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Exploring Collaborative Non-commercial Publishing Models for Open Access: Tender Results
Exploring Collaborative Non-commercial Publishing Models for Open Access: Tender Results
cOAlition S announces that the tender was awarded to a consortium coordinated by OPERAS.
How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture
The research world has moved faster than many would have suspected possible in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In five months, a volume of work has been generated that even the most intensive of emergent fields have taken years to create.In our new report, How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture, we investigate the research landscape trends and cultural changes in response to COVID-19. The report includes analysis of publication trends, geographic focal points of research, and collaboration patterns.
IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
IBM is also advocating for police reform.
A Global Immunological Observatory to Meet a Time of Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2 presents an unprecedented international challenge, but it will not be the last such threat. In this article, the authors argue that the world needs to be much better prepared to rapidly detect, define and defeat future pandemics.
Take Action - #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM
Wednesday June 10 has been designated a day of action in STEM and in academia in support of Black lives. Non-Black, non-Indigenous people in STEM and academia are invited to dedicate their working hours to formulating a plan of ACTION for how to join the struggle to ensure that Black lives matter.
Black Women Create #BlackInTheIvory and #PublishingPaidMe to Reveal Inequity in Academia and Publishing
Black Women Create #BlackInTheIvory and #PublishingPaidMe to Reveal Inequity in Academia and Publishing
Both hashtags trended on social media over the weekend and speak to pervasive racial inequity.
10 Things That the Scholarly Community Can Do to Stand in Solidarity
10 Things That the Scholarly Community Can Do to Stand in Solidarity
Acknowledge the history. Revise your work. Refuse to be complicit.
Webinar: Scholarly Communication & COVID-19: Closing the Loop for Effective Peer Review
Webinar: Scholarly Communication & COVID-19: Closing the Loop for Effective Peer Review
We are pleased to announce the next OASPA webinar which will explore recent steps to increase efficiency and speed in the publication of COVID-19 research (Wednesday 24th June 2020, 4.00 pm Central European Time).
Scientists Rush to Defend Venezuelan Colleagues Threatened over Coronavirus Study
Scientists Rush to Defend Venezuelan Colleagues Threatened over Coronavirus Study
High-level politician suggests academy deserves retribution for publishing unwelcome COVID-19 estimates.
A Guide to Making Sense of Coronavirus Studies
News coverage of scientific studies can be misleading. Here's how to tell the good from the bad.
The Case for Open Access
Providing open access to digitised collections has spurred creativity and research worldwide - so why are the UK's flagship museums so slow on the uptake?
Take Action - 500 Women Scientists
Communicate your support for #BlackLivesMatter: Dos, don'ts, and resources.
A Comic to Explain Academic Publishing
Easy-to-understand comic explains how rigorous science is peer-reviewed and published. Hint: it's not via YouTube.
COVID19 Infodemics Observatory
A platform to analyze the relationship between the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemic and the information dynamics on social media.
Protected by Decades-Old Power Structures, Three Renowned Harvard Anthropologists Face Allegations of Sexual Harassment
Protected by Decades-Old Power Structures, Three Renowned Harvard Anthropologists Face Allegations of Sexual Harassment
Senior Anthropology professors Theodore C. Bestor, Gary Urton, and John L. Comaroff have weathered allegations of sexual harassment, including some leveled by students. But affiliates said gender issues in the department stretch beyond them.
Virtual OR2020 Meetings - Open Repositories 2021
How can repositories contribute to their FAIR share? A Virtual workshop on June 1st about Equity and democratization of knowledge.
San Francisco Testing Blitz Shows Covid-19 Hit Mostly Low-wage Workers
The testing project is proving to be a national model, because of the challenges the organizers overcame and what it showed about the spread of Covid-19.
An Incomplete List of COVID-19 Quackery
Possibly the only thing spreading faster than COVID-19 is the pseudoscience about COVID-19.
Opendata.ch - 2020 Forum
The Opendata.ch 2020 Forum will explore New Data Narratives, diving in deep collaborative work, and aiming high!
Publishers Invest in Preprints
Major scholarly publishers have invested substantially in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.
#ECRWednesday Webinar: Reforming Academic Conferences
Join this month's webinar to hear what could be done to reform the conference experience for both organisers and participants.
Swissuniversities and Elsevier Adopt a Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing
Swissuniversities and Elsevier Adopt a Pilot Agreement Combining Reading and Publishing
Swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and Open Access publishing in Switzerland.
Reasons to Worry Less About the Explosion of Preprints - Absolutely Maybe
Data Sharing in the Current Crisis
Data sharing and COVID-19- the pandemic is changing the way scientists work and talk to each other. The Early Career Researchers advisory board at Wellcome Open Research discuss how COVID-19 is changing science.
The Rogue Experimenters
Community labs want to make everything from insulin to prostheses. Will traditional scientists accept their efforts?