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Releasing a New CORE Discovery Browser Extension

Releasing a New CORE Discovery Browser Extension

CORE Discovery helps users find freely accessible copies of research papers that might be behind a paywall on the publisher's website. It is backed by our huge dataset of millions of full text open…

Europe's New Space Budget to Enable CO2 Mapping

Europe's New Space Budget to Enable CO2 Mapping

Europe will press ahead with a network of satellites to track carbon dioxide emissions across the globe. The enhanced capability is expected to be a potent tool in helping all nations - not just European ones - better understand their carbon footprint.

I'm Striking Because Insecure Academic Contracts Are Ruining My Mental Health

I'm Striking Because Insecure Academic Contracts Are Ruining My Mental Health

A recent University and College Union (UCU) survey reported that 70% of the 49,000 researchers in higher education in the UK are currently employed on fixed-term contracts, as are 37,000 teaching staff (the majority of whom are paid hourly). The authors argues that the yearly search for new work is harming their health and is forcing them to put their life on hold.

Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter

Data Repository Selection: Criteria That Matter

This blog post is a joint announcement of an initiative by several publishers in collaboration with Fairsharing and DataCite to help authors select appropriate data repositories.

Last-minute Change Sees 'research' Reinstated in Job Title of R&D Commissioner

Last-minute Change Sees 'research' Reinstated in Job Title of R&D Commissioner

The incoming president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has given into demands that the word 'research' should feature in the research commissioner's job title, making the change at the last possible minute, just before the European Parliament confirmed the new team of commissioners in Strasbourg on Wednesday.

China's Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm

China's Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region's system of mass surveillance.

In Unpublished Paper, Former White House Climate Adviser Calls Methane 'irrelevant' to Climate

In Unpublished Paper, Former White House Climate Adviser Calls Methane 'irrelevant' to Climate

Research in the US aims to support rollback of methane rules.

Marc Schiltz Re-elected President of Science Europe

Marc Schiltz Re-elected President of Science Europe

Marc Schiltz, Secretary General and Executive Head of the FNR, has been re-elected President of Science Europe, an association of major European research funding and research performing organisations.

Mining and Analysing Invoice Data from Elsevier Relative to Hybrid Open Access

Mining and Analysing Invoice Data from Elsevier Relative to Hybrid Open Access

Publishers rarely make publication fee spending for hybrid journals transparent. Elsevier is a remarkable exception, as the publisher provides open and machine-readable data relative to its central invoicing with funding bodies and fee waivers at the article level.

Open Knowledge Maps - A Visual Interface to the World's Scientific Knowledge

Open Knowledge Maps - A Visual Interface to the World's Scientific Knowledge

A visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike.

Monitoring Agreements with Open Access Elements: Why Article-Level Metadata Are Important

Monitoring Agreements with Open Access Elements: Why Article-Level Metadata Are Important

With more agreements including some form of Open Access, consortia and academic institutions need to monitor the number of Open Access publications, the costs and the value of these agreements.

Addendum to the COAlition S Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S

Addendum to the COAlition S Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S

cOAlition S endorse a number of strategies to encourage subscription publishers to transition to Open Access.

Is the Scientific Community Ready for Open Access Publishing?

Is the Scientific Community Ready for Open Access Publishing?

An overview of some of the background, considerations, and discussions on some of the topics surrounding publishing open access.

Towards a Community-endorsed Data Stewardship Profession

Towards a Community-endorsed Data Stewardship Profession

Data stewardship encompasses all of the various tasks and responsibilities that relate to research data management throughout the entire research lifecycle. It has been discussed at the 14th RDA Plenary in Helsinki by research, industry and policy experts.

Endorse Preprints with Plaudit

Endorse Preprints with Plaudit

We just integrated Plaudit across OSF preprint servers, now allowing researchers to openly endorse papers they find valuable.

Plan S and the History Journal Landscape

Plan S and the History Journal Landscape

This report from the Royal Historical Society (RHS) assesses the extent of History journals’ engagement with, and preparedness for, implementation of Plan S-aligned open access (OA) mandates.

Carnegie Mellon Publishing Agreement Marks Open Access Milestone

Carnegie Mellon Publishing Agreement Marks Open Access Milestone

Carnegie Mellon University, a longtime proponent of open-access research, is championing an international movement to revolutionize academic publishing.

On the Great Secret-Keepers of History

On the Great Secret-Keepers of History

Archivists are the great secret-keepers of history, caught in a negotiation between the past and future. Restrictions and withholding policies serve as their bargaining chip.

How Grad Schools Became the Hidden Culprit Behind America's Student-debt Crisis

How Grad Schools Became the Hidden Culprit Behind America's Student-debt Crisis

Over half of the massive US student-loan debt comes from graduate schools, and it's a sign master's degrees aren't the path to wealth they used to be.

Reproductions of Public Domain Works Should Remain in the Public Domain - Creative Commons

Reproductions of Public Domain Works Should Remain in the Public Domain - Creative Commons

If the work is in the public domain, no copyright licenses should be applied and in the case of CC licenses which are designed to only operate where copyright exists, the application of a CC license is ineffective.

Americans Maintain High Levels of Trust in Science

Americans Maintain High Levels of Trust in Science

A new report analyzing decades of public opinion surveys reveals that the public's trust in scientists has remained stable and high over decades.

Highly Cited Researchers in Web of Science

Highly Cited Researchers in Web of Science

Recognizing the world's most influential researchers  of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.