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Feedback on the Implementation Guidance of Plan S Generates Large Public Response

Feedback on the Implementation Guidance of Plan S Generates Large Public Response

Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-time Science After First Child

Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-time Science After First Child

Research puts a number on the proportion of people leaving full-time careers in science after the birth of their first child.

Boon, Bias or Bane? The Potential Influence of Reviewer Recommendations on Editorial Decision-making : Journal: European Science Editing

Boon, Bias or Bane? The Potential Influence of Reviewer Recommendations on Editorial Decision-making : Journal: European Science Editing

No formal investigations have been conducted into the efficacy or potential influence of reviewer recommendations on editorial decisions, and the impact of this on the expectations and behaviour of authors, reviewers and journal editors. This article addresses key questions about this critical aspect of the peer review submission process.

University Report Makes Recommendations to Address Gender, Race Disparities Among Faculty

University Report Makes Recommendations to Address Gender, Race Disparities Among Faculty

A two-year study by the University on the status of women and underrepresented minority faculty at Columbia has resulted in a set of proposals on ways to close salary gaps, spur academic advancement and improve the overall work environment.

COAlition S Welcomes Its First African Member and Receives Strong Support from the African Academy of Sciences

COAlition S Welcomes Its First African Member and Receives Strong Support from the African Academy of Sciences

With the membership of NSTC, the main public research funding body in the Republic of Zambia, cOAlition S now has members in Europe, North America, and Africa, and has received further support in the Middle East and Asia, with particular support by China.

Women Are Winning More Scientific Prizes, But Men Still Win the Most Prestigious Ones

Women Are Winning More Scientific Prizes, But Men Still Win the Most Prestigious Ones

According to a study of 628 awards given over five decades, men still win the most prestigious scientific prizes.

Open Science Isn't Always Open to All Scientists

Open Science Isn't Always Open to All Scientists

Current efforts to make research more accessible and transparent can reinforce inequality within STEM professions.

Gender and Precarious Research Careers. A Comparative Analysis.

Gender and Precarious Research Careers. A Comparative Analysis.

Gender and Precarious Research Careers aims to advance the debate on the process of precarisation in higher education and its gendered effects, and springs from a three-year research project across institutions in seven European countries. Examining gender asymmetries in academic and research organisations, this insightful volume focuses particularly on early careers. It centres both on STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and SSH (Social Science and Humanities) fields.

Celebrating Women and Girls in Science

Celebrating Women and Girls in Science

February 11 was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This year, it was marked by a joint statement celebrating women’s achievements in science from Europe’s eight EIROforum laboratories.

PLOS Provides Feedback on the Implementation of Plan S | The Official PLOS Blog

PLOS Provides Feedback on the Implementation of Plan S | The Official PLOS Blog

PLOS welcomes Plan S as a 'decisive step towards the realisation of full open access'1, in particular the push it provides towards realization of a research process based on the principles of open science.

OPERAS Declaration on the Plan S Implementation Guidance

OPERAS Declaration on the Plan S Implementation Guidance

OPERAS, the European research infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in the Social Sciences and Humanities, provides its recommendations to the guidance document on the implementation of Plan S.

FOSTER/OpenAIRE Moderated Course on Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020

FOSTER/OpenAIRE Moderated Course on Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020

Are you participating in a H2020 funded project? Would you like to know more on how to comply with the H2020 Open Access mandate? Join in this moderated FOSTER/OpenAIRE Course on Open Access to Publications in Horizon 2020.

AHA Expresses Concerns About Potential Impact of Plan S on the Humanities

AHA Expresses Concerns About Potential Impact of Plan S on the Humanities

The AHA fully supports broad access to the resources required to create new knowledge and share it as widely as possible. However, concerns about the principles set out in Plan S have led the AHA to write a letter to Coalition S members regarding the potential for harm to humanities scholarship.

Academy-owned? Academic-led? Community-led? What's at Stake in the Words We Use to Describe New Publishing Paradigms

Academy-owned? Academic-led? Community-led? What's at Stake in the Words We Use to Describe New Publishing Paradigms

There is no question that we are facing significant challenges and opportunities as the traditional publishing model begins to falter. How the academy positions itself at this moment will have consequences for years to come.

OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance

OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance

As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the of the OA journal output in the DOAJ*, OASPA is of course very supportive of the intentions of Plan S, as we commented previously at the beginning of October.

Scientists Don't Stay for Long in Their Jobs Anymore: Study

Scientists Don't Stay for Long in Their Jobs Anymore: Study

Plus, more scientists nowadays spend their entire careers in supporting roles, rather than leading their own research programs.

2019 EUA Workshop on Research Assessment in the Transition to Open Science

2019 EUA Workshop on Research Assessment in the Transition to Open Science

EUA is organising a series of workshops raising awareness and fostering discussion on research assessment reform. The 2019 edition will focus on research evaluation for the purpose of recruitment and career progression of researchers.

Europe PMC's Response to the Implementation Guidance of Plan S

Europe PMC's Response to the Implementation Guidance of Plan S

Europe PMC’s mission to support innovation based on open access content is well aligned with the fundamental principles of Plan S.

Plan S and Open Access in Latin America

Plan S and Open Access in Latin America

Open Access publishing is more widespread in Latin America than in any other region of the world, and continues to grow. We sat down with CLACSO's Open Access Advisor Dominique Babini to find out why.

Can Machines Determine the Credibility of Research Claims?

Can Machines Determine the Credibility of Research Claims?

The Center for Open Science (COS) has been selected to participate in DARPA’s new program Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE).

The Game is Changing: How Two Years of Trump Has Energized the Science Community

The Game is Changing: How Two Years of Trump Has Energized the Science Community

Two years into the Trump administration the damage done to science is significant but it would have been far worse without thousands of scientists and their allies calling out attacks on science and detailing the consequences of these attacks for public health and safety.

Research Funding Programmes Aiming for Societal Transformations: Ten Key Stages

Research Funding Programmes Aiming for Societal Transformations: Ten Key Stages

Societal issues such as poverty, water scarcity, and food insecurity make it more important than ever for science to produce knowledge that is relevant to address serious challenges on the ground.