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Das Projekt OA Datenpraxis verfolgt das Ziel, die Open-Access-Transformation in Deutschland voranzubringen, indem der Umgang mit Publikations- und Kostendaten untersucht und unterstützt wird. Das Projektteam hat nun Informations- und Lernmaterialien zu Monitoringaktivitäten mit offenen Datenquellen veröffentlicht.

Appalachian Figures On a cold November day in 1921, women across Kentucky stepped into voting booths for the first time in a presidential election. In Boyd County, a former Pikeville schoolteacher and Ashland journalist named Mary Elliott Flanery did more than mark a ballot.

Appalachian Figures In eastern Kentucky political memory, few names draw as mixed a reaction as Leo A. Marcum.

Appalachian Figures If you walk the streets of The Market Common in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the name “Reed” appears on a street sign and on the General Robert H. Reed Recreation Center. City markers explain that the building honors a retired four star Air Force general who helped turn a shuttered base into a thriving neighborhood, and who insisted that its military history not be forgotten.

Appalachian Figures On an autumn morning in 2024, flags across Kentucky dipped to half staff in memory of a state senator from Harlan County. Governor Andy Beshear’s order was brief, but it marked an extraordinary thing for a boy who had once walked from a Pine Mountain homeplace to a mission school in his bare feet.

Appalachian Figures On a ridge above the Pine Mountain valley in Harlan County, a stone house still looks west down the long hollow. Its terraces are dry laid from local rock, its chimney and foundation fitted so tightly that a century of rain has barely opened the seams. Local tradition remembers the place simply as Zande House, after the man who built it by hand.

Appalachian Figures If you follow Caney Creek up through the narrow valley of Knott County, you eventually reach a campus that looks almost like a small town of its own.

Appalachian Figures In the spring of 1940, a national newsmagazine sent a reporter into a narrow Kentucky valley where students hauled their own coal, scrubbed their own floors, and climbed stone steps to class on a hillside campus that seemed to grow straight out of the rock.

DOI: 10.60804/71BR-9Z42 Can you tell us a bit about your role at PLOS, and your involvement with open science? I’m the Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS and I have responsibility for the Editorial department. PLOS’s mission is to drive open science forward through meaningful changes in publishing.

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new matching strategy in the ROR API to help you match complex affiliation text strings to ROR IDs at scale.