1. Guest Post — Open Research in Practice: Moving from Why to How?
Open Research practices and outputs face a number of tensions between initial intentions and unforeseen consequences. Our questions about Open Research are also changing — from “why” to “how” — amidst growing awareness that the required skill sets, both technical and social, are not yet part of the standard training programs for researchers. This guest post is authored by Fiona Murphy, Nicky Agate, Amy Price, and Stephanie Hagstrom, members of the Steering Committee for FSCI, in The Scholarly Kitchen Blog. In this post, the authors discuss how does one learn about Open Research if you actually want to practice. How do you balance effort with effect? How do you discover and validate the standards that are being adopted by your communities?
The blog post says (quote): Consider, for example, the questions and challenges that early career researchers face as they critique a distinguished professor’s work while conducting an open peer review. How do they balance the need for research integrity and rigorous review without career-ending consequences? How do we protect reviewers who review in good faith only to be raked through the coals on social media, while the perpetrators are funded and their work is published...........(Unquote)
The full entry can be read Here.
2. Increasing open access publications serves publishers’ commercial interests
Over the past 20 years, there has been a push to make journals freely available to anyone with an internet connection. In response, research funders have announced open access policies in the United States, Canada, Australia, South America and Europe. Shaun Khoo, Postdoctoral fellow, Université de Montréal in her post in The Conversation, looks at how open access is affecting the publishing habits of researchers.
The blog post says (quote): a fully open access world with our current publishing ecosystem would give academics the choice of paying more to publish in higher-ranked but more expensive journals, or risk their careers hoping that institutions and funders will be satisfied with them publishing in ‘value’ journals. It’s an easy choice when you’re on a short-term fellowship or contract, even if research and the taxpayers who fund us are the long-term losers...........(Unquote)
The full entry can be read Here.
3. Better Metadata Could Help Save The World!
Widely available high-quality, up-to-date, complete metadata could significantly speed up the dissemination of scholarly research. Metadata 2020 is working to make this a reality. Learn how and why in this post by Alice Meadows in The Scholarly Kitchen Blog.
The blog post says (quote): Per the FAIR principles, “Metadata and data should be easy to find for both humans and computers. Machine-readable metadata are essential for automatic discovery of datasets and services.” Building on this, the Metadata 2020 project group on Best Practices and Principles has developed a set of draft principles, which were recently released for community comment..........(Unquote)
The full entry can be read Here.
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