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Science Needs a Radical Overhaul
Illusions of discovery are holding science back. But even if we wanted to do the right thing and evaluate scientific papers based on their quality, regardless of how flashy and exciting the claims of discovery may be, it’s not clear how we’d do that.
Preprints in Motion: Tracking Changes Between Posting and Journal Publication
Preprints in Motion: Tracking Changes Between Posting and Journal Publication
Study utilised a combination of automatic and manual annotations to quantify how an article from early 2020 changed between the preprinted and published version.
Bibliometrics in Academic Recruitment: A Screening Tool Rather Than a Game Changer
Bibliometrics in Academic Recruitment: A Screening Tool Rather Than a Game Changer
Paper concludes that metrics were applied chiefly as a screening tool to decrease the number of eligible candidates and not as a replacement for peer review.
HHMI Commits $30 Million to Increase Diversity in Science with 21 Hanna Gray Fellows
HHMI Commits $30 Million to Increase Diversity in Science with 21 Hanna Gray Fellows
HHMI announces the selection of 21 exceptional early career scientists as 2020 Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in biomedical research. The 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program competition will open later this year.
Persistent Identifiers Connect a Scholarly Record with Many Versions
In the past few months, we've seen large commercial publishers express renewed concern that sharing author manuscripts in open repositories threatens the scholarly record because multiple versions undermine the "version of record". However, establishing and maintaining relationships to other versions of articles or research assets has already been shown to be successful in disciplinary and scholarly communities.
When More is More: Broad Calls for Multilingualism and Evaluation Reform
When More is More: Broad Calls for Multilingualism and Evaluation Reform
In recent years, numerous initiatives have highlighted linguistic biases embedded in current evaluation processes and have called for change. The DORA-hosted community discussion on multilingualism in scholarly evaluation was inspired by actions others have taken to address these issues.
Widely Shared Vitamin D-COVID-19 Preprint Removed from Lancet Server
A preprint promoted by a member of the UK Parliament for claiming to show that vitamin D led to an “80% reduction in need for ICU and a 60% reduction in deaths” has been removed from a server used by The Lancet family of journals.
We Need a Global Science Panel on Chemicals and Waste
Chemical pollution is a global threat that demands for global action, says Zhanyun Wang. An interface body similar to the IPCC could help bridge the gap between science and policy.
The Coronavirus is Here to Stay - Here's What That Means
A Nature survey shows many scientists expect the virus that causes COVID-19 to become endemic, but it could pose less danger over time.
Explaining the Rights Retention Strategy
Unpacking each word -- rights, retention, and strategy -- enables understanding what this policy is and how it functions within the Plan S compliance framework.
A Year of Virtual Science Conferences: How Are You Managing?
Nature is polling readers about the move to online meetings during the COVID pandemic.
The Myth of 'Good Covid Vaccines' and 'Bad Covid Vaccines'
Experts fear false narratives about vaccines could slow down the task of inoculating people and create other problems in the future.
AfricArXiv - the African Preprint Repository - AfricArXiv on OSF (2020)
Contribute to covering the fees for AfricArXiv preprint hosting on the Open Science Framework (OSF).
Research Linking Violent Entertainment to Aggression Retracted After Scrutiny
Questioned psychology papers linger on in meta-analyses.
Open-source Community Call: The Latest Developments in Open Publishing and Research Communication
Open-source Community Call: The Latest Developments in Open Publishing and Research Communication
Join the next call on open research communication projects to share and discuss emerging projects and significant updates for ongoing ones.
UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
At the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Conference, 193 Members States tasked the Organization with the development of an international standard-setting instrument on Open Science in the form of a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to be adopted by Member States in 2021.
A Training Discovery Toolkit for the Social Sciences and Humanities
A Training Discovery Toolkit for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Finding and reusing train-the-trainer materials in Social Sciences and Humanities: The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit The Training Discovery Toolkit is an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers of different disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can use to find materials for re-use in their own training activities.
Europe Launches Recruitment Drive for Female and Disabled Astronauts
European Space Agency aims to take on 26 people for missions to the Moon and eventually to Mars
The Publisher's Association's Impact Assessment on OA is Pretty Much As You'd Expect
The Publisher's Association's Impact Assessment on OA is Pretty Much As You'd Expect
The UK Publisher's Association has commissioned a report that seems to be their latest attempt at painting open access to research as economically damaging to the publishing sector.
Can We Use Google Scholar to Identify Highly-cited Documents?
The main objective of this paper is to empirically test whether the identification of highly-cited documents through Google Scholar is feasible and reliable.
'New Car Smell' Is The Scent of Carcinogens, And Even Short Trips May Overexpose Us
'New Car Smell' Is The Scent of Carcinogens, And Even Short Trips May Overexpose Us
The average American spends almost one hour each day commuting to work, a number that adds up quickly.
UK to Infect Up to 90 Healthy Volunteers with Covid in World First Trial
Covid human challenge study to start in weeks and will expose adults to virus in controlled environment.
Universities Need to Wise Up - or Risk Being Consigned to History
The pandemic has shown that other ways of teaching and learning are possible
English Departments Rethink What to Call Themselves
English departments rethink what to call themselves in light of how diverse they've become.
How the World is Adapting to Preprints
Preprint servers have become an indispensable part of scholarly publishing. The next step is learning how to embrace them.