Over de zin van impact en het impact meten

I’m guest editing a special issue for the Journal of Electronic Publishing on open research for the humanities and social sciences. The call for papers is below: Call for papers: Special Issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Impact of Apex Predators on Eastern Washington Residents Understanding the Role of Apex Predators Apex predators, being at the top of the food chain, play a crucial role in maintaining the health and balance of ecosystems. Their presence and behavior can have significant ripple effects throughout their habitat. But what does this mean for the residents of Eastern Washington?

The latest update of the Rogue Scholar science blog archive this week improves the finding and tracking of science blog post references, both on the website and in the API. This update again takes advantage of functionality of the InvenioRDM repository platform, with some minor tweaks. InvenioRDM is based on the DataCite metadata model, which treats references as a subset of related identifiers, with more than 20 different relation types.

Identifying researchers and their affiliated organizations uniquely and unambiguously facilitates connecting contributions these researchers have made to the growing understanding of the Mo’orea Ecosystem and others like it around the world.

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. Beyond Journal Articles: How PID Graphs Could Revolutionize Research Reporting In today’s academic landscape, journal articles are the primary way researchers share their work.

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.