(12 Sep 2023) The Center for Scientific Integrity, the organisation behind the Retraction Watch blog and database, and Crossref, the global infrastructure underpinning research communications, both not-for-profits, announced today that the Retraction Watch database has been acquired by Crossref and made a public resource. An agreement between the two organisations will allow Retraction Watch to…
(27 Jun 2023) Funder and publisher mandates, coupled with a growing emphasis on open science and reproducibility, mean that researchers are increasingly depositing data alongside their publications. Other scientists can use those data to drive new research. But not every journal requires that authors make their data sets available, and some authors decline to do…
(2 Jun 2023) What does a data curator do? What are their daily tasks? What is challenging and rewarding about the job? The LIBER Research Data Management (RDM) Working Group explores these questions and more in their recently published interview with Data Curator, Matthias Töwe. Read on for an overview of the conversation and learn…
(5 Mar 2023) Data processes play a foundational role in just about every professional discipline, and data stakeholders all over the world are grappling with modernizing and optimizing data governance policies and practices. In this rapidly evolving landscape, what challenges will higher education face, and how will we rise to meet those challenges? How can we…
(20 Feb 2023) Australia now has a national framework for institutional research data management (RDM), which can help universities and research organisations create a data-rich institutional approach to research. To help institutions address the challenges around RDM, the ARDC has partnered with 25 Australian universities in the Institutional Underpinnings program to: facilitate a more cohesive, collaborative…
New online portal streamlines requests for massive data sets at 16 federal agencies (8 Dec 2022) The U.S. government has just made it easier for social scientists to get their hands on federally collected data they need for research. Starting today, an online portal offers one-stop shopping to apply for access to protected data sets maintained…
(14 Oct 2022) Researchers worldwide will need further assistance to help comply with an increasing number of open data mandates, according to the authors of a new report. The State of Open Data Report 2022 – the latest in an annual collaborative series from Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature – is released today (9:00am BST Thursday 13 October). Based on a…
(15 Sep 2022) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will invest $130 million over four years, pending the availability of funds, to accelerate the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) by the biomedical and behavioral research communities. The NIH Common Fund’s Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program is assembling team members from diverse disciplines and…
(22 Aug 2022) The Research Data Alliance (RDA) 19th Plenary Meeting took place from the 20th to 23rd June as a part of International Data Week (IDW) 2022 in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. The hybrid conference, organized in collaboration with the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), welcomed 827…
(29 Jul 2022) The U.S. National Institutes of Health sponsored a meeting in April 2021 to consider how to increase the scientific culture of data sharing. The editors of this special section of Harvard Data Science Review on the meeting asked three prominent scientists to provide perspectives from Europe on data sharing and management and about…