Open Science in Africa
A review of the development of Open Science Services in Africa, initiatives, the current situation and chances in the future.
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The Game of Open Access
The "Game of Open Access" is a board game developed by staff from Computing & Library Services at the University of Huddersfield. The aim is to to engage researchers with the key concepts and tools required to meet Open Access mandates. Through the use of playful learning, it aims to develop an understanding of the role of Open Access through the initial idea for an article to its acceptance for publication.
Change - Challenging Gender (In)Equality in Science and Research
The main aim of CHANGE is it to support research performing organisations (RPOs) to design and implement gender equality plans. This will be achieved by involving key actors, called Transfer Agents (TAs), within each organisation who will together with the core consortium partners transmit co-produced gender equality knowledge inside their institutions.
Elsevier: the Price of Success
In its most recent publication, Education International examines the publishing giant Elsevier, whose success on the market is based on ethically questionable practices which endanger the transmission of knowledge and its condition as a public good.
Breaking the Ice Well, Part 2
2017 marked the first year of the AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program (CEFP), funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Sustainable Development of Science and Scientists
Academic training, where senior scientists transfer their knowledge and skills to junior scientists through apprenticeship, plays a crucial role in the development of scientists. This study focuses on two aspects of academic training, autonomy and exploration.
How to Make Career Advancement in Economics More Inclusive
Men are overrepresented in senior academic positions in Economics. What factors can explain this phenomenon, and how can we make the academic environment more inclusive?
Science Communication Is Not an End in Itself: (Dis)Assembling the Science Festival
Science Communication Is Not an End in Itself: (Dis)Assembling the Science Festival
Much science communication research focuses on how science is represented and how science communication products are consumed. This article instead explores the production of a set of science communication projects, arguing that actor-network theory (ANT) can be one possible tool for such research.
Preregistration: Try It (Or Not)
So, as the Statistical War and Tone War are in a lull, the Preregistration conflict has flared up yet again.
Time to Get ECRs Involved
It is a great challenge to get Early Career Researchers (ECRs) involved in peer review and to get them the necessary training to be confident reviewers.
Why Data Citation Matters to Publishers and Data Repositories
Transparency and reproducibility, reuse, and credit are three key reasons why data sharing and data citation are important for scientific progress.
The Good, the Bad, and the Expensive
In her Crossref LIVE18 Keynote speech this week, Coko's Kristen Ratan questioned the sense of the industry's continuing resignation to being locked in to costly, print-based, outdated workflows and technologies (some of which are now owned by competitor publishers). "Publishers are mired in print p
Open Letter on Plan S to the European Commission and Research Funders
The Young Academy of Sweden agrees that results from publicly funded science should be open and accessible, but needs a predictable system for dissemination of scientific findings, a system which remains robust over time and which has acceptance within the science community.
OASPA Open Science Webinar: November 29th
This webinar provides a viewpoint on open science and publishing from the perspective of researchers and those involved in outreach and policy for research communication at institutions and on the European Open Science Policy Platform. What is open science for them, how does it relate to open access and publishing, and what role do they and publishers have in the shift towards open science?
Five Ways Academics Can Contribute to Wikipedia
Contributing to Wikipedia is rewarding, but it can be a significant commitment of time and effort; there are, however, plenty of other ways you can help that don’t involve one-off editing events
Science Should Not Pay for Overpaid CEOs of Academic Publishers
Gerard Meijer closed the first open access (offsetting) deals with the major scientific publishers. As his fellow scientists now oppose the new 'Plan S' he looks on with surprise and disappointments.
Why (almost) Everything We Know About Citations is Wrong: Evidence from Authors
Why (almost) Everything We Know About Citations is Wrong: Evidence from Authors
Although citations and related metrics like the H-index are widely used in academia to evaluate research and allocate resources, the referencing decisions on which they are based are poorly understood. This paper investigates whether authors reference works that influenced them most or those they believe the readers will value most.
The Evaluation of Scholarship in Academic Promotion and Tenure Processes: Past, Present, and Future - F1000Research
The Evaluation of Scholarship in Academic Promotion and Tenure Processes: Past, Present, and Future - F1000Research
Review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) processes significantly affect how faculty direct their own career and scholarly progression. Although RPT practices vary between and within institutions, and affect various disciplines, ranks, institution types, genders, and ethnicity in different ways, some consistent themes emerge when investigating what faculty would like to change about RPT. For instance, over the last few decades, RPT processes have generally increased the value placed on research, at the expense of teaching and service, which often results in an incongruity between how faculty actually spend their time vs. what is considered in their evaluation. Another issue relates to publication practices: most agree RPT requirements should encourage peer-reviewed works of high quality, but in practice, the value of publications is often assessed using shortcuts such as the prestige of the publication venue, rather than on the quality and rigor of peer review of each individual item.
Elsevier Are Placing the Future of Scholarly Research at Risk | Unite for Quality Education
Elsevier Are Placing the Future of Scholarly Research at Risk | Unite for Quality Education
Arguments over European Open-access Plan Heat Up
Biochemist Lynn Kamerlin tells Nature why she has coordinated an open letter - signed by more than 950 scientists - objecting to Plan S.
7 Female Science YouTubers That Are Breaking STEM Glass Ceilings
At IE, we are proud to celebrate women in STEM and in that spirit we have combined a list of our favorite seven female-lead YouTube science shows! You go girls!
Orban's Government Vs. The Social Sciences
A public talk that a PhD student, Orsolya Vasarhelyi, and I were scheduled to give on November 8, 2018 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' (HAS) "Hungarian Day of Science" was censored by the Academy's deputy secretary-general Beáta Mária Barnabás. In English, our talk's title could be translated
Would Preregistration Speed or Slow Progress in Science? A Debate with Richard Shiffrin.
Would Preregistration Speed or Slow Progress in Science? A Debate with Richard Shiffrin.
A blog about the science of human behavior and the human behavior of scientists.
ACS V. ResearchGate - 3,143 Articles and a Few Lessons About Their Authors - Scholarly Communications @ Duke
ACS V. ResearchGate - 3,143 Articles and a Few Lessons About Their Authors - Scholarly Communications @ Duke
In October, Elsevier and ACS filed a new US copyright infringement lawsuit against ResearchGate [complaint]. Like the German ResearchGate lawsuit I wrote about last year, the basic premise of the suit is the same. This is how Elsevier and ACS describe ResearchGate's activities in the American lawsuit: In egregious violation of copyright law, ResearchGate provides … Continue reading ACS v. ResearchGate - 3,143 articles and a few lessons about their authors →
Video Games Could Be a Short-term Answer to Science's Gender Problem
New research shows girls are more likely to take physical science or technology degrees if they play video games.
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