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MIT Libraries Develop Innovative Open Access Agreements with PLOS

MIT Libraries Develop Innovative Open Access Agreements with PLOS

The MIT Libraries has negotiated two new open-access publishing agreements with the nonprofit publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) that allow all MIT authors to publish in all PLOS titles with no publishing fees.

How Has the Pandemic Influenced Public Attitudes Toward Science?

How Has the Pandemic Influenced Public Attitudes Toward Science?

Join Knowable Magazine for a conversation about public attitudes to science, how they have changed in the past year, and the role that group identities play in shaping people's views.

Quotas to Promote Gender Equality in Research

Quotas to Promote Gender Equality in Research

Gender equality is a prime concern of the Swiss National Science Foundation. To offer additional visibilty to women in academia, it is introducing gender quotas in its evaluation bodies with immediate effect.

Open Science Podcasts: 7 +3 Tips for Your Ears

Open Science Podcasts: 7 +3 Tips for Your Ears

Podcasts were among the media winners of last year. Scientific podcasts in particular enjoyed great popularity. In fact, there are also some that deal specifically with Open Science. This article has 7 + 3 tips.

How Is Science Clicked on Twitter? Click Metrics for Bitly Short Links to Scientific Publications

How Is Science Clicked on Twitter? Click Metrics for Bitly Short Links to Scientific Publications

Study analyses the click metrics of over 1.1 million links referring to Web of Science publications.

Don't Believe the Hype: Repositories Are Critical for Ensuring Equity, Inclusion and Sustainability in the Transition to Open Access

Don't Believe the Hype: Repositories Are Critical for Ensuring Equity, Inclusion and Sustainability in the Transition to Open Access

The rhetoric of some scholarly publishers lately has shown a troublesome trend with respect to Open Access repositories (often referred to as Green OA).

Science Barometer 2020: Starting Points for Open Science?

Science Barometer 2020: Starting Points for Open Science?

What image does the public in Germany have of science and research? The Science Barometer is dedicated to answering this question. We have taken a look at the results of the most recent survey from an Open Science perspective.

January SciComm Challenge - Let's Talk About Creativity in Science!

January SciComm Challenge - Let's Talk About Creativity in Science!

What better way to start 2021 than with a new science communication challenge! This month's challenge should help get your creative juices flowing… writing (or visualizing!) a time when creativity, imagination or subconscious thought was important to your scientific or artistic work!

Horizon Europe Will Be Open to UK Researchers from the Start

Horizon Europe Will Be Open to UK Researchers from the Start

European Commission encourages applications from, and collaboration with, UK-based researchers.

Portugal's National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology Joins COAlition S

Portugal's National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology Joins COAlition S

cOAlition S is pleased to announce that the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (FCT) is the latest national funding agency for science, research, and technology to join the coalition and demonstrate its commitment to the realisation of full and immediate Open Access. Portugal's forward-thinking approach on Open Access is widely acknowledged across Europe […]

Enabling the Future of Academic Research with the Twitter API

Enabling the Future of Academic Research with the Twitter API

Today, we're excited to launch the Academic Research product track on the new Twitter API.

Journal Checker Tool: Plan S Compliance Validator

Journal Checker Tool: Plan S Compliance Validator

JCT enables researchers to check whether they can comply with their funders Plan S aligned OA policy based on the journal, the funder and the institution affiliated with the research to be published.

New Public Data File: 120+ Million Metadata Records

New Public Data File: 120+ Million Metadata Records

2020 wasn't all bad. In April of last year, we released our first public data file. Though Crossref metadata is always openly available--and our board recently cemented this by voting to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)--we've decided to release an updated file.

Academia in Motion: a Different Form of Recognition and Reward

Academia in Motion: a Different Form of Recognition and Reward

A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria would improve the systems of recognition and rewards in academia.

Open Science in the Horizon Europe Funding Programme: What to Expect?

Open Science in the Horizon Europe Funding Programme: What to Expect?

In this forward-looking spirit, sharing information about the coming EU funding framework seems to be an appropriate topic for the last DARIAH Open post in 2020. As such, this entry is having a look at how Open Science is taking shape in the nascent Horizon Europe funding programme for 2021-2027, what to expect and what are the major changes compared to the previous funding programme, Horizon 2020.