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Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation
Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation
Quantitative performance ratings are ubiquitous in modern organizations — from businesses to universities — yet there is substantialevidence of bias against women in suchratings. This study examines how gender inequalities in evaluations dependon the design of the tools used to judge merit.
FinELib's Negotiations with Taylor & Francis Hit a Wall - FinELib
Negotiations between the FinELib consortium and Taylor & Francis ended with no positive results. The end of the negotiations means that access to Taylor & Francis journals will end on 1 February 2019.
PRESS RELEASE: Researchers Respond to Implementation of Plan S | Eurodoc
Read the joint response to the implementation guidance forPlan S as issued by three organisations representing early-career and senior researchers in Europe.
AmeliCA Vs Plan S: Same Target, Two Different Strategies to Achieve Open Access
AmeliCA is a multi-institutional community-driven initiative supported by UNESCO that arises in response to the international, regional, national and institutional contexts of Open Access, which seeks a collaborative, sustainable, protected and non-commercial solution for Open Knowledge in Latin America and the Global South.
Meet Dr Emine Yaman, New Dean at International University of Sarajevo!
Meet Dr Emine Yaman, New Dean at International University of Sarajevo!
International University of Sarajevo (IUS) is the only university in the West Balkans that created and is implementing a Gender Equality Plan in higher education.
Progressing Towards Transparency - More Journals Join Wiley's Transparent Peer Review Pilot
Progressing Towards Transparency - More Journals Join Wiley's Transparent Peer Review Pilot
Wiley claim they are committed to moving towards greater openness and reproducibility of research, including increasing transparency in peer review
Additional Points in My Plan S Response
Further to my other post earlier this week, I have added the additional points to my response letter to the Plan S implementation guidelines. These centre around monographs (9), REF involvement in Plan S (10), infrastructural support (11), the "time of publication" (12), clarification of the term "quality" (13), compliance of existing software with repository requirements (14), publisher deposition (15), and the ability to pursue defamation suits for wrongful attribution and reputational damage with the waiver of moral rights under CC BY 4.0 (16). If number 16 could be resolved, the open licensing landscape would be much clearer. The full letter is now available.
Wellcome Open Research: Summary of Year 2
Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, Wellcome and Michael Markie, Publishing Director, F1000 highlight Wellcome Open Research's achievements after two years of publishing.
Launching the OLH Advocacy Network
In 2018, the OLH launched the EmpowOA programme, designed to provide scholars and librarians working in the humanities with tools, spaces and cogent arguments about open access. Now, the OLH extend the functionality for the visitors to the website
Report Results from Clinical Trials or Be Called to UK Parliament to Explain Why Not
Report Results from Clinical Trials or Be Called to UK Parliament to Explain Why Not
UK universities could be brought in front of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee if they fail to improve the reporting of clinical trials.
Open Data Day 2019 Mini-grant Scheme
Open Data Day is the yearly event where we gather to reach out to new people and build new solutions to issues in our communities using open data. To make sure some of those events have everything they needed to be great for their communities, mini-grants for the people organizing Open Data Day events will be provided.
The Data Opportunities for Publishers in 2019 - Silverchair
How has the open data movement matured over 2018 and what opportunities does it create for publishers in 2019?
My Draft Plan S Implementation Guidance Feedback
I write to provide feedback in an individual capacity on the Plan S implementation guidelines.
People with Extreme Anti-science Views Know the Least, but Think They Know the Most
People with Extreme Anti-science Views Know the Least, but Think They Know the Most
People often suffer from an 'illusion of knowledge,' write the authors of a new study that finds that people who hold the most extreme views about genetically modified foods know the least.
Policy Without Practice
Does it matter that there's no record of the Plan S leader publishing in a peer-reviewed journal?
European Parliament Petition on Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor - Green Tea and Velociraptors
European Parliament Petition on Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor - Green Tea and Velociraptors
Elsevier's role in the EU's Open Science Monitor is examined more closely.
Guidelines on How to Successfully Design, and Implement, Mission-oriented Research Programmes
Guidelines on How to Successfully Design, and Implement, Mission-oriented Research Programmes
SSH is crucial for succcess of programmes. These guidelines provide useful tools for those who deal - in one way or another - with research funding programmes.
Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Provide Recommendations for Plan S Implementation
Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Provide Recommendations for Plan S Implementation
Harvard Library and the MIT Libraries are in broad support of Plan S and its goals while also recomending certain adjustments to the implementation details.
Why We Need a Public Infrastructure for Data on Open Access
The necessity of developing a public infrastructure for open access, its benefits and the obstacles to reaching this goal.
Pay to Publish Open Access: On the DEAL-Wiley Agreement
Details of the contract between the German consortium DEAL and Wiley reveal that the transformative nature of this new big deal may come at a high cost.
Fundamentals of Data Visualization
A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.
Nature Beats Nurture when It Comes to Causing Diseases
Scientists dive into trove of insurance claims data to determine what causes most diseases.
International Collaboration Publishes Concept Design for a Post-LHC Future Circular Collider at CERN
International Collaboration Publishes Concept Design for a Post-LHC Future Circular Collider at CERN
Today, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration submitted its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for publication.
Patricia Falcone Talks About Women in Science on 'She Roars' Podcast
Leading scientist Patricia Falcone speaks with podcast host Margaret Koval about the importance of college mathematics, early research experience and clear communications.
Lab Severs Ties With James Watson, Citing 'Unsubstantiated and Reckless' Remarks
In a recent documentary, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist doubled down on comments he made a decade ago, then apologized for, regarding race, genetics and intelligence.
Editors of Informetrics Resign at Elsevier and Start New Journal
Today the entire editorial board of Informetrics, a major publication in the field of Scientometrics and Informetrics, has unanimously resigned their position. In the future they will dedicate their time to a new full open access journal: Quantitative Science Studies.
Well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing Information Flow in Science
Well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing Information Flow in Science
Information-aesthetic explorations of emerging patterns in scientific citation networks. A cooperation between the Eigenfactor® Project (data analysis) and Moritz Stefaner (visualization).
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