Putting their money where their mouth is, the EU decides to make academic publishing open source:
"utilizing existing open-source software has its own advantages and disadvantages. Although some risks are associated with this approach, our research has identified a few mature existing solutions that could be further developed to support the future ORE platform." https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/cc087fd8-82b3-11ee-99ba-01aa75ed71a1/language-en
In addition to supporting #preprints, content #mining, and #DORA#assessment reforms, it applies #CCBY licenses to all research carried out at the institute.
We are hosting a panel in the #STSGraz24 conference's #OpenScience Track: "Hack the Hackathon: Challenges of Inclusion, Participation, and Fairness.
The conference is taking place May 6 - 8 2024 and, of course, in Graz, Austria.
How can advocacy for a search engine monopoly be reduced (by practical editorial changes) in the English-language #Wikipedia?
This is a fundamental meta-academic question (reviews of knowledge) for which practical participation - with evidence and arguments - would be better than postmodernist gobbledegook or neoliberal empty rhetoric.
New study shows that "academic researchers [are] demoralised by a culture that disincentivises sharing and collaboration, encourages questionable research practices, and increases the risk of bias."
"...writing research under the pressure to find 'impactful' results [make me feel] like 'I'm a novel writer instead of a researcher'" explains one interviewee.
It breaks my heart thinking about all the #students who were ready to start their new #MSc or #phd in foreign countries and now they have to give up because they cannot travel from many more countries other than #Israel and #Palestine
🔔 NEU 🔔 Alle 10.310 Urteile des Bundesfinanzhofs (BFH) ab Januar 2010 stehen jetzt als Datensatz zur Verfügung. Der BFH ist das oberste deutsche Bundesgericht für #Steuern und #Zölle
A whistleblower has revealed a prolific paper mill:
The paper mill proposes "special issues to hundreds of journals from major publishers. The whistleblower estimates that around 5% of the journals accepted these proposals. Once in control of these specials, [the paper mill] team included fraudulent or irrelevant studies that cited previous papers on the same topic." This artificially inflates paper mill affiliated authors' citations.
🔔 Update 🔔 Curious about my tech tools and workflow? I've updated and greatly expanded the annotated list of favorite open source tools on my website: https://seanfobbe.com/code/
Includes both general tools (browser, e-mail, OS, editor) and data science specific tools (R, R packages, reproducible science).
The Socio-Environmental Knowledge Commons (SEEKCommons) project is dedicated to building pathways for horizontal collaborations across #STS, #OpenScience, & socio-environmental researchers and community organizers
The SEEKCommons Fellowship is an initiative to bring graduate students & ECRs w new perspectives & voices to socio-environmental research with open technologies
In France we have a law since 2016 that brings down the embargo period for open publishing down to 6 months (or 12 for social sciences) no matter what you signed.
Also, the CNRS is pushing for everyone to publish the preprint version in CC-BY before they give up your copyright.
Finally you need to publish on HAL if you want your papers to count towards your annual report.
Is there any other laws / initiative like this on other countries?