Plan S and Open Access in Latin America
Open Access publishing is more widespread in Latin America than in any other region of the world, and continues to grow. We sat down with CLACSO's Open Access Advisor Dominique Babini to find out why.
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Can Machines Determine the Credibility of Research Claims?
The Center for Open Science (COS) has been selected to participate in DARPA’s new program Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE).
The Game is Changing: How Two Years of Trump Has Energized the Science Community
The Game is Changing: How Two Years of Trump Has Energized the Science Community
Two years into the Trump administration the damage done to science is significant but it would have been far worse without thousands of scientists and their allies calling out attacks on science and detailing the consequences of these attacks for public health and safety.
Research Funding Programmes Aiming for Societal Transformations: Ten Key Stages
Research Funding Programmes Aiming for Societal Transformations: Ten Key Stages
Societal issues such as poverty, water scarcity, and food insecurity make it more important than ever for science to produce knowledge that is relevant to address serious challenges on the ground.
Open Access Working Group: Statement on Plan S Guidelines - LIBER
The recently published guidance for the implementation of Plan S offers welcome new details on how full and immediate Open Access to research publications would be achieved under this new initiative.
U.Va. report: Med students believe black people feel less pain than whites
New research is out that could help explain why African Americans are often undertreated for pain, as various studies have shown.
Imagine a Research Future Defined by Open Values: Introducing the Open Science MOOC
Imagine a Research Future Defined by Open Values: Introducing the Open Science MOOC
Image: UN Sustainable Development Goals https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ The world of research is not working as well as it could be. On all sides we see issues with reproducibility, questionable research practices, barriers and walls, wasteful research, and flawed incentive and reward systems. If we want research to be more effective in helping to solve the problems …
Europe Wrestles with a Plan to Build the 'Amazon of Science'
The European Open Science Cloud is a giant effort to provide a single point of access to all scientific data. But getting all the infrastructures to integrate and engendering a culture of sharing is a daunting task, say those involved in its creation.
Responsible Research and Innovation - A Quick Start Guide for Science Engagement Organisations,
Responsible Research and Innovation - A Quick Start Guide for Science Engagement Organisations,
Making science engaging is vital work, but fraught with challenges. How do you stay relevant in your local community? How do you ensure activities are designed in a way that places the needs and preferences of multiple target audiences at their centre? How do you find new collaborators and effectively expand your network? If you work for a science engagement organisation and need some support or just a little direction, this quick start guide to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) will help.
VSNU Statement on Plan S: Ambitions Remain High, Transition Will Require Due Care
The VSNU endorses the objectives of and has been actively involved in the developments on Open Science as stated in the National Plan Open Science (NPOS). Open Science aims to bring about a fundamental improvement of science by making the scientific process transparent and ensuring that research output is widely available.
Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor: Where Are We At?
Proponents of Open Science criticise the fact that Elsevier, one of the chief opponents to the progress of Open Science, will be helping to monitor the future of Open Science in Europe.
Is Journal Peer-Review Now Just a Game?
Milton Packer wonders if the time has come for instant replay.
Evidence Vs Democracy: What Are We Doing to Bridge the Divide?
The ecidence movmeent must respond to the ‘politics of distrust’. We cannot carry on regardless.
Leveraging Concepts in Open Access Publications
This paper addresses the integration of a Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation (NERD) service within a group of open access (OA) publishing digital platforms and considers its potential impact on both research and scholarly publishing.
Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development
Completed revised second draft of a document that aims to agree on a broad, international strategy for the implementation of open scholarship that meets the needs of different national and regional communities but works globally.
Open Access Books Attract Many More Readers and Slightly More Citations
Academics who offer their books free online reach many more readers and are cited slightly more often. Surprisingly enough, it has little effect on the sale of paper editions, positive or negative.
Profiles Not Metrics
Clarivate Analytics' Institute for Scientific Information Launches Global Research Report titled Profiles Not Metrics.
A Response to UCL's "Response to Plan S"
A response from Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at the Wellcome Trust, to UCL’s “Response to Plan S”.
Good Practice Principles for Scholarly Communication Services
Good Practice Principles for Scholarly Communication Services
Science and scholarship are critical to improving our lives and solving the world’s most intractable problems. The communication of research, a vital step in the research process, should be efficient, effective and fulfill the core values of scholarship.
Plan U
Plan U: A proposal to achieve universal access to scientific and medical research via funder preprint mandates.
Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation
Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation
Quantitative performance ratings are ubiquitous in modern organizations — from businesses to universities — yet there is substantialevidence of bias against women in suchratings. This study examines how gender inequalities in evaluations dependon the design of the tools used to judge merit.
FinELib's Negotiations with Taylor & Francis Hit a Wall - FinELib
Negotiations between the FinELib consortium and Taylor & Francis ended with no positive results. The end of the negotiations means that access to Taylor & Francis journals will end on 1 February 2019.
PRESS RELEASE: Researchers Respond to Implementation of Plan S | Eurodoc
Read the joint response to the implementation guidance forPlan S as issued by three organisations representing early-career and senior researchers in Europe.
AmeliCA Vs Plan S: Same Target, Two Different Strategies to Achieve Open Access
AmeliCA is a multi-institutional community-driven initiative supported by UNESCO that arises in response to the international, regional, national and institutional contexts of Open Access, which seeks a collaborative, sustainable, protected and non-commercial solution for Open Knowledge in Latin America and the Global South.
Meet Dr Emine Yaman, New Dean at International University of Sarajevo!
Meet Dr Emine Yaman, New Dean at International University of Sarajevo!
International University of Sarajevo (IUS) is the only university in the West Balkans that created and is implementing a Gender Equality Plan in higher education.
Progressing Towards Transparency - More Journals Join Wiley's Transparent Peer Review Pilot
Progressing Towards Transparency - More Journals Join Wiley's Transparent Peer Review Pilot
Wiley claim they are committed to moving towards greater openness and reproducibility of research, including increasing transparency in peer review
Additional Points in My Plan S Response
Further to my other post earlier this week, I have added the additional points to my response letter to the Plan S implementation guidelines. These centre around monographs (9), REF involvement in Plan S (10), infrastructural support (11), the "time of publication" (12), clarification of the term "quality" (13), compliance of existing software with repository requirements (14), publisher deposition (15), and the ability to pursue defamation suits for wrongful attribution and reputational damage with the waiver of moral rights under CC BY 4.0 (16). If number 16 could be resolved, the open licensing landscape would be much clearer. The full letter is now available.
Wellcome Open Research: Summary of Year 2
Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome and Michael Markie, Publishing Director, F1000 highlight Wellcome Open Research's achievements after two years of publishing.
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