We examine what generated crisis discussions, how they tended to unfold, and how they were resolved. And we derive some lessons from history for the current replication crisis.
This article first appeared at dataindex.us on 2/5/2026 and was cross-posted today as a guest post to the Data Rescue Project. Yesterday, the CIA made the surprising decision to shut down the World Factbook after more than sixty years of operation. This move was not just a simple website update.
En el siglo XIX mexicano las mujeres mayores fueron estigmatizadas y criticadas en las obras literarias y en la prensa, lo que coincidió con las ideas que se tenían sobre el envejecimiento femenino y el escaso número de personas que alcanzaban edades avanzadas.
Wie wirken Open-Access- und Open-Science-Strategien tatsächlich? Und was passiert in der Wechselbeziehung zwischen dem formulierten Anspruch und der wissenschaftlichen Realität? Diese Fragen standen im Mittelpunkt der Veranstaltung der Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg (VuK) am 14. Januar 2026 in der Reihe Quo Vadis offene Wissenschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg.
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is available around the clock and provides access to archived websites. This is not yet possible in Germany. Here, the reading room tool must be used. Read here why this is the case and who is authorized to archive under what conditions. The World Wide Web of the past decades […] The post Internet Archive – only in the reading room? appeared first on iRights.info.
How quickly time flies when you’re having fun!There’s a reason for the long silence on our blog – it may have looked like we were hibernating, but we have been […]
A new paper from Tiffany Timbers (UBC) and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel (Duke), and lessons I learned from my time with Software Carpentry
Auch wissenschaftliche und metawissenschaftliche Diskurse beruhen auf narrativen Elementen: Überzeugungskraft entsteht durch prägnante Erzählungen, die Fakten und Selbstverständnisse verknüpfen. Transformationsbewegungen wie Open Access und Open Science adressieren von Haus aus politisch-kulturelle Räume und etablieren sich als kohärente „Geschichten“.
Wie schnell die Zeit vergeht, wenn man Spaß hat!Die lange Stille auf unserem Blog hat ihren Grund – wir waren nämlich keineswegs im Winterschlaf, sondern erstellen gerade mit Hochdruck unsere […]
Palaeoverse, a grassroots organization that develops R packages for paleontology, has been awarded a Large Grant from the Software Sustainability Institute, via the Research Software Maintenance Fund, for the project ‘Converting Users to Contributors: Enabling Sustainable Maintenance and Development of Palaeoverse’.This funding will support efforts to improve the sustainability and maintainability of several key R packages used in
Since founding the Digital Research Academy, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can build organizations that are rooted in the values Open Science. An important aspect of this is ensuring their financial sustainability. We live in a capitalist world and as much as it annoys me sometimes, we all need an income.