A paper that I helped to peer review is now published, and should be of interest. Here’s the abstract: Digital scholarship and electronic publishing among the scholarly communities are changing when metrics and open infrastructures take centre stage for measuring research impact. In scholarly communication, the growth of preprint repositories over the last three decades […]
Today the Open Science MOOC hit 300 enrolled participants for the pilot module on open source and open research software. We’ve also started handing out the first certificates, which is a fantastic achievement for the community. Congratulations to everyone involved – this is a great start to the project! Don’t forget that you can help […]
Welcome to your usual roundup of interesting stuff that happened in the last month from the worlds of Open Science and Palaeontology! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Previous time. Palaeontology News Nikolov: Osteohistology of the hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from Labirinta cave, Bulgaria: An example of insular dwarfism or simply young giant? Lowery […]
Just a little heads up, a talk I gave for the SciELO 20 year anniversary conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is now online! Had the simple task of talking about the global landscape of Open Science in under 15 minutes. Easy peasy. Slides are also available via Figshare.
Welcome to your usual roundup of interesting stuff that happened in the last month from the worlds of Open Science and Palaeontology! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Previous time. Palaeontology News Rudenko: Prehistoric Body Theater: Bringing Paleontology Narratives to Global Contemporary Performance Audiences. This is just a special bit of magic! Brocklehurst: Vertebral […]
For those of you who have been following, there has been a lot of controversy about the role of Elsevier in the European Commission’s Open Science Monitor. Recently, the European Commission responded, and I was interviewed for ResearchResearch about this. My full, unedited comments are here for transparency : So yeah, the EC […]
Welcome to your usual roundup of interesting stuff that happened in the last month from the worlds of Open Science and Palaeontology! Enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything out. Previous time. Palaeontology News Lomax: A forefin of Leptonectes solei from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Dorset, UK. Deline et al: Evolution of metazoan morphological disparity. […]
A recent investigation led by an international group of journalists raised concerns over the scale of the problem of deceptive publishing practices, with many researchers of standing and reputation found to have published in “predatory” journals. However, while the findings of this investigation garnered significant media attention, the robustness of the study itself was not […]
Today, an article was published in Science Business about some of the developments around Plan S, the European Commission’s ambitious new plans for Open Access. The piece includes a quote from me, and I want to share my full responses here for the sake of transparency. Do you see any weaknesses in the plan? Some […]
What exactly is open science? It can be a social justice issue, part of a political capitalist regime or a form of traditional science. Source: Do we need an Open Science coalition? · Elephant in the Lab Reference: Tennant, J. (2018). Do we need an Open Science coalition? Elephant in the Lab. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1407963