Blogs selected for Week August 13 to August 19, 2018
1. To move towards a more open science, we must free the data Data sharing is a key principle of open science, and research funders are increasingly including this as a condition of grant awards. Despite this, Jessica Couture, in her post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, reports on research that found […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week August 6 to August 12, 2018
1. Metadata 2020: a community collaboration to advance metadata for scholarly communications Metadata 2020 is a collaboration of scholarly communications stakeholders working towards richer, connected, reusable, and open metadata for all research outputs. Clare Dean, in her post in the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog, explains what the collaboration’s goals are, what common problems […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week July 30 to August 5, 2018
1. Societal Impact or, Meet the New Metric, Same as the Old Metric Funders are increasingly demanding measurements of “real world” impact from researchers. But while the idea of measuring real world impact makes sense, objectively measuring it is not a simple or straightforward process, and it raises some red flags about falling into the […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week July 23 to July 29, 2018
1. Open science is all very well but how do you make it FAIR in practice? Open science is about increasing the reuse of research, and making sure that publicly funded research is accessible to all. Key to achieving this is adhering to FAIR principles: ensuring the findings and data behind research results are findable, […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week July 16 to July 22, 2018
1. Hipster Antitrust and Structural Dominance – What Is a Monopoly Now? The term “monopoly” gets thrown around in scholarly publishing with relative ease and abandon. Calling something a monopoly has been misleading in many cases, but the new economy may require a complete rethinking of the anti-competitiveness created by intermediaries at scale, notes Kent […]
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