As the real possibility of platform death looms for Twitter, Mark Carrigan reflects on the role of the platform as stage for the accumulation of academic social capital and urges academics, learned…
U.S. Indicts Two Russians for Running the 'Z-Library' Piracy Ring. Two masterminds have been arrested in Argentina and domains seized. The site is still running in the dark web.
The U.S. Government has indicted two Russian nationals who stand accused of operating the ebook piracy site Z-Library.
Preprint as a Way to Universal Open Access. In eight drawings by Dasapta Erwin Irawan.
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"More than 2000 journals share price and service data through Plan S’s Journal Comparison Service." Narrator: many large legacy publishers are missing.
<p>cOAlition S is pleased to report that 27 publishers – who publish more than 2000 journals – have embraced the Journal Comparison Service (JCS) and shared their service and price data, responding to the call for transparent pricing of publishing services. cOAlition S wishes to praise these publish...
The Open Access Tracking Project is now also on Mastodon
2.23K Posts, 0 Following, 998 Followers · Crowdsourced alerts & news feeds about #openaccess to research. See http://bit.ly/o-a-t-p for info on how it works & how to help. Founded & managed by @petersuber. ISSN 2578-7020. Sorry, I'm a bot. You can like, boost, or reply to my toots but I can't do th...
Looking for examples of p-hacking in psychology
> Hi, I'm currently working on an assignment regarding p-hacking. I want to make the point that p-hacking can have real-life consequences, as the data being put out there could be applied in the wrong way. I already have an example of how p-hacking led to the WHO canceling their distribution of malaria medication. > > But, I need a specific example from psychology, and I can't find anything. I find plenty of papers explaining that p-hacking is common and why it's a problem, but no concrete examples of studies where p-hacking was discovered. Does anyone have an example in mind? Or maybe a study whose results have been questioned? > > Thank you in advance!
Analysing Elsevier Journal Metadata with a New Specialized Workbench inside ICSR Lab. #OpenData #PeerReview
In this white paper we introduce Elsevier's Peer Review Workbench which will be available via the computational platform ICSR Lab. The workbench offers a unique
"CORE to become an independent Open Access service from August 2023." Public funding for the Open Access search engine will be cut.
Jisc and The Open University have had a long-standing relationship delivering CORE (core.ac.uk) for over 10 years. During this time, the service has grown from a project to an important and widely …
Prestigious journal’s announcement has drawn a mixed reaction from scientists.
"Help Shape the Transition to Open." What libraries can do.
We do not need to reinvent the library’s mission for this shift to open, but we do need to update the criteria in our decision-making processes and then adjust our course.
Mastodon enables community autonomy, is a social enterprise in and of itself and shifts the site’s scaling focus from sheer number of users to quality engagement and niche communities.
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Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape. The Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication asserts that the disqualification of local or national languages in academic publishing is the most important - a...
As an advocate of Open Science, one thing that strikes me is how many academics believe that Open Science is an all-or-nothing approach. How, then, can we find the right amount of being exposed?...
Mastodon fits to our requirements for #OpenScience infrastructure. It is a communication standard, like email. So billionaires cannot buy it.
Announcement of a new Mastodon server for publishing scientists
Sign-ups to FediScience.org, the Mastodon server for publishing scientists, have exploded today. We probably had more sign-ups today than in 2022 before.
Like with email you have to pick a server to sign-up and then you can talk to (almost) everyone. Here is a list of options for people interested in science, academia, GLAM, etc. https://fediscience.org/server-list.html
The Open Access journal Nature Communications to publish all review reports in future.
Starting in 2016, we have offered authors the option to publish the comments received from the reviewers and their responses alongside the paper. As we believe that transparency strengthens the quality of peer review, we are now moving to publish the exchanges between authors and reviewers for ...
Scientific Publishing: Peer review without gatekeeping. "eLife will now ... every paper we review, along with our reviews and an assessment as a Reviewed Preprint"
eLife is changing its editorial process to emphasize public reviews and assessments of preprints by eliminating accept/reject decisions after peer review.
