KOALA ("Konsortiale Open Access Lösungen aufbauen") was initially the name of a BMBF-funded project (2021–2023) that developed a consortial funding model for Diamond Open Access publishing. During this phase, the foundational KOALA model was conceptualized, and two pilot consortia were launched. Since 2023, the TIB Hannover has continued the initiative as a regular service under the KOALA name.

Crossref and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) have been working closely together for many years, sharing resources and supporting our overlapping communities of organisations involved in communicating research.

I became aware of just while watching Hynek’s second video on uv a few months ago. I immediately fell in love with its elegance and simplicity, so I have begun replacing task running in my repositories that relied on tox with just. This post gives a bit of background, context, and walks through making the switch on one of my repositories that has some annoying dependencies.

I’ve been teaching phonetics for the first time in a while, and I wanted to make some animations illustrating how sounds are pressure waves in propagating through the air. I worked how how to do this in a fairly tidy way, again leveraging the new stat_manual() from ggplot2, and gganimate.

When Pygmalion carved Galatea from ivory, he fell so deeply in love with his creation that he begged Aphrodite to bring her to life. The goddess, moved by his devotion, granted his wish. ¹ It’s a beautiful myth about art, obsession and the blurring lines between creation and creator. What the myth doesn’t tell us is whether Galatea charged a monthly subscription fee. ¹ Ovid, Metamorphoses , Book 10, 243-297.

Warning: This article is divided into two parts but both have detailed descriptions of sexual violence in the book and TV series, Rivals. In episode one of the 2024 television period drama Rivals, middle-aged Lizzie Vereker (Katherine Parkinson) tells her new 20-year-old neighbor, Taggie O’Hara (Bella Maclean), “It’s 1986.

When the creation of the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham was agreed, at a meeting of the Board of Management on 17 November 1969, it was done so with a view to history.

AI-generated genomes, R news for my posit::conf() FOMO, biosecurity, mirror life, teaching and AI, ELSI for AI, in defense of CRAN, Anthropic Economy Index, OpenAI report on how people use ChatGPT

Die Nachnutzung der eigenen Publikation kann möglicherweise problematisch werden, wenn die Publikation bei einem Journal eingereicht wurde und dieses Nutzungsrechte daran erwirbt. Welche urheberrechtlichen Möglichkeiten Forschende bei der Nachnutzung der eigenen Publikation oder Forschungsdaten haben, wird hier erklärt.

DOI 10.60804/80tg-6d89 With Elisabeth Shook  The Data Citation Corpus aggregates data citations from multiple sources, and one of our areas of interest is to expand its disciplinary coverage. Through a collaboration between Make Data Count and ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research), citations for social science datasets...

An idea for a masters-level class or journal club alternative: “Where are they now?” but for big splash papers published in the 2000s. Take a few papers published around 20 years ago, then follow what happened subsequently.