(30 Jan 2024) Open access is built on the promise that more people are able to access and use research. Putting this to the test, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Cameron Neylon and Lucy Montgomeryexplore where citations come from for 19 million research outputs and find that open access is indeed working as it is meant to – allowing more…
(30 Jan 2024) The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has announced the launch of Reformscape – an online resource enabling the global academic community to explore and share examples of how to make hiring, promotion and tenure fairer, more robust and more diverse. For years, the traditional way in which academic careers are…
(14 Feb 2024) n collaboration with more than 30 industry organisations, Silverchair and Oxford University Press (OUP) have launched Sensus Impact – an initiative to enhance reporting and demonstrate the impact of research supported by funders. By connecting the academic community with a range of insightful metrics in one place, Sensus Impact aims to help address the industry-wide…
(10 Feb 2024) A six-year collaborative research program in global and diplomatic history that investigates the often overlooked role of international treaties in imperial expansion is currently being hosted by Linnaeus University in Kalmar and Växjö, Sweden. Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia is a project to systematically analyse all of the approximately one thousand bilateral treaties concluded between…
(7 Feb 2024) Future Libraries is a two-part initiative from CILIP to challenge and engage librarians and library leaders to reimagine libraries in a world of rapidly evolving living and working patterns. Part 1 is ‘Come Rain or Shine: Preparing public libraries for the future in an age of uncertainty’ that envisions the challenges and…
(14 Feb 2024) Plagiarism seems to be everywhere and no institution, no matter how venerated, appears to be safe. Though it’s easy (and at least partially correct) to blame much of this rise on the weaponization of plagiarism, that weaponization wouldn’t have much impact if the plagiarism didn’t exist, at least to some degree. So, what…
(Feb 2024) About the position: Phenomics Australia is a founding member of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), and provides a national system of research facilities and expertise to facilitate precision medicine for the Australian and international research communities. Phenomics Australia has nodes across several Australian universities and medical research institutes. Located at…
(31 Jan 2024) Research data repositories play a vital role in ensuring research is reproducible, replicable and reusable. Yet, the infrastructure supporting them can be impermanent. Drawing on a new datasetDorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel, Rouven Schabinger and Nina Leonie Weisweiler, explore how common data repository shutdowns are and suggest what can be done to ensure data preservation in the long-term.…
(23 Jan 2024) Berlin-based startup closed Series B funding round led by Molten Ventures with an eye to leading the market in workflow solutions that enable academic societies and publishers to protect research integrity and publish with confidence. Morressier today announced it has attracted $16.5m in investment in a Series B round led by Molten…
(5 Feb 2024) As PhychologyToday reported, social media, a prominent source of short-form content, inhibits attention spans and often dilutes language, favoring informal, conversational styles. This style of writing, seen in scrolling blurbs, offers less exposure to rich vocabulary and complex concepts, making lengthy books more challenging for such people. Research indicates that comprehension is six to…