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Quotas to Promote Gender Equality in Research
Gender equality is a prime concern of the Swiss National Science Foundation. To offer additional visibilty to women in academia, it is introducing gender quotas in its evaluation bodies with immediate effect.
New Bot Flags Scientific Studies That Cite Retracted Papers
Most researchers don't intend to cite retracted papers, but it can have serious consequences for science.
Open Science Podcasts: 7 +3 Tips for Your Ears
Podcasts were among the media winners of last year. Scientific podcasts in particular enjoyed great popularity. In fact, there are also some that deal specifically with Open Science. This article has 7 + 3 tips.
How Is Science Clicked on Twitter? Click Metrics for Bitly Short Links to Scientific Publications
How Is Science Clicked on Twitter? Click Metrics for Bitly Short Links to Scientific Publications
Study analyses the click metrics of over 1.1 million links referring to Web of Science publications.
Don't Believe the Hype: Repositories Are Critical for Ensuring Equity, Inclusion and Sustainability in the Transition to Open Access
Don't Believe the Hype: Repositories Are Critical for Ensuring Equity, Inclusion and Sustainability in the Transition to Open Access
The rhetoric of some scholarly publishers lately has shown a troublesome trend with respect to Open Access repositories (often referred to as Green OA).
Science Barometer 2020: Starting Points for Open Science?
What image does the public in Germany have of science and research? The Science Barometer is dedicated to answering this question. We have taken a look at the results of the most recent survey from an Open Science perspective.
January SciComm Challenge - Let's Talk About Creativity in Science!
What better way to start 2021 than with a new science communication challenge! This month's challenge should help get your creative juices flowing… writing (or visualizing!) a time when creativity, imagination or subconscious thought was important to your scientific or artistic work!
Portugal's National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology Joins COAlition S
Portugal's National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology Joins COAlition S
cOAlition S is pleased to announce that the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (FCT) is the latest national funding agency for science, research, and technology to join the coalition and demonstrate its commitment to the realisation of full and immediate Open Access. Portugal's forward-thinking approach on Open Access is widely acknowledged across Europe […]
Enabling the Future of Academic Research with the Twitter API
Today, we're excited to launch the Academic Research product track on the new Twitter API.
The Role of Science in the News (and Elsewhere)
Did COVID change the way the public, and the scientists, interpret and discuss scientific results? Statisticians think it looks like the same old problems prevail, only inflated.
Journal Checker Tool: Plan S Compliance Validator
JCT enables researchers to check whether they can comply with their funders Plan S aligned OA policy based on the journal, the funder and the institution affiliated with the research to be published.
SSH Open Marketplace: Beta Release
The SSH Open Marketplace is discovery portal designed to offer social sciences and humanities researchers the tools, software, datasets, training materials, and workflows they need to manage their data.
New Public Data File: 120+ Million Metadata Records
2020 wasn't all bad. In April of last year, we released our first public data file. Though Crossref metadata is always openly available--and our board recently cemented this by voting to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)--we've decided to release an updated file.
Academia in Motion: a Different Form of Recognition and Reward
Academia in Motion: a Different Form of Recognition and Reward
A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria would improve the systems of recognition and rewards in academia.
Open Science in the Horizon Europe Funding Programme: What to Expect?
Open Science in the Horizon Europe Funding Programme: What to Expect?
In this forward-looking spirit, sharing information about the coming EU funding framework seems to be an appropriate topic for the last DARIAH Open post in 2020. As such, this entry is having a look at how Open Science is taking shape in the nascent Horizon Europe funding programme for 2021-2027, what to expect and what are the major changes compared to the previous funding programme, Horizon 2020.