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Opendata.ch/2018 ist die führende Konferenz der Schweiz rund um das Thema offene Daten. Jährlich prägen wir die nationale Open-Data-Diskussion, mit VertreterInnen aus Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik, Journalismus, IT und weiteren Interessengebieten.
A group of open science advocates have launched the first preprint aimed exclusively at African scientists. The free, online outlet is one of a growing number for academics on the continent to share their work.
eLife is conducting a trial in which authors will decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review.
There appears to be no realistic path forward that achieves Europe's 2020 open access targets without resulting in substantial revenue reductions for existing publishers. Will Europe miss its OA target? Or will publishers miss their revenue targets?
Candidates to the psychology department at LMU Munich are asked to describe in what way they already pursued and plan to pursue various Open Science goals.
A different take on advice frequently given to PhD students.
Trump puts tariffs on Chinese technology and China retaliates with taxes on US chemicals.
Current policies and programs have failed overwhelmingly to address and prevent the problem, said a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
Daniel Sarewitz on the impossibility - and the necessity - of distinguishing science from nonscience.
Yet another comprehensive list of open science resources.
A fundraising pitch involves vastly different style and substance than a scientific talk. Entrepreneurial scientists and engineers need to understand and manage the differences.
Reward the creation of analyses for policymakers that are inclusive, rigorous, transparent and accessible.
Why was the agreement with Elsevier not renewed?
Blockchain technology challenges the traditional Scientific Research and Publishing Process.
A massive project to supercharge the world’s largest particle collider launched in the hope that the beefed-up machine will reveal fresh insights into the nature of the universe.
A regular pastime can ease mental stress, improve work–life balance and help scientists to reach innovative solutions in their work.
A cartoon showing how the feisty orange-black butterfly uses a toolbox of biological tricks to find its way down to Mexico for winter and flap north again in spring.
As someone with a deep appreciation of education and expertise, it’s troubling to know that college is just one more locus of skulduggery, veiled and overt.
Many of history's greatest scientists were also refugees. These are their stories.
Letters about women include more doubt-raising phrases than those about men, and that even one such phrase can make a difference in a job search.
Reaching higher uptake and acceptance of open science practice at the University of Göttingen.
A list with some open tools and resources, which hopefully, someone will find useful.
"Their profit margins are bigger than oil and gas. Most people don’t know this,” explains Alyssa Arbuckle, Associate Director of a digital humanities lab at the University of Victoria.
Teach anyone how to create reproducible reports, with reusable environments, using technologies like Nix, LaTeX, and KnitR for languages like R, Python and JavaScript.
Retraction Watch retraction database, being built with the support of the MacArthur and Arnold Foundations.
Kai-Fu Lee - a former Apple, Microsoft and Google executive turned investor - is placing big bets on machine learning. And China is leading the way.
An open source dashboard presenting the uptake of hybrid open access for 3,347 different journals from 42 publishers between 2013 and 2018.
Feedback on Rules of Participation from all the relevant stakeholders is essential for the European Open Science Cloud.
Google's journal about artificial intelligence (AI) coming from editors and authors associated with Google and Google Brain raises questions about conflicts, vanity publishing, and Google as a media company.
A new database of female historians joins a growing group of lists that aim to promote a more diverse group of experts. Such databases have previously been more common in the hard sciences.
