Assessment of Preprint Policies of Top-Ranked Clinical Journals
This cross-sectional study examines the preprint publication policies of 100 clinical journals with the highest impact factor.
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Cross-Sectoral Mobility Funding and the Challenge of Immersion: The Case of SSH
Cross-Sectoral Mobility Funding and the Challenge of Immersion: The Case of SSH
Cross-sectoral mobility funding requires recipients to change their environment and often some aspects of their research. There is a need to understand the impact on the researchers' experiences as knowledge producers within such programs, as part of the broader potential and significance of cross-sectoral mobility funding.
"The 2020s Will Be the Decade of the Humanities and Social Sciences", Says New British Academy President
"The 2020s Will Be the Decade of the Humanities and Social Sciences", Says New British Academy President
The British Academy today announces that Professor Julia Black, Strategic Director of Innovation and Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will be its 31st President, succeeding the historian Professor Sir David Cannadine.
New Recommendations to Improve the Status of Women Faculty
A report on the status of women faculty at EPFL outlines common challenges faced by women professors, and more importantly, recommendations on how to move forward.
Help Us Get to Know the Open Access Journals and Platforms That Are Free of Charge for Readers and Authors
Help Us Get to Know the Open Access Journals and Platforms That Are Free of Charge for Readers and Authors
We are pleased to invite you to fill in a survey dedicated to gaining in-depth understanding of open access journals that don’t charge author-fees, often known as the “diamond model”; journals that are free to both readers and authors. In addition, we are launching a crowdsourcing effort to list diamond journals not yet covered in major databases like DOAJ.
Controversial 'human Challenge' Trials for COVID-19 Vaccines Gain Support
Volunteers line up, and labs set to work on viral strains for controlled infections
Covid-19 Vaccines With 'Minor Side Effects' Could Still Be Pretty Bad
The risk of nasty side effects in the Moderna and Oxford trials should be made clear now, before it ends up as fodder for the skeptics.
COAlition S Response to the ERC Scientific Council's Statement on Open Access and Plan S
COAlition S Response to the ERC Scientific Council's Statement on Open Access and Plan S
cOAlition S has taken note that the ERC Scientific Council wishes to pursue their joint efforts towards Open Access in a more independent way. The European Commission, who directs the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, continues to support cOAlition S and Plan S.
Leaders Agree on Slimmed-down €80.9B for Horizon Europe
EU leaders agreed on a pared-back budget of €80.9 billion for the Horizon Europe research programme, in the fifth day of a marathon summit to debate the EU's long-term budget and a post-pandemic economic recovery plan. The final figure - a big blow to research advocates - is significantly lower than a proposes €94.4 billion put forward by the European Commission in May, as the budget for the R&D programme has been cut multiple times throughout the summit.
ERC Scientific Council Withdraws Support for Plan S - Research Professional News
ERC Scientific Council Withdraws Support for Plan S - Research Professional News
The reversal is intended to 'preserve equity among research communities' and protect young researchers.
Research Budget Still Uncertain, As Leaders Push Talks into Fourth Day
As EU budget negotiations entered a fourth day in Brussels, the amount of funding that will be available for research and innovation is still unknown - but advocates mounted an online campaign to defend it.
Scholarly Publishing Has Bigger Fish to Fry Than Access
The main issues any modernisation of the scholarly infrastructure today needs to address are reliability, affordability and functionality.
Rethinking Research Support - The Problem
Research moves fast. Policies and practices change quickly. Information flows rapidly. Google and other dynamic online services move with blistering speed. Libraries have a hard time keeping up. Ph…
Plan S Rights Retention Strategy
cOAlition S has developed a Rights Retention Strategy to give researchers supported by a cOAlition S Organisation the freedom to publish in their journal of choice, including subscription journals, whilst remaining fully compliant with Plan S.
Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It's Margaret Rossiter's Lifelong Mission to Fix That
Start a Family, Don't Stop Research
Taking time out to have a child should not mean derailing a research career, says Adrienne Hopkins, lead author of LERU's new paper on family leave.
Experts Aren't Just for Emergencies: How COVID-19 is Changing Evidence-based Policy Making for the Better
COAlition S Develops "Rights Retention Strategy" to Safeguard Researchers' Intellectual Ownership Rights and Suppress Unreasonable Embargo Periods
COAlition S Develops "Rights Retention Strategy" to Safeguard Researchers' Intellectual Ownership Rights and Suppress Unreasonable Embargo Periods
Publishers commonly require authors to sign exclusive publishing agreements which restrict what authors can do with their research findings, including making articles Open Access in line with their funders’ requirements. To address this problem, cOAlition S has developed a Rights Retention Strategy, which will empower their funded researchers to publish in their journal of choice, including subscription journals, and provide Open Access in compliance with Plan S.
University Associations Renew Call for Higher R&D Budget
University Associations Renew Call for Higher R&D Budget
University associations have renewed a call for a higher budget for EU research and innovation and for academic exchange programmes, after the latest budget draft by EU Council president Charles Michel proposed a €5 billion cut from Horizon Europe.
Is There Really a Covid Mental Health Crisis?
The coronavirus has obviously brought with it an epidemic of anxiety and depression. Or has it?
How Gödel's Proof Works
His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we're still coming to grips with the
Improving Research Assessment in the Triage Phase of Review
Improving Research Assessment in the Triage Phase of Review
Universities and research funders are increasingly reconsidering the relevance and importance of researchers' contributions when assessing them for hiring, promotion or funding.
What Do Libraries Keep When They Cancel the Big Deal?
How do libraries decide which titles to keep when they cancel the Big Deal? What do the results look like?
Open Metrics Require Open Infrastructure
Today, remove the altmetrics.com badges from their landing pages-and we couldn't be more energized by their commitment to open infrastruct…
Digital Tools Against COVID-19
The Lancet Digital Health has published a paper from BKC Executive Director Urs Gasser and colleagues from ETH Zurich's Health Ethics & Policy Lab. Combining health policy, ethics, & tech governance knowledge with practical experience, the paper contributes to best-practice building during the global pandemic.
Announcing Creative Commons' New CEO, Catherine Stihler
Creative Commons has selected Catherine Stihler to be its next CEO.
Seven Recommendations for Implementation of FAIR Practice - Draft for Consultation
How to move from FAIR principles to FAIR practice? During the past year, the FAIR practice task force under the umbrella of the EOSC FAIR Working Group has been gathering its understanding of the current state of FAIR practices across diverse communities, and making recommendations aimed primarily at research funders and policymakers on how to ensure that "FAIR" provides maximum value in the European Open Science Cloud.
The Pandemic Is Pushing Scientists To Rethink How They Read Research Papers
The Pandemic Is Pushing Scientists To Rethink How They Read Research Papers
The coronavirus pandemic has posed a special challenge for scientists: Figuring out how to make sense of a flood of scientific papers from labs and scientists unfamiliar to them.
Open Access in Theory and Practice
Open Access in Theory and Practice investigates the theory-practice relationship in the domain of open access publication and dissemination of research outputs.
The COVID-19 Infodemic and the Future of the Communication of Science
This article looks at the balance between speed and uncertainty in scholarly communication, and how technology can facilitate better information travel.
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