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Retractions

Research Linking Violent Entertainment to Aggression Retracted After Scrutiny

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Research Linking Violent Entertainment to Aggression Retracted After Scrutiny

Questioned psychology papers linger on in meta-analyses.

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UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

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International

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.

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Science Communication

Open-source Community Call: The Latest Developments in Open Publishing and Research Communication

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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.

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Open Access
Publishing
UKRI

The Publisher's Association's Impact Assessment on OA is Pretty Much As You'd Expect

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Publishing
UKRI

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.

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Plan S
Open Access

Explaining the Rights Retention Strategy

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Open Access

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.

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Conference
COVID-19

A Year of Virtual Science Conferences: How Are You Managing?

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Conference
COVID-19

A Year of Virtual Science Conferences: How Are You Managing?

Nature is polling readers about the move to online meetings during the COVID pandemic.

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COVID-19

The Coronavirus is Here to Stay - Here's What That Means

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COVID-19

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.

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COVID-19

The Myth of 'Good Covid Vaccines' and 'Bad Covid Vaccines'

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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.

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Libraries

Zotero for iOS Beta

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Zotero for iOS Beta

The Zotero iOS app is coming soon.

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Open Access
Africa

AfricArXiv - the African Preprint Repository - AfricArXiv on OSF (2020)

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Africa

AfricArXiv - the African Preprint Repository - AfricArXiv on OSF (2020)

Contribute to covering the fees for AfricArXiv preprint hosting on the Open Science Framework (OSF).

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Metrics

Bibliometrics in Academic Recruitment: A Screening Tool Rather Than a Game Changer

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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.

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Science

We Need a Global Science Panel on Chemicals and Waste

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Science

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.

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COVID-19

Widely Shared Vitamin D-COVID-19 Preprint Removed from Lancet Server

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COVID-19

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.

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Evaluation
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Linguistics of Science

When More is More: Broad Calls for Multilingualism and Evaluation Reform

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Linguistics of Science

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.

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Repositories

Persistent Identifiers Connect a Scholarly Record with Many Versions

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Repositories

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.

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Early Career Researchers

HHMI Commits $30 Million to Increase Diversity in Science with 21 Hanna Gray Fellows

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Biomedicine
Early Career Researchers

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.

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Preprints

Preprints in Motion: Tracking Changes Between Posting and Journal Publication

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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.

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Science

Science Needs a Radical Overhaul

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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.

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Society
COVID-19

We’ve Been Cooped up With Our Families for Almost a Year. This Is the Result.

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Society
COVID-19

We’ve Been Cooped up With Our Families for Almost a Year. This Is the Result.

What the data says about forced togetherness amid a pandemic.

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China

EU Says It Can Exclude China from EU Research Projects

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China

EU Says It Can Exclude China from EU Research Projects

The European Commission says it can exclude Chinese participation in Horizon Europe and other sensitive research projects using new powers to exclude third countries that do not share ‘EU values’.

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Biomedicine

Drug Companies Look to AI to End 'Hit and Miss' Research

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Biomedicine

Drug Companies Look to AI to End 'Hit and Miss' Research

Technology that speeded the development of Covid vaccines has potential to transform the pharmaceutical industry.

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Preprints

Is Preprint the Future of Science? A Thirty Year Journey of Online Preprint Services

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Is Preprint the Future of Science? A Thirty Year Journey of Online Preprint Services

Preprints make scholarly communication more efficient by disseminating scientific discoveries more rapidly. The measurements presented in this study can help researchers and policymakers make informed decisions about how to effectively use and responsibly embrace a preprint culture.

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Economics
Gender
Equality

For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open

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Economics
Gender
Equality

For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open

Studies have found that the field is plagued by a singular problem of gender bias. The latest evidence comes from the types of questions posed at seminars.

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Universities
Diversity

Race on Campus: Why Faculty Diversity Remains Largely a Zero-Sum Game

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Universities
Diversity

Race on Campus: Why Faculty Diversity Remains Largely a Zero-Sum Game

Without more people of color pursuing doctoral degrees, the talent pool will stay predominantly white.

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Racism
Life Science
Medicine
Publishing

The Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals

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Racism
Life Science
Medicine
Publishing

The Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals

For many years and increasingly in the last year, the JAMA Network journals have published many important articles addressing disparities and racism in medical education, research, and health care and highlighting initiatives to help address deep-rooted inequities.

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Early Career Researchers
Life Science

Early-Career Advisory Group: Applications Open for Candidates to Join in 2021

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Early Career Researchers
Life Science

Early-Career Advisory Group: Applications Open for Candidates to Join in 2021

The Early-Career Advisory Group is looking for five early-career researchers to join our advisory group and help us realise our mission to transform research communication.

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Astronomy

Perseverance's Eyes See a Different Mars

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Astronomy

Perseverance's Eyes See a Different Mars

The Red Planet's red looks different to an Earthling than it would to a Martian-or to a robot with hyperspectral cameras for eyes.

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EU
Switzerland
Horizon Europe

Israel, Switzerland and UK to Join Horizon Europe by End of Year

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Switzerland
Horizon Europe

Israel, Switzerland and UK to Join Horizon Europe by End of Year

The UK's association to Horizon Europe has been agreed "in principle" and awaits Parliament's scrutiny, while agreements with Israel and Switzerland could be finalised by the end of the year.

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Science Communication

Science Journalism Master Class Now Available

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Science Communication

Science Journalism Master Class Now Available

The first of "The Open Notebooks" Science Journalism Master Classes, "How to Find an Angle for Any Science Story," launches. The free, hands-on classes are designed to help science writers at all levels of experience sharpen their skills.

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Workshop
Science Communication

The Future of Scholarly Communication - Workshop 24–26 February 2021

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Workshop
Science Communication

The Future of Scholarly Communication - Workshop 24–26 February 2021

OPERAS-P, an H2020 project coordinated by CNRS, is organising a workshop Future of scholarly communication, which will be dedicated to discussing the outcomes of the research undertaken in the project's Work Package 6 (Innovation).

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