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The evolving guide on how the internet is changing research, collaboration and scholarly publishing

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The evolving guide on how the internet is changing research, collaboration and scholarly publishing

This book will give researchers, scientists, decision makers, politicians, and stakeholders an overview on the basics, the tools, and the vision behind the current changes we see in the field of knowledge creation.

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Italian scientists protest ’serious neglect’ of research

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Italian scientists protest ’serious neglect’ of research

Researchers gathered at Sapienza University of Rome last week to discuss the cuts in Italy's research budget.

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Find Your Voice

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Find Your Voice

Technology and practice can help shy and introverted researchers to succeed when reticence is risky.

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How the Trump Administration Limited the Scope of the USDA's 2020 Dietary Guidelines

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How the Trump Administration Limited the Scope of the USDA's 2020 Dietary Guidelines

The Trump administration is limiting scientific input to the 2020 dietary guidelines, raising concerns among nutrition advocates and independent experts about industry influence over healthy eating recommendations for all Americans.

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Russia's Fast-track Coronavirus Vaccine Draws Outrage over Safety

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Russia's Fast-track Coronavirus Vaccine Draws Outrage over Safety

The immunization is the first approved for widespread use but could be dangerous because it hasn't been tested in large trials, say researchers.

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Kristian Krieger and Stijn Verleyen on Mapping Europe's Science Advice Landscape

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Kristian Krieger and Stijn Verleyen on Mapping Europe's Science Advice Landscape

When it comes to science advice infrastructure, Europe is far from a unified whole. That’s why the European Commission’s science service, the Joint Research Centre, set out to map the entire landscape, looking not only at European and national level but also digging into the way science influences policy within regions and even individual cities.

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How to Talk to Policymakers About Research

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How to Talk to Policymakers About Research

This article summarises common errors when talking to policymakers about research and looks at how to improve the relationship between researchers and policymakers.

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Support for Climate and Biodiversity Policies Differs Across Cultural Worldviews in Japan

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Support for Climate and Biodiversity Policies Differs Across Cultural Worldviews in Japan

Climate policy support varied more across cultural worldviews than biodiversity policy support, according to a survey in Japan.

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How To Be an Academic in the Twenty-First Century

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How To Be an Academic in the Twenty-First Century

Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties.

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Reproducibility

Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools

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Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools

How several free software tools have fundamentally upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire workflow more transparent and streamlined.

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Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science Collaborate on Annotation

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Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science Collaborate on Annotation

To enable peer feedback, collaboration and transparency in scientific research practices, Hypothesis and the Center for Open Science (COS) are announcing a new partnership to bring open annotation to Open Science Framework (OSF) Preprints and the 17 community preprint servers hosted on OSF.

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Climate Action from a Gender Perspective: A Systematic Review of the Impact of Climate Policies on Inequality

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Climate Action from a Gender Perspective: A Systematic Review of the Impact of Climate Policies on Inequality

This systematic review highlights the scarcity of research integrating a gender perspective into climate policy impact assessments and calls for more gender-sensitive analyses and the application of feminist theory to address this gap.
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AI Policy is Penalising the Students Most Trying to Comply

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AI Policy is Penalising the Students Most Trying to Comply

Jim Dickinson presents findings from new research on students' use of AI – and argues the sector is punishing precisely the disposition it should be cultivating.

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Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science

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Defining and identifying Sleeping Beauties in science

Scientific papers typically have a finite lifetime. Previous studies pointed out the existence of a few blatant exceptions: papers whose relevance has not been recognized for decades, but then suddenly become highly influential and cited. This study investigates how common Sleeping Beauties are in science.

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Science is Changing, Can I Change Too?

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Science is Changing, Can I Change Too?

Science is a big thing, but changing it relies on simple decisions made by individual researchers.

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Initiative for Open Citations

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Initiative for Open Citations

The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.

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Europe

Busting Text Data Mining Myths & Misunderstandings

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Busting Text Data Mining Myths & Misunderstandings

A broad TDM Exception is important for everyone (not just researchers), would boost Europe’s economy and doesn’t mean that publishers would lose money.

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New EU Project Will Strengthen Education and Resilience in Palestine and Ukraine

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New EU Project Will Strengthen Education and Resilience in Palestine and Ukraine

FORWARD will give students in Palestine and Ukraine tools to help their communities become more resilient in the face of war.
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What if universities had to agree to refund grants whenever there was a retraction?

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What if universities had to agree to refund grants whenever there was a retraction?

Leonid Schneider argues for a new way to ensure accountability for publicly funded research. It has become clear that scientific dishonesty is rarely sanctioned.

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Undergraduate Research Would Benefit From Better Comparative Data

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Undergraduate Research Would Benefit From Better Comparative Data

Opportunities for students abound, but researchers don’t know what works best

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PREreview: A Preprint Journal Club

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PREreview: A Preprint Journal Club

Encouraging researchers to post their outputs as preprints.

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2019 EUA Workshop on Research Assessment in the Transition to Open Science

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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.

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Germany Mulls Extra Research Funding for Committee-Burdened Women

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Germany Mulls Extra Research Funding for Committee-Burdened Women

Gender quotas have improved female representation on internal panels, but researchers have highlighted that the loss of research time slows career progression.

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CERN Physics Lab Suspends Ties with Russia

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CERN Physics Lab Suspends Ties with Russia

The particle physics lab CERN has become the latest organisation to suspend scientific links with Russia because of the Ukraine war.

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Has the European Commission Listened to Its Advisors on FP10?

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Has the European Commission Listened to Its Advisors on FP10?

Last week, the European Commission unveiled plans for the next €175 billion iteration of Horizon Europe, set to run from 2028 until 2034. Researchers' organisations across Europe are now combing the fine print to see whether it meets expectations. 
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How Google Science could transform academic publishing

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How Google Science could transform academic publishing

Google is allegedly working on a free, open access platform for the research, collaboration and publishing of peer-reviewed scientific journals. At least, that is apparently what one individual wants us to believe.

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Mystery as Controversial List of Predatory Publishers Disappears

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Mystery as Controversial List of Predatory Publishers Disappears

A popular blog that lists “potential, possible, or probable predatory” publishers and journals has disappeared, but it is not clear why.

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Let's Focus on the Research Process, Not the Outputs

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Let's Focus on the Research Process, Not the Outputs

Ensuring we focus our definition of success around valuable contributions - instead of around the final output - would recognise and reward good research and researchers.

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Nature Journals Announce First Open-Access Agreement

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Nature Journals Announce First Open-Access Agreement

The arrangement will allow some researchers in Germany to publish openly - but critics say it comes with a high price.

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How Scientists Can Safeguard Themselves Online

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How Scientists Can Safeguard Themselves Online

Scientists are always at risk of digital harassment by bad actors looking to undermine scientific credibility and progress, but there are protective steps they can take.
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