Bei einer Podiumsdiskussion rückte Gerard Meijer, Vize-Sprecher der DEAL Gruppe, das Open-Access-Publizieren im Rahmen von DEAL in die Nähe von Diamond Open Access. Dabei unterscheiden sich die beiden Ansätze fundamental und sollten nicht miteinander verwechselt werden. Ein Diskussionsbeitrag aus dem Open-Access-Büro Berlin.
This is a guest blog post by Dawid Potgieter. Dawid leads the TWCF-funded Accelerating the Reach of Research on Consciousness (ARRC) project and shares some of the insights from the project in this blog post.
The Challenge of Survival for South Africa’s Penguins The distinctive penguins of South Africa, often recognized as endearing and engaging creatures, are currently facing a formidable battle for survival. With a variety of challenges confronting them, their very existence is at risk. The recent report by DW English sheds light on the dire situation of these flightless birds. Read the full article here.
“Disruption” is what happens when a different technology develops to a point where it does what yours does well enough to meet the needs of your customers. That means that, when customers switch, you can’t compete without changing your product completely. There’s a brilliant essay by Michael Nielsen from 2009 which predicted that disruption in academic publishing was imminent. It’s still worth a read, even now.
This blog post explores the difference between “core facilities” in RRID and “facilities” in ROR and provides guidance for those who run facilities on how to effectively use these identifiers. What is RRID and what is its scope? RRIDs (Research Resource Identifiers) help identify a wide variety of resources which are inputs to experiments , especially biomedical experiments.
Global health continues to grapple with a persistent tension between standardized, evidence-based interventions developed by international experts and the contextual, experiential local knowledge held by local health workers. This dichotomy – between global expertise and local knowledge – has become increasingly problematic as health systems face unprecedented complexity in addressing challenges from climate change to emerging diseases.
In 2020, Joachim Schöpfel and I planned to publish an anthology on research data, focussing on topics such as fake data (including AI-generated data), their detection, data markets, data reuse rates, blockchain, and health data. However, we had underestimated what had changed since 2018. Back then Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access, edited by Joachim and me was published.
Welcome to those of you who arrived here via the NAR 2025 Database issue link or the QR code from our Pharmacology 2024 poster. This blog post has been expanded post-meeting to include more details, background information
https://doi.org/10.60804/fkfy-1162 Make Data Count is a community hub for the development of metrics that can help us understand how data is used in research and policy activities. Several Make Data Count community members have given us their insights on the Data Citation Corpus, our project to build a central open aggregate of data citations.
The Future of Cleanup Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s edition of Co-Evolution ! Today, we’re diving into a topic that blends cutting-edge biotechnology with environmental justice: bioremediation. You may not have heard of the term before, but if you’ve ever hoped for a cleaner, greener future, this is where the action is happening.
Vom 16.-18. September 2024 fand in Bonn die fünfte Konferenz des Netzwerks Fluchtforschung unter dem Titel „Regionale und lokale Antworten auf globale Fluchtbewegungen: Kontexte, Herausforderungen, Lösungen“ statt. Über 400 Teilnehmende aus über 50 Staaten kamen zusammen, um sich über den Stand der Forschung sowie aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen auszutauschen.