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Heather Paxson on a New Model for Open-access Publishing in Anthropology
Interim head of MIT Anthropology explains the plan's vision and challenges, plus progress made at an historic MIT workshop.
WHO and TDR Join COAlition S to Support Free and Immediate Access to Health Research
WHO and TDR Join COAlition S to Support Free and Immediate Access to Health Research
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) announce they are the first of the United Nations agencies to join COAlition S. This commitment will ensure that all WHO and TDS supported health research will be free to read online on the day it is published.
7 Easy Steps to Open Science
This paper provides an introduction to open science and related reforms in the form of an annotated reading list of seven peer-reviewed articles.
Mixed Reception for German Open Access Deal with Springer Nature
Springer Nature has reached an open access publishing deal with 700 German research universities, but it faces some pushback.
COAlition S Appoints Johan Rooryck As Open Access Champion
cOAlition S announces that Johan Rooryck, Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University, has been appointed as its Open Access Champion.
Knowledge in the dark: scientific challenges and ways forward
A key dimension of our current era is Big Data, the rapid rise in produced data and information; a key frustration is that we are nonetheless living in an age of ignorance, as the real knowledge and understanding of people does not seem to be substantially increasing. This development has critical consequences.
Open and Replicable Science Cannot Save Us from Academia
Researchers have tried for at least 200 years to change academia and they have all failed, claims opinion piece.
Collaboration Without Elsevier is the Key to Open Access and Open Science
Comment on a Times Higher Education on a strange and awkward piece from a representative of Elsevier.
Systematic Literature Review of "Teaching Open Science"
A call for people who would like to join a collaborative process to further explore and write the systematic literature review on “Teaching Open Science“.
Reproducible Research and GIScience: an Evaluation Using AGILE Conference Papers
Reproducible Research and GIScience: an Evaluation Using AGILE Conference Papers
We reviewed current recommendations for reproducible research and translated them into criteria for assessing the reproducibility of articles in the field of geographic information science (GIScience). Results from the author feedback indicate that although authors support the concept of performing reproducible research, the incentives for doing this in practice are too small. Therefore, we propose concrete actions for individual researchers and the GIScience conference series to improve transparency and reproducibility.
Digitisation of Higher Education: Systemic Framework Conditions and Influencing Political Factors
Digitisation of Higher Education: Systemic Framework Conditions and Influencing Political Factors
Which factors have a strong systemic influence on the digitisation of higher education? Which can be influenced politically? The authors look at areas of action related to open science and discuss the extent to which future scenarios such as “disruption" can endanger university locations.
Scientists Join the Global Climate Strike - March For Science
Over the last year, millions of school climate strikers have been leaving their classrooms every Friday. Young people have woken up much of the world, and now they are asking for everyone else to join them in action.
The Dubious Practice of University Rankings
Ellen Hazelkorn takes a look at the accuracy of university rankings from an international perspective.
Can We Transform Scholarly Communication with Open Source and Community‐Owned Infrastructure?
Can We Transform Scholarly Communication with Open Source and Community‐Owned Infrastructure?
The Science of Gun Violence
A growing chorus of researchers wants to study gun violence in the U.S. as a public health issue, similar to the way they have tracked automobile or workplace safety for decades.
Mind the Gap
A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms catalogs and analyzes all available open-source software for publishing and warns that open publishing must grapple with the dual challenges of siloed development and organization of the community-owned ecosystem
Preregistration Is Hard - And Worthwhile
Making decisions before conducting analyses requires practice. Respecting both what was planned and what actually happened requires good judgment and humility in making claims. With the accelerating adoption of preregistration, we now face the challenge of figuring out how to use this methodology to its fullest potential.
Desperately Seeking Scientists
When so many email addresses on journal articles don't work, we have a problem.
Medicine Ignored Women's Health for Years - That's Finally Changing
For decades, the medical field has dismissed female health concerns. Women have been told that they’re imagining signs of heart attacks and other life-threatening ailments and had few resources devoted to researching their medical problems, but, at last, that seems to be changing.
SpringerOpen Pricing Trends 2018 - 2019
Of the 215 active journals published by SpringerOpen, 54% charge APCs. The average APC was 1,212 EUR, an increase of 8% over the 2018 average, 6 times the EU inflation rate for June 2019 of 1.3%.
Research Outputs Find a Home at IndiaRxiv
Open Access India partners with the Center for Open Science to launch IndiaRxiv on the eve of India’s 73rd Independence Day as the country joins the global march for open science.
Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines
Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines
A comprehensive analysis of longitudinal gender discrepancies in performance through a bibliometric analysis of academic careers.
Criteria for Assessing Grant Applications: A Systematic Review
Identification and synthetisation of studies that examine grant peer review criteria in an empirical and inductive manner.
The Odds Are Stacked Against Black, Latino Students Going to Grad School. Here Are Some Solutions
The Odds Are Stacked Against Black, Latino Students Going to Grad School. Here Are Some Solutions
A handful of universities are trying to help more black and Hispanic students get into and through graduate school, where they enroll in disproportionately low numbers. This is a problem not only for the students, but for the schools themselves and for employers who need workers with graduate educations.
UC Faculty to Elsevier: Restart Negotiations, or else
Prominent UC faculty suspend service on editorial boards of Cell Press journals to bring publisher Elsevier back to the bargaining table.
What's Next for OpenCon: Putting Equity at the Core
OpenCon works to make research & education more open and equitable.
China: New Regulations for Human Gene Research
Jaqueline Zhao and Tim Jackson discuss the new regulations for China in 2019, after the gene-editing scandal which created international headlines.
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