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Wednesday June 10 has been designated a day of action in STEM and in academia in support of Black lives. Non-Black, non-Indigenous people in STEM and academia are invited to dedicate their working hours to formulating a plan of ACTION for how to join the struggle to ensure that Black lives matter.
Both hashtags trended on social media over the weekend and speak to pervasive racial inequity.
Acknowledge the history. Revise your work. Refuse to be complicit.
We are pleased to announce the next OASPA webinar which will explore recent steps to increase efficiency and speed in the publication of COVID-19 research (Wednesday 24th June 2020, 4.00 pm Central European Time).
High-level politician suggests academy deserves retribution for publishing unwelcome COVID-19 estimates.
News coverage of scientific studies can be misleading. Here's how to tell the good from the bad.
Providing open access to digitised collections has spurred creativity and research worldwide - so why are the UK's flagship museums so slow on the uptake?
Communicate your support for #BlackLivesMatter: Dos, don'ts, and resources.
Easy-to-understand comic explains how rigorous science is peer-reviewed and published. Hint: it's not via YouTube.
A platform to analyze the relationship between the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemic and the information dynamics on social media.
Senior Anthropology professors Theodore C. Bestor, Gary Urton, and John L. Comaroff have weathered allegations of sexual harassment, including some leveled by students. But affiliates said gender issues in the department stretch beyond them.
How can repositories contribute to their FAIR share? A Virtual workshop on June 1st about Equity and democratization of knowledge.
The testing project is proving to be a national model, because of the challenges the organizers overcame and what it showed about the spread of Covid-19.
Possibly the only thing spreading faster than COVID-19 is the pseudoscience about COVID-19.
The Opendata.ch 2020 Forum will explore New Data Narratives, diving in deep collaborative work, and aiming high!
Major scholarly publishers have invested substantially in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.
Join this month's webinar to hear what could be done to reform the conference experience for both organisers and participants.
Swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and Open Access publishing in Switzerland.
Data sharing and COVID-19- the pandemic is changing the way scientists work and talk to each other. The Early Career Researchers advisory board at Wellcome Open Research discuss how COVID-19 is changing science.
Community labs want to make everything from insulin to prostheses. Will traditional scientists accept their efforts?
There will be no face-to-face lectures in the next academic year due to coronavirus, the university says.
VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions.
While Moderna blitzed the media, it revealed very little information - and most of what it did disclose were words, not data.
From July 2022 only publishers who adhere to the newly approved Plan S price transparency frameworks will be eligible to access funds from cOAlition S members.
The hunt is on for better ways to collect and search pandemic studies
