Es gibt ein Zitat von William Gibson, Science-Fiction-Autor, das lautet: „Die Zukunft ist schon da, sie ist nur ungleich verteilt.“ Genauso ist es in der Forschungslandschaft mit IT-Kenntnissen und Datenkompetenzen.

I brought the science, and Sean brought the fiction. How a novel partnership built Synthetic Eden into a hard science fiction take on modern bioethics and genetic engineering.

In this interview with HighWire Press's Tony Alves, we learn that thanks to customer requests and a PID-aware development process, the publishing platform DigiCore Pro uses ROR in form lookups and automatic extraction processes for author affiliations, funder identification, peer reviewer affiliations, user disambiguation, and research integrity.

This month marks one year since the Dutch Research Council (NWO) introduced grant IDs—an important milestone in our journey toward more transparent and trackable research funding. We created over 1,600 Crossref Grant IDs with associated metadata. We are beginning to see them appear in publications.

Choosing where we source the food that we eat makes a difference to the environment, but by how much? After churning through around 100 petabytes of data, beginning with our LIFE metric and moving onto food provenance maps and import/export data for the world, we now know the answer can vary by three orders of magnitude for species extinction risks.

As ScholCommLab co-director Juan Pablo Alperin continues advancing in his career, he reflects on the path that brought him here.

por Lorena Torres Salmerón Dos crónicas noveladas de reciente publicación exploran distintas manifestaciones de las consecuencias sociales de la violencia que día con día atraviesa nuestro país. Por un lado, Fear is Just a Word, escrita por Azam Ahmed, y publicada a finales del 2023.

Appalachian History Series Kentucky on a Knife-edge In May 1861 Kentucky declared neutrality. That fragile stance crumbled in early September when Confederate forces seized crossings on the Mississippi at Columbus and moved through Cumberland Gap into the southeastern mountains.

Appalachian History Series Kentucky on a knife-edge In the summer and fall of 1861, neutrality in Kentucky faltered while both sides maneuvered for the mountain roads that led into the Bluegrass. Confederate Brigadier General Felix Zollicoffer pushed north from Tennessee after a small success at Barbourville, hoping to pry open eastern Kentucky.

Appalachian History Series Why Ivy Mountain Mattered In the fall of 1861, both armies probed Kentucky’s mountains for advantage. The Big Sandy valley offered a workable corridor between Virginia and the Bluegrass.

The textbook has long been a mainstay of education. Although online textbooks can provide students with easy (and sometimes free) access to increasingly interactive resources, authors have a bewildering array of tools and publishing models to select from.