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Let's Be FAIR! ALLEA Presents Recommendations for Sustainable Data Sharing in the Humanities

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Let's Be FAIR! ALLEA Presents Recommendations for Sustainable Data Sharing in the Humanities

A new ALLEA report provides key recommendations to make digital data in the humanities. The document is designed as a practical guide to navigate the shift towards a sustainable data sharing culture.

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Open Access and Plan S: 5 Key Activities

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Open Access and Plan S: 5 Key Activities

In this short piece Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research at Wellcome and interim cOAlition S Coordinator provides an update on five key activities cOAlition S is currently supporting.

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What to Do when Your Grant is Rejected

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What to Do when Your Grant is Rejected

Failed funding applications are inevitable, but perseverance can pay dividends.

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'The Disruption is Enormous.' Coronavirus Epidemic Snarls Science Worldwide

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'The Disruption is Enormous.' Coronavirus Epidemic Snarls Science Worldwide

Experiments lost as labs remain closed; scientific meetings canceled or postponed.

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Reforming Research Assessment: A Tough Nut to Crack

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Reforming Research Assessment: A Tough Nut to Crack

Alison Mudditt looks at the recently released TOP Factor from the Center for Open Science, and the bigger picture of shifting the nature of research assessment.

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Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet

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Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet

People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.

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Scientists Call for Reform on Rankings and Indices of Science Journals

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Scientists Call for Reform on Rankings and Indices of Science Journals

Researchers are used to being evaluated based on indices like the impact factors of the scientific journals in which they publish papers and their number of citations. A team of 14 natural scientists from nine countries are now rebelling against this practice, arguing that obsessive use of indices is damaging the quality of science.

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'Eugenics is Possible' is Not the Same As 'eugenics is Good'

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'Eugenics is Possible' is Not the Same As 'eugenics is Good'

Rows over eugenics reveal how difficult it is to 'decouple' controversial concepts in our heads.

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Scientists Are Curious and Passionate and Ready to Argue

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Scientists Are Curious and Passionate and Ready to Argue

A robot career adviser's personality assessment, based on analysis of tweets.

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OPERAS Survey on SSH Scholarly Communication

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OPERAS Survey on SSH Scholarly Communication

OPERAS runs a survey to find out more about social sciences and humanities (SSH) scholarly communication.

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We're Reading the Coronavirus Numbers Wrong

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We're Reading the Coronavirus Numbers Wrong

Up-to-the-minute reports and statistics can unintentionally distort the facts.

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Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19

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Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19

Public health scientists who have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are deeply concerned about its impact on global health and wellbeing.

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Stop Making Graduate Students Pay Up Front for Conferences

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Stop Making Graduate Students Pay Up Front for Conferences

John Malloy shares his experiences of risking debt to travel - and discusses what to do about it.

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PLOS and the University of California Announce Open Access Publishing Agreement

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PLOS and the University of California Announce Open Access Publishing Agreement

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and the University of California (UC) announced a two-year agreement that will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish in the nonprofit open access publisher’s suite of journals.

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One Small Grain of Moon Dust, One Giant Leap for Lunar Studies

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One Small Grain of Moon Dust, One Giant Leap for Lunar Studies

Back in 1972, NASA sent their last team of astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo 17 mission. These astronauts brought some of the Moon back to Earth so scientists could continue to study lunar soil in their labs. Since we haven't returned to the Moon in almost 50 years, every lunar sample is precious. We need to make them count for researchers now and in the future. In a new study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, scientists found a new way to analyze the chemistry of the Moon's soil using a single grain of dust.

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No Raw Data, No Science: Another Possible Source of the Reproducibility Crisis

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No Raw Data, No Science: Another Possible Source of the Reproducibility Crisis

Inappropriate practices of science have been suggested as causes of irreproducibility. This editorial proposes that a lack of raw data or data fabrication is another possible cause of irreproducibility.

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Powerful Antibiotics Discovered Using AI

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Powerful Antibiotics Discovered Using AI

Machine learning spots molecules that work even against 'untreatable' strains of bacteria.

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Read-and-Publish Open Access Deals Are Heightening Global Inequalities in Access to Publication

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Read-and-Publish Open Access Deals Are Heightening Global Inequalities in Access to Publication

Opinion piece argues that Plan S deals have streamlined open access provision in the global North while exacerbating existing inequalities in scholarly publishing, by establishing and entrenching a two-tier system of scholarly publishing based on access to funds. 

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Why the Coronavirus Seems to Hit Men Harder Than Women

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Why the Coronavirus Seems to Hit Men Harder Than Women

Women mount stronger immune responses to infection, scientists say. And in China, men smoke in much greater numbers.

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Project to Explore Open Access Agreements Between Society Publishers and Library Consortia in Developing and Transition Economy Countries

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Project to Explore Open Access Agreements Between Society Publishers and Library Consortia in Developing and Transition Economy Countries

The new project will run during the first half of 2020. It is supported by Wellcome Trust, led by Information …

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Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines

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Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines

A study suggests that the productivity and impact of gender differences are explained by different publishing career lengths and dropout rates. This inequality in academic publishing has important consequences for institutions and policy makers.

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White House Formally Invites Public Comment on Open-access Policies

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White House Formally Invites Public Comment on Open-access Policies

Some publishers feared order making federally funded studies free

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JP Morgan Economists Warn Climate Crisis is Threat to Human Race

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JP Morgan Economists Warn Climate Crisis is Threat to Human Race

A leaked report for the world's major fossil fuel financier says Earth is on an unsustainable trajectory.

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Sharing Data Faster to Fight an Epidemic

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Sharing Data Faster to Fight an Epidemic

Scientists researching the new coronavirus are bypassing traditional medical journals to publish their findings more quickly online.

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How to Report on the COVID-19 Outbreak Responsibly

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How to Report on the COVID-19 Outbreak Responsibly

The virus doesn’t follow the news and doesn’t care about Twitter. This article proposes that reporting should distinguish between at least three levels of information reliability.

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Revealed: Quarter of All Tweets About Climate Crisis Produced by Bots

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Revealed: Quarter of All Tweets About Climate Crisis Produced by Bots

Draft of Brown study says findings suggest 'substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages'.

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Developing a Research Data Policy Framework for All Journals and Publishers

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Developing a Research Data Policy Framework for All Journals and Publishers

This article proposes measures and policies which can be adopted by journals and publishers to promote good practices in data sharing.

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"TOP Factor" Rates Journals on Transparency, Openness

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"TOP Factor" Rates Journals on Transparency, Openness

A new tool, created by the advocacy organization Center for Open Science, seeks to change editorial practices. Journals are scored based on ten different criteria, including availability of data and policies on preregistration.

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Jess Wade's One-Woman Mission to Diversify Wikipedia's Science Stories

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Jess Wade's One-Woman Mission to Diversify Wikipedia's Science Stories

Our largest encyclopedia overwhelmingly recognises the achievements of white men. For physicist Jess Wade, fighting this bias has been an uphill battle to ensure that the scientific contributions made by women and other under-represented communities aren’t lost to posterity.

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Obituary: Katherine Johnson

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Obituary: Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson, a NASA trailblazer, dies at 101.

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