Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today’s post features Natascha Chtena, a postdoctoral fellow and research coordinator for the Value of Openness, Inclusion, Communication, and Engagement for Science in a Post-Pandemic World (VOICES) project at the ScholCommLab.
Background: Russian Academic Excellence Project 5top100 The Russian Academic Excellence Project 5top100 is a Russian excellence initiative in higher education that ran from 2013 to 2020. The aim of the initiative was to place five Russian universities in the top 100 of global university rankings. The goal was not achieved;
In 2019 researchers at Simon Fraser University set out to catalogue the world’s scholarly publishing platforms. They restricted themselves to open source projects, and yet still identified over 50 projects to produce and host scholarly journals and books. The platforms range from established (like Open Journal Systems) to fledgling (like Rebus Ink), and everything in between.
Since 2020, twelve organizations signed on to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). It’s not a meagre list of organizations either: CrossRef, ROR, Europe PMC, and many more. Today, Liberate Science joins the POSI posse (their words) with our initial evaluation of ResearchEquals.
This is a transcript of the interview with Kaitlin Thaney (Season 2, Episode 9). Listen to the podcast on Anchor. The transcript is slightly edited for readability and available under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Chris Hartgerink: Hello and welcome to the final episode of the second season of the Open Update. For Liberate Science, I'm your host, Chris Hartgerink.
Das „Gemeinsames Vokabular für Publikations- und Dokumenttypen“ wurde im März 2022 in einer neuen Version veröffentlicht und damit an die aktuellen Entwicklungen angepasst. In einem Blogbeitrag können Sie diese Anpassungen noch einmal nachlesen. Zudem wird im Herbst diesen Jahres eine neue Version des DINI-Zertifikats erscheinen. Grund genug die Neuigkeiten in einem Webinar vorzustellen und der Community Raum für Fragen einzuräumen.
For most liberal democracies, scientific expertise is an important ingredient of political decision-making. Scientific forecasts and assessments of, for example, poverty or social mobility, the impact of exhaust fumes on public health or the risks of viral outbreaks, help governments to weigh arguments and decide on policy measures. But how exactly does scientific knowledge make its way into politics?
This is a transcript of the interview with Meng Liu and Shilaan Alzahawi from the FORRT project (Season 2, Episode 8). Listen to the podcast on Anchor. The transcript is slightly edited for readability and available under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Chris Hartgerink: Welcome back to the second season of the Open Update. For Liberate Science, I'm your host Chris Hartgerink.
In June 2022, the Council of the European Union gave the green light for a European Agreement on research assessment reforms to go ahead. Plans for this initiative were proposed in a European Commission scoping report in 2021.
Für die anstehende Reform des WissZeitVG kommen immer mehr Vorschläge aus allen Bereichen der Wissenschaft zusammen. Längere Promotionsverträge, zwingender Institutions-Wechsel und eine große Portion Planwirtschaft – alles dabei! Ein Überblick.