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Research Data
Universities
UK

Establishing, Developing, and Sustaining a Community of Data Champions

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Research Data
Universities
UK

Establishing, Developing, and Sustaining a Community of Data Champions

While research data support units now exist in many universities, these are typically not able to provide discipline-specific expertise or resources. This article focuses on the Data Champion Programme at the University of Cambridge, which empowers discipline-specific expertise already embedded within each unit to advocate for good RDM and to deliver support locally.

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Reproducibility

The Definition of Reuse

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Reproducibility

The Definition of Reuse

Article postulates that a clear definition of use and reuse is needed to establish better metrics for a comprehensive scholarly record of individuals, institutions, organizations, etc. Hence, this article presents a first definition of reuse of research data.

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Statistics
Education

Textbook Analysis Uncovers Erroneous Explanations of Statistical Significance

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Statistics
Education

Textbook Analysis Uncovers Erroneous Explanations of Statistical Significance

An examination of introductory psychology textbooks suggests that prospective psychological researchers may learn to interpret statistical significance incorrectly in their undergraduate classes.

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Specialization

Generalise, Don't Specialise: Why Focusing Too Narrowly is Bad for Us

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Specialization

Generalise, Don't Specialise: Why Focusing Too Narrowly is Bad for Us

The 10,000-hour rule says intense, dedicated practice makes perfect - at that one thing. But what if breadth actually serves us better than depth?

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Misconduct

Scandal-weary Swedish Government Takes over Research-fraud Investigations

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Misconduct

Scandal-weary Swedish Government Takes over Research-fraud Investigations

The Research Misconduct Board is one of the first national agencies tasked with investigating serious research misconduct.

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Gender
Equality

Who Gets Grant Money? The (gendered) Words Decide.

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Gender
Equality

Who Gets Grant Money? The (gendered) Words Decide.

New research finds that even under blind review, women score lower than men when applying for grants. The reason? The words they use.

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LGBTI
STEM

How to Fight STEM's Unconscious Bias Against LGBTQ People

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LGBTI
STEM

How to Fight STEM's Unconscious Bias Against LGBTQ People

To boost inclusivity, we need to do better at tracking data and holding institutions accountable.

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Plan S

Plan S: LIBER Calls on Libraries to Share Successes & Challenges On the Road to Compliance - LIBER

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Plan S

Plan S: LIBER Calls on Libraries to Share Successes & Challenges On the Road to Compliance - LIBER

LIBER appreciates the latest guidance, which matches its strategic goal of making Open Access the main form of scholarly communication by 2020. At the same time, it recognises the complexities and challenges faced by research libraries to implement publishing or update services to follow Plan S.

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Plan S

How to Start Preparing Your Journals for Plan S: A Guide for Publishers Using Scholastica

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Plan S

How to Start Preparing Your Journals for Plan S: A Guide for Publishers Using Scholastica

In the coming months, Scholastica will be introducing product improvements to help journals comply with the Plan S guidelines. In this post, we overview steps journals using Scholastica's open access publishing platform can take to start preparing for Plan S.

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Open Access

Publisher Elsevier Halts UC's Access to New Articles

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Open Access

Publisher Elsevier Halts UC's Access to New Articles

Publisher Elsevier halts UC's access to new articles but UC Berkeley Library can connect readers with what they need. 

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Open Access

Governing the Scholarly Commons: the Radical Open Access Collective - Samuel Moore

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Open Access

Governing the Scholarly Commons: the Radical Open Access Collective - Samuel Moore

The Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC) is a community of 60+ not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. One of the aims of the collective is to legitimise scholar-led publishing as an important alternative model for open access.

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Climate

What Happens when You Can See Disaster Unfolding, and Nobody Listens?

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Climate

What Happens when You Can See Disaster Unfolding, and Nobody Listens?

The distinct burden of being a climate scientist.

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Awards
Women in Science

Daphne Bavelier Receives 2019 Research Prize - Jacobs Foundation

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Awards
Women in Science

Daphne Bavelier Receives 2019 Research Prize - Jacobs Foundation

University of Geneva Professor Daphne Bavelier explores how individuals learn and adapt to changes in experience, whether induced by nature or by training.

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Hungary
Policy

Hungary Parliament Puts Scientific Research Under Government's Watch

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Hungary
Policy

Hungary Parliament Puts Scientific Research Under Government's Watch

Hungary's parliament passed a law on Tuesday that will significantly increase state control over the research, funds, and membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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Opinion
Diversity

Taking Pride in Our Researchers

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Diversity

Taking Pride in Our Researchers

To celebrate LGBTSTEM Day, our researchers talk about being #LGBT in science and engineering and why celebrating diversity is so important.

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Early Career Researchers

How a Long-distance Job Move Can Leave Early-career Researchers Short of Cash

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Early Career Researchers

How a Long-distance Job Move Can Leave Early-career Researchers Short of Cash

Without reimbursement for relocation costs, PhD students and postdocs are often forced to empty savings accounts, seek financial help or even rack up debt.

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Climate

Tree Planting 'has Mind-blowing Potential' to Tackle Climate Crisis

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Climate

Tree Planting 'has Mind-blowing Potential' to Tackle Climate Crisis

Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide.

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Open Access

The Status Quo Bias and the Uptake of Open Access

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Open Access

The Status Quo Bias and the Uptake of Open Access

In this paper the authors argue that the linguistic framing of open access by a variety of stakeholders may inhibit the uptake of open access publishing.

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Publications
Publishing
Collaboration

Ten Simple Rules for Researchers Collaborating on Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs)

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Publishing
Collaboration

Ten Simple Rules for Researchers Collaborating on Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs)

The authors provide recommendations for a highly open and participatory interactive process of collaboration using digital tools and environments, discuss potential issues that come with working with large and diverse authoring communities, and provide possible solutions should these arise.

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Eurodoc for Open Science

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Eurodoc for Open Science

The collection of content related to the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers' (Eurodoc) commitment to Open Science.

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Open Science

Universities and Knowledge Sharing

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Open Science

Universities and Knowledge Sharing

The authors explore the extent to which universities are functioning as effective open knowledge institutions; as well as the types of information that universities, funders, and communities might need to understand an institution's open knowledge performance and how it might be improved. The challenges of data collection on open knowledge practices at scale, and across national, cultural and linguistic boundaries are also discussed.

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Digitalization

Moving Mountains in the Knowledge Sphere: Is There a Way?

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Digitalization

Moving Mountains in the Knowledge Sphere: Is There a Way?

Especially in education and research, electronic resources, digital tools and novel technologies have profoundly altered the way and the speed at which we acquire and share our knowledge. However, this infrastructure goes vastly unnoticed by most of us.

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Publishing

Ten Hot Topics Around Scholarly Publishing

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Publishing

Ten Hot Topics Around Scholarly Publishing

The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open Research’ has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated topics.

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Data Visualisation

Tracking the Growth of the PID Graph

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Data Visualisation

Tracking the Growth of the PID Graph

The connections between scholarly resources generated by persistent identifiers (PIDs) and associated metadata form a graph: the PID Graph. Today we are announcing another important milestone: we added the required functionality to the DataCite GraphQL API that allows us to keep track of the growth of the PID Graph in terms of nodes (resources) and edges (connections).

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