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AHA Expresses Concerns About Potential Impact of Plan S on the Humanities
The AHA fully supports broad access to the resources required to create new knowledge and share it as widely as possible. However, concerns about the principles set out in Plan S have led the AHA to write a letter to Coalition S members regarding the potential for harm to humanities scholarship.
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Bias Against Female Scientists Revealed in Study of Canadian Grants Program
Female scientists are less likely to win research dollars from the federal government's grant agency (CIHR), when the grant application is reviewed based on the scientist leading the project, rather than the proposal.
FOSTER/OpenAIRE Moderated Course on Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020
FOSTER/OpenAIRE Moderated Course on Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020
Are you participating in a H2020 funded project? Would you like to know more on how to comply with the H2020 Open Access mandate? Join in this moderated FOSTER/OpenAIRE Course on Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020.
ELife Ambassadors: Introducing ECRcentral
The community-curated website aims to connect early-career researchers with funding opportunities, useful resources and each other.
Main Outcomes of NWO/ZonMw Consultation Meeting on Plan S
On the 31th of January NWO and ZonMw organised a consultation meeting as part of the public feedback on the implementation of Plan S. The meeting was very well attended with over 250 people representing all segments of the Dutch research community.
OPERAS Declaration on the Plan S Implementation Guidance
OPERAS, the European research infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in the Social Sciences and Humanities, provides its recommendations to the guidance document on the implementation of Plan S.
Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication
Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication
The Report of the Expert Group to the European Commission proposes a vision for the future of scholarly communication. It examines the current system and its main actors and puts forward recommendations.
Scientists Don't Stay for Long in Their Jobs Anymore: Study
Plus, more scientists nowadays spend their entire careers in supporting roles, rather than leading their own research programs.
Swiss Universities Fear EU Science Funding Snub
Swiss universities fear losing out on the European Union's "Horizon Europe" science research funding pot.
The Emotional Toll of Graduate School
Mental health disorders and depression are far more likely for grad students than they are for the average American.
Request for Feedback on Grant Identifier Metadata
We first announced plans to investigate identifiers for grants in 2017 and are almost ready to violate the first rule of grant identifiers which is “they probably should not be called grant identifiers”.
OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance
As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the of the OA journal output in the DOAJ*, OASPA is of course very supportive of the intentions of Plan S, as we commented previously at the beginning of October.
We Need to Talk About Fraud in Science
Unlike most faulty research practices, fraud actively evades detection. It is also overlooked because the scientific community has been unwilling to have frank and open discussions about it.
2019 EUA Workshop on Research Assessment in the Transition to Open Science
2019 EUA Workshop on Research Assessment in the Transition to Open Science
EUA is organising a series of workshops raising awareness and fostering discussion on research assessment reform. The 2019 edition will focus on research evaluation for the purpose of recruitment and career progression of researchers.
Q&A Adam Russell: The Search for Automated Tools to Rate Research Reproducibility
Q&A Adam Russell: The Search for Automated Tools to Rate Research Reproducibility
A US project is exploring the use of software to assign confidence levels to published research.
Advancing Women in Science, Medicine, and Global Health
Selected content, organised by theme and published across the Lancet family of journals, on issues related to gender equity and the advancement of women in science, medicine, and global health.
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).
Thousands of Scientists Run Up Against Elsevier's Paywall
Researchers have been left without access to new papers as libraries and the major publisher fail to agree on subscription deals.
Feedback to Coalition S on Plan S Implementation Guidelines
An argument that Coalition members should favour, both in words and via their spending decisions, community-controlled, no-author-fee journals over commercially owned journals charging APCs, in order to give due consideration to the non-commercial elements of the scholarly publishing ecosystem.
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.
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.
Norway Urges Students to Avoid UK Universities in Brexit Warning
Higher education minister says Norwegians should study in countries other than Britain.
Europe PMC's Response to the Implementation Guidance of Plan S
Europe PMC’s mission to support innovation based on open access content is well aligned with the fundamental principles of Plan S.
DIY Open Science Training
Take our training materials, build on our training format and organize your train-the-trainer event!
A New EPFL Fund Rewards Nine Open Science Ideas
The first call for proposal for the EPFL Open Science Fund attracted nearly 50 propositions. Nine projects were selected and will receive support to develop ideas fostering open and reproducible research on campus, and beyond.
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.
Austria: Five Leading Universities and Most Important Funder Unite to Support the Open Library of Humanities
Austria: Five Leading Universities and Most Important Funder Unite to Support the Open Library of Humanities
Five Austrian institutions, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as Higher Supporters, have come together to begin work on a national consortium to support the Open Library of Humanities.