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.

Developing an R package using the OpenAI Codex agent in Positron

This post was originally published by Marion Paulhac on the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) Community Forum here.

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.

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!

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.

In this tutorial, we shall prepare a figure using DensToolKitViewer 2.1.0 (or later) to select the viewing angle of the molecule, for whenever the default view isn’t the optimal viewpoint or to get various for comparison.

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.

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.

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.

De 25/08 a 29/08 de 2025 acontece a IX Semana das Psicologias da UFF – IHS – RPS. O realce em “das Psicologias” atesta não apenas a diversidade e riqueza das psicologias, mas sobretudo...