher attitudes show important barriers to implementation. There is a clear need for best practice guidelines for implementation.