This note accompanies a dataset that I uploaded to Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15824274). My goal in creating this dataset is to link data created on the Barcode of Life Data Systems to the DOIs for those datasets, and then to link those data DOIs to DOIs for the papers (if any) that created those datasets, and/or cited them.
So far we have dived into the historical origins of the peer review concept and the earliest attempts at an external referee system used by the Royal Society. Even in this early exploration, we have encountered issues with peer review that persist today. The first part of this series concluded with the beginnings of peer review, but we still hadn’t arrived at peer review as we know it in the 21st century.
PKP is pleased to announce the launch of collaborations with SFU Master of Publishing and Lifelong Learning for new open publishing courses, and seeks community feedback. This just in! PKP is launching a new collaboration with Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Master of Publishing (MPub) program and Lifelong Learning.
por Jeremías Silva El 17 de octubre de 1946 el General Juan Perón, electo presidente en febrero de ese año, visitó el principal establecimiento carcelario de Argentina: la Penitenciaria Nacional ubicada en la Capital Federal. Ese día se conmemoraba el primer aniversario de la masiva movilización de trabajadores que lo catapultó al poder.
Noel Swanson reviews The Non-fundamentality of Spacetime, by Kian Salimkhani
Ten days ago, I reported on a new deployment strategy for the InvenioRDM repository software. Using the Kamal deployment tool, I deployed both a staging instance of the Rogue Scholar service and a demo instance of the InvenioRDM Starter package. Over the last few days I have updated both instances to the latest release candidate (v13.0.0rc3) of the next major InvenioRDM software version. The upgrade was fairly painless.
karyoploteR is an R package that’s been in Bioconductor for nearly a decade. It lets you create linear chromosomal representations of any genome with genomic annotations and experimental data plotted along them. Bioconductor : https://bioconductor.org/packages/karyoploteR/ Tutorial : https://bernatgel.github.io/karyoploter_tutorial/ Paper : Bernat Gel & Eduard Serra. (2017).
Wir haben eine wichtige Änderung zu verkünden: Aus dem Open-Access-Büro Berlin wird das Open Research Office Berlin – Landeskoordinierungsstelle für offene Wissenschaft in Berlin . Die Umbenennung ist Teil eines größeren Prozesses, den wir in diesem Blogpost näher darstellen. Zur Landesinitiative Open Research in Berlin Bereits seit dem Jahr 2020 läuft die Landesinitiative für Open Research in Berlin.
Introduction A major update to ggplot2 (version 4.0.0) is expected around mid-to-late July 2025 . It brings a significant internal change, replacing most of the S3 backend with the newer S7 object system. While this improves long-term maintainability and extensibility, it may break Bioconductor packages that depend on ggplot2, especially those that customise how plots are built or styled.
To address the growing scale and complexity of scholarly data, we’ve launched a new data science function at Crossref. In April, we were excited to welcome our first data scientists, Jason Portenoy and Alex Bédard-Vallée, to the team. With their arrival, the Data Science team is now fully up and running. In this blog post, we’re sharing our vision and what’s ahead for data science at Crossref.
New US National Academy of Sciences Report reveals the complex web of societal vulnerabilities that could amplify nuclear war’s devastating impact TLDR/Summary The US National Academy of Sciences has just released a comprehensive report on the “Environmental Effects of Nuclear War”. This work extends analysis beyond physical damage to examine impacts on human social and economic systems.