Source: New paper: “Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing” – Data, Tech & Policy

Source: The New England Journal of Medicine, open access, Plan S, and undeclared conflicts of interest   | Richard Smith’s non-medical blogs

Welcome to the Open Science MOOC! The Open Science MOOC, which stands for massively open online community, is a project based around people. It is a peer-to-peer community of practice, based around sharing of knowledge and ideas, learning new skills, and using these things to develop as individuals, so that research communities can grow as […]

Plan S is about Open Access. But Open Science is so much more and includes other aspects, like Open Data, Open Source, Open Standards. But like Publications have hijacked knowledge dissemination (think research assessment), we risk that Open Access is hijacking the Open Science ambition. If you find Open Science more important than Open Access, […]

I have to share this awesome announcement of AmeliCA, a new strategy towards achieving Open Access from Latin America. This is a strong new plan, set on bold principles, and from my perspective makes Plan S look relatively weak. Perhaps the biggest implication that I can gather from this post is the clear prioritising of […]

Another great post by Dr. Aleksandra Sokolowska. Excerpt: Imagine what would happen if universities established a decentralized network of higher education institutions protecting the legacy of humankind and maintaining the quality of it directly, not via services of monopolistic middlemen. – The governmental funding could be invested into replication studies and could give jobs to […]

“Open practices are inherently good for you, your career, and your research. You can accrue citations faster, get greater exposure for your work, increase your speed of communication and collaboration, and even now get more funding and career opportunities. At the same time, the public gets access to your work and your findings can be […]

Big news to start the week: As more and more editorial boards come into conflict over the open science policies of their journal, one decides to resign and take their expertise elsewere. Today the entire editorial board of the Journal of Informetrics, a major publication in the field of Scientometrics and Informetrics, has unanimously resigned […]

Source: European Open Science Cloud: tra prospettive di crescita e diritti umani | Tech Economy (In Italian) Translated excerpt: In conclusion, according to Tennant ” the debate must focus on the founding values ​​of science and on how these can be promoted through the creation of an environment where researchers can work creatively and be […]

Source: Ancient killer whale snacked on fish, sharks, and…other whales | PLOS Paleo Community