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Dull Analogue PastPleurocoelusCiências da Terra e do AmbienteInglês
Publicados in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

In 1962, Richard Frank Kingham — a student at Woodward School Washington, D.C. — wrote a four-page paper, with three further pages of line drawings, about the Early Cretaceous sauropod Astrodon (Kingham 1962). It was published in the Proceedings of the Washington Junior Academy of Sciences (which to no-one’s great surprise does not seem to […]

OA TakeawaysInformationsbudgetsOA Datenpraxis (Projekt)Open Access KostenmonitoringOpen-Access-TransformationOutras ciências sociaisAlemão
Publicados in Open Access Brandenburg
Autor Ben Kaden

Das wissenschaftliche Publizieren und damit auch das Open-Access-Publizieren ist für die Hochschulen nicht zuletzt eine finanzhaushälterische Angelegenheit. Lange Zeit war das Thema auf die Erwerbungsmittel der Bibliotheken für Subskriptionen von Zeitschriften, später auch Datenbanken, und Bücher gut eingrenzbar.

CommunityCrossrefMetadata AwardsCiências da Computação e da InformaçãoInglês
Publicados in Crossref Blog
Autores Frederick Atherden, Amanda French

eLife recently won a Crossref Metadata Award for the completeness of its metadata, showing itself as the clear leader among our medium-sized members. In this post, the eLife team answers our questions about how and why they produce such high-quality open metadata.

NewsletterCiências da Computação e da InformaçãoInglês
Publicados in rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Autor The rOpenSci Team

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗Community call: “R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages” On Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC, we’ll host a community call about the R-multiverse, starring Will Landau!

AquilopsArtDinoCon 2025Mark WittonNatalia JagielskaCiências da Terra e do AmbienteInglês
Publicados in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Where all discerning paleontologists buy road trip junk food. This one is in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. I just got back home after a solid four weeks on the road, an epic peregrination from SoCal to Oklahoma to England to Oklahoma to SoCal. DinoCon 2025 was embedded mid-trip, which is why I haven’t gotten anything about it posted before now. I love driving across the American West.

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Publicados in Netzwerk Fluchtforschung
Autor Daniele Saracino

Die EU und ihre Mitgliedstaaten erlebten im Sommer 2015 den bis dahin größten Zuzug von Flüchtenden ihrer Geschichte. Lösungsansätze, die diese Herausforderung auf Basis des Solidaritätsprinzips mit einer möglichst fairen Verteilung der Verantwortlichkeiten innerhalb der EU angehen sollten, waren nicht umsetzbar.

ChEMBLCheminformaticsChemoinformaticsChemistryBibliometricsCiências NaturaisInglês
Publicados in Biopragmatics
Autor Charles Tapley Hoyt

I’ve recently submitted an article to the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) describing chembl-downloader, a Python package for automating downloading and using ChEMBL data in a reproducible way. In this post, I use chembl-downloader to show how the number of compounds, assays, activities, and other entities in ChEMBL have changed over time.

Thought PiecesHumanidadesInglês
Publicados in Upstream

In my last blog post for Upstream, I noted that there were some potential issues with, and good alternatives to, the NIH plan to cap grant spending on article processing charges. One of my suggestions was that the NIH put its plan out for public comment so they could draw from community input in their final policy. Thankfully, the NIH did just that and the public can submit comments on the plan until 15 September 2025.