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University of Zurich: A Step Forward for Open Science
The University of Zurich has just taken a big step forward on the open science path.
OpenCitations in Five Hundred Words
Summary of a talk at the 2021 OASPA Conference, with the title OpenCitations - what does the future hold.
The Evolving Role of Scientific Editing
In a collaborative open peer review process, the editor's role changes as much as the reviewer's role.
Open Reviewer Identities: Full Steam Ahead or Proceed with Caution?
Open peer review has been growing steadily but its implementations take many different forms. This post takes a deep dive into the question of whether reviewers should be openly identified.
Practice What You Preach: Credibility-enhancing Displays and the Growth of Open Science
Practice What You Preach: Credibility-enhancing Displays and the Growth of Open Science
How can individual scientists most effectively spread the adoption of open science practices? The authors propose visible open science badges, especially by prestigious scientists.
Making Strides in Research Reporting - The Official PLOS Blog
Making Strides in Research Reporting - The Official PLOS Blog
PLOS keeps a watchful and enthusiastic eye on emerging research, and we update our policies as needed to address new challenges and opportunities that surface.
Swiss Ph.D Student's Dismissal Spotlights China's Influence
A Swiss Ph.D. student tweeted critically about China. Afterward, his professor at the University of St. Gallen wanted nothing more to do with him, worried that her own ability to get a visa would be at risk.
Beware Performative Reproducibility
Well-meant changes to improve science could become empty gestures unless underlying values change.
Swissuniversities Adopts the Open Research Data Strategy
By adopting the Open Research Data (ORD) Strategy, swissuniversities has taken a further step towards Open Science and follows on the existing Open Access strategy.
Navigating Open Access, Science What It Means for Early Career Members
Navigating Open Access, Science What It Means for Early Career Members
There are increased discussions around open access and open science in journals, but what do these terms really mean? Here we try to dissect its meaning for early career scientists and professionals.
Open Science in Spain: Towards a Coordinated Strategy
Spain needs to set out a wider and clear OS strategy and take decisive, coordinated actions that build upon and improve existing structures to bring itself back to the forefront of OS.
The Openness Profile of Knowledge Exchange: What Can Infrastructure Providers Do?
The Openness Profile of Knowledge Exchange: What Can Infrastructure Providers Do?
Knowledge Exchange, a cooperative partnership of six national research-supporting organisations in Europe, has explored the development of an Openness Profile during an 18-month research evaluation of Open Science.
UNESCO Embraces Open Science to Shape Society's Future
After a consultation process, the 193 member states of the United Nations cultural organization UNESCO started negotiating the final text of its ‘Recommendation on Open Science’ this month.
Beyond Vaccines, UNESCO Wants More Global Science Shared
While the U.S. president is calling for suspending patents on COVID-19 vaccines, experts at UNESCO are quietly working on a more ambitious plan: a new global system for sharing scientific knowledge that would outlast the current pandemic.
Why Some Researchers Oppose Unrestricted Sharing of Coronavirus Genome Data
Why Some Researchers Oppose Unrestricted Sharing of Coronavirus Genome Data
Global South scientists say that an open-access movement led by wealthy nations deprives them of credit and undermines their efforts.
Manage Your Affiliations with a Few Simple Clicks
Can you upload a CSV file? Are you an ORCID Consortia Member? Then you can add affiliation data to your researchers' records with our Affiliation Manager!
EOSC Portal User Survey
The Horizon 2020 project EOSC Enhance is launching an open survey targeting the entire EOSC community, to look more closely at individuals who create EOSC, understand who they are, where they come from and, most importantly, what they need in their everyday (research) activities.
To Boldly Grow: Five New Journals Shaped by Open Science
Announcing the launch of five new journals, all addressing global health and environmental challenges and rooted in the full values of Open Science.
Joint Statement on Data Repository Criteria
Open Science requires a sustainable, trustworthy and comprehensive network of repositories that can support researchers around the world in managing, sharing and preserving their data, argue Science Europe, COAR, CoreTrustSeal, the European University Association, and the World Data System.
Open Science Factsheet: Practical Steps Towards Open and Reproducible Research
Open Science Factsheet: Practical Steps Towards Open and Reproducible Research
This factsheet is a result of the 57th online seminar "Practical Steps Towards Open and Reproducible Research" (10 February 2021), organised by the Helmholtz Open Science Office.
Why Researchers Created a Database of Half a Million Journal Editors
Why Researchers Created a Database of Half a Million Journal Editors
Tracking how factors such as biases and conflicts of interest creep into editorial boards requires better data.
University of Toronto Researchers Accelerate Embrace of Open Science
Quickly sharing the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus in early 2020 made all the difference in the response to the pandemic.
Biden Made a Promise to Scientists. He Can Still Keep It.
Researchers who receive federal help consistently fail to report their results to the public. The government should hold them accountable.
Towards Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Unreliable research programmes waste funds, time, and even the lives of the organisms we seek to help and understand. Reducing this waste and increasing the value of scientific evidence require changing the actions of both individual researchers and the institutions they depend on for employment and promotion. While ecologists and evolutionary biologists have somewhat improved research transparency over the past decade (e.g. more data sharing), major obstacles remain. In this commentary, we lift our gaze to the horizon to imagine how researchers and institutions can clear the path towards more credible and effective research programmes.
Data Together: Fostering Cooperation Among Open Science Platforms
Collectively referred to as Data Together, the four collaborating international data organisations-CODATA, GO FAIR, RDA, WDS-have a joint commitment to work together to optimise the global research data ecosystem and to identify opportunities that will trigger federated infrastructures to service the new reality of data-driven science.
Has Covid-19 Changed Researcher Behaviour?
We hope that the scale and reach of the Covid-19 pandemic will realise sustained change in the research culture, with openness and collaboration firmly embedded.
Do You Obey Public-Access Mandates? Google Scholar is Watching
Search-engine co-founder Anurag Acharya explains why it now tells authors when their papers should be made free to read.
CODECHECK: an Open Science Initiative
An Open Science initiative for the independent execution of computations underlying research articles during peer review to improve reproducibility.
2 Interesting Scholarly Datasets Obtained from Web Scraping - Open Editors & Open Syllabus
2 Interesting Scholarly Datasets Obtained from Web Scraping - Open Editors & Open Syllabus
"Open Editors" & "Open Syllabus" are two interesting datasets obtained from wide scale web scraping due to lack of structured , machine readable data
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