Yesterday I started registering DOIs for all Front Matter blog posts. I have registered 100 blog posts by now, and will have completed the registration process for all 450 blog posts on Monday. The DOIs are registered with Crossref which Front Matter joined in August. The blog posts are registered as posted content, and this is done via the metadata in schema.org format exposed on each blog page.
Die Pandemie führt vor, wie wichtig der digitale Zugang zu Kultur und Wissenschaft ist. Seit kurzem sind die Bestände der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung und die Akten der Nürnberger Prozesse digitalisiert und offen zugänglich – und zeigen damit auch die Schattenseiten kulturellen Erbes. iRights.info stellt die Projekte vor.
In der Wahlnacht waren Inhalte des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks nicht zur Nachnutzung freigegeben. Der Privat-Sender „Bild TV“ übernahm trotzdem Passagen aus dem Programm von ARD und ZDF – ohne vorherige Erlaubnis. Jenseits des Skandals stellt sich damit die Frage: Warum sind diese Inhalte eigentlich nicht unter Creative Commons lizenziert?
Six years ago, Juan Pablo Alperin and Stefanie Haustein sat down at a bar in Amsterdam after a full day of participating in a conference. They came for a drink and an opportunity to connect over shared interests, but they left with an ambitious plan that would change both of their careers. On the backs of beer napkins, a project aimed at understanding the societal impact of research with the help of altmetrics started to take shape.
More than 200 health journals today published an editorial calling for urgent action to keep average global temperature increases below 1.5°C, halt the destruction of nature, and protect health. The editorial can be read for example here (published under a CC-BY Open Access license), and the full list of participating journals can be found here. The COVID Pandemic is currently taking up all our attention.
Announcing User’s Manual, a newsletter for new writing.
On August 19, GitHub announced software citation support in GitHub repositories. Citation information provided by users (using a CITATION.cff YAML file in the root directory of the default branch) is parsed and made available as bibtex file or formatted citation, currently supporting the APA citation style.
ARC Chief Executive Officer, Professor Sue Thomas, has welcomed the approval by the Minister for Education and Youth, the Hon Alan Tudge MP of $83 million in funding through the ARC’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme.
Members of the National Committee for Earth Sciences of the Australian Academy of Science are deeply concerned by the systematic reduction in staff members in geosciences departments over the last year in Australia.
One hundred researchers will receive Australian Government funding to focus on finding solutions for key industry challenges and training the next generation of researchers under the ARC Future Fellowships scheme.