In 1790, the French Academy of Sciences commissioned a rather ambitious survey. The goal was to measure the distance from the North Pole to the Equator along the meridian passing through Paris, then use that measurement to define a new universal unit of length: the metre.
A diversity index is a way to measure the prevalence species in an ecosystem. Although these arise naturally in ecology, diversity indexes show up elsewhere as well.
Readers with good memories will remember that back in May last year I announced I would be one of the two participants in the plenary debate that closes the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
Wer sich mit Open Science und den FAIR-Prinzipien beschäftigt, wird früher oder später auf sie stoßen: Persistente Identifikatoren bzw.
Anyone dealing with Open Science and the FAIR principles will sooner or later encounter persistent identifiers, or PIDs.
Mitte November folgen Maike Neufend und Georg Fischer vom Open Research Office Berlin einer Einladung nach Jena: Dort nehmen sie an einer gemeinsamen Konferenz des SFBs „Strukturwandel des Eigentums“ und der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena (ThULB) teil und stellen die Perspektive der Landeskoordinierungsstelle auf die Reputationsfrage vor.
Bioconductor on GPUs, tidyomics, Quarto 1.8, Anthropic red-teaming on AIxBio, PGS in the clinic, Shock Doctrine in genome engineering, GenAI for data viz with R, Datapalooza, 4 compact rejections
Archival work (photo courtesy of Helen Wheatley) People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my brilliant colleagues discussing the essential work that they have been able to do thanks to the previous researcher-led access arrangements at the BBC Written Archives.
Im September ist die Open-Access-Publikation Mörderische Verschwendung – Der Beginn des Holocaust im Generalgouvernement von Frank Grelka (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt) erschienen. Die Veröffentlichung wurde durch den Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg gefördert.
This October 20 – 26 is International Open Access Week 2025, organized by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee. PKP takes the time to answer the theme question, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” and invites communities to join in. This year’s theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, […] The post Who Owns Our Knowledge?